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passed them, and ran around the corner, bark- 

 ing and growling and greatly excited. Two 

 or three times he ran about the house, but the 

 coyote had disappeared, and at last all hands, 

 much disappointed, went inside again. One 

 of the men, going to the window to see that it 

 was fastened, was astonished to see the coyote 

 lying up against the glass, just as he had seen 

 it a few moments before. The coyote had 

 evidently jumped down from the window, run 

 around the house, and when he came to the 

 window again had jumped up into it and 

 gone to sleep, as if nothing had happened. 



The strangest part of the story follows. 

 The dog was again thrown at the coyote, 

 which at once repeated its performance, again 

 completely baffling the dog, which lost all 

 trace of it. It seems clear from this that the 

 coyote, while smart enough to measure the 

 dog's intelligence, did not connect the attack 

 on him with the inside of the house, and prob- 

 ably did not know that the window had been 

 opened. Such matters as a window and the 

 inside of a house were, of course, quite outside 

 the range of his experience. The cowboys, 

 after this second attempt, being much im- 

 pressed by the coyote's smartness, decided 



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