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doctorin' the sheep for the scab, and had them 

 all in a corral, and at night coulc^ hear them 

 surging back and forth from one side to the 

 other. The sheep men say coyotes never get 

 inside a corral to get the sheep, but get close 

 to the outside. When they get inside an in- 

 closure they haven't much show to get out 

 with anything — they're a sensible animal. But 

 they're awful bold in the daytime when the 

 sheep are out in the herd. They'll run up to 

 one and cut its throat. Then there's a grand 

 scatterin'," he concluded, as he reached for 

 his hat, and went out to hitch the bucking 

 broncho. So writes Miss Merriam. 



The prong-horned antelope is the swiftest 

 animal on the plains, and yet the coyotes 

 catch a good many of them just by running 

 them down. This sounds like a paradox, yet 

 it is quite true, and is explained by the cun- 

 ning of the wolves and the habits of the 

 antelope. 



A single coyote which undertook to run 



down a single antelope would get tired and 



hungry before he accomplished much, but 



when two or three coyotes are together it is 



quite a different thing. The coyotes do not 



all run after the antelope together. They 



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