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by Indians that they have seen as many as 

 fifteen coyotes after one deer. This winter 

 while on a trip to Curlew I had to go down on 

 Kettle River, and I saw where six deer had 

 been caught by coyotes. I examined to see 

 whether any big wolves had been among them, 

 but did not see a track. An old Indian told 

 me that a few days before the coyotes had run 

 a deer down on to the ice and caught it, and 

 he heard it bleat, and he ran down, but when 

 he got there they had almost eaten it up." 



Accounts of how the coyote points the game 

 that it is hunting have often been published, 

 and one summer during haying time a good 

 example of this was seen by some of the hay- 

 makers at my ranch in Wyoming. 



The loaded hay wagon was coming back 

 from one of the meadows, when a coyote was 

 seen forty or fifty yards from the road appar- 

 ently on a stiff point. He was standing abso- 

 lutely still, his nose and tail straight out in a 

 line, and one forefoot lifted from the ground. 

 Just before him there was a very slight rise of 

 ground, but the men who were riding on top 

 of the load of hay could see over this, and saw 

 that he was pointing a prairie dog which was 

 feeding near its hole, just on the other side of 



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