Wolves and Wolf Nature 



largest. At the crack of the rifle it started, 

 and ran as fast as it could for about fifty yards 

 and rolled over dead. The other followed it 

 for a few yards and then turned off up the hill, 

 and when it saw its mate roll over it stopped. 

 I shot at it, and as I did not make the right 

 allowance for distance, undershot and broke 

 one of its legs. I put my dog after it and he 

 soon brought it to bay, and I had the satisfac- 

 tion of killing it. 



" On another occasion I was coming down 

 from a neighbor's, and when near the bottom 

 on the Columbia I noticed a couple of coyotes 

 hunting through the grass and low bushes ; 

 they had their tails up like dogs, and seemed 

 to be as busy. 



" Soon they were joined by two more, and 

 all had their tails up, and as they had not dis- 

 covered me I waited to see what they were 

 after. I never saw dogs hunt through a flat 

 more diligently than they did, and it was very 

 amusing to see them with their tails up. I 

 think they were hunting chipmunks. Not 

 having anything to shoot with, I started on, 

 and when they saw me they trotted off up the 

 gulch, but lowered their tails, coyote-like. 



" I have often been told by white men and 

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