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and I have been obliged to shoot them all 

 before they were nine months old, though 

 they experienced the kindest treatment and 

 had plenty to eat, for they never could be 

 induced to accompany their master in his 

 wanderings, when they might have been on 

 short commons. Many persons have tried to 

 reclaim the cuyote to the second and third 

 generation, and all have failed as well as 

 myself. 



A remark made by an old Indian on the 

 subject struck me very much. " Why won't 

 these cuyotes bark like other dogs V I said 

 to him, pointing to one I was trying to re- 

 claim ; " and why do they only howl, and the 

 pups grunt V His answer was, " Now, look 

 at that dog — he cannot bark, and never will ; 

 for he is of a cuyote breed, and won't learn.'' 

 — " Not learn !" said I, " what do you mean T 

 — " No," he replied, '' not learn ; for, if he 

 was of an honest breed, he would bark, to 

 try and imitate his master, or at all events 

 the other dogs : but all barking proceeds from 

 dogs imitating their master's shouts." — " The 

 master shouts to frighten awa?/ cattle from 

 his maize-ground — the dog barks directly; 

 the master shouts to drive in his cattle to 

 the corral, and the dog barks also ; in short, 



