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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



Photograph by William Henry 



A COEUE OE ROYAL ANCESTRY BECAME THE MASCOT OF AMERICAN SOLDIERS 



Before he "joined the army," this dog of blooded lineage bore the name of "Bum." Now he 

 answers to the more appropriate title of "Bullets." 



suit. But they were no match for him 

 in speed, and after floundering along in 

 his wake for less than half a mile they 

 stopped, turned round, and started back. 

 The coyote, who had been running eas- 

 ily only a few feet ahead of them, seemed 

 to be completely in touch with the situa- 

 tion. No sooner had the tired dogs 

 turned than he wheeled about, pitched 

 into the rear guard of the enemy, and 

 in a running counter attack decisively 



whipped all three of the hounds and 

 finally drove them back yelping into the 

 old house from which they had come. 



That didn't look like cowardice ; it 

 looked like good generalship. And it isn't 

 cowardice for an animal the size of a 

 coyote to run away from an animal the 

 size of a man, especially when the little 

 wolf knows that in some mysterious man- 

 ner his enemy can kill him when he is still 

 a quarter of a mile away. That's a com- 



