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Identifier: stnicholasserial31dodg (find matches)
Title: St. Nicholas (serial)
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905
Subjects: Children's literature
Publisher: (New York : Scribner & Co.)
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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ishment. (To be continued.) Of course it is not. I say, how does it happen you know myname? How does it happen I know a great manythings? And what do you mean by the ladies andgentlemen who have accompanied you? You will soon find out, said Mme. Tus-saud. Come and see. THE COYOTE. By J. M. Gleeson. The coyote (ko-yote) is a most unpopularlittle beast, sharing, though to a greater degree,the general discredit attached to his more orless civilized brother, the yellow dog. As heprowls around a camp or lonely ranch-house,making night hideous with his shrill yap-yap-yapping, and on the lookout for anything goodto eat, from a leather bridle to a leg of lamb, He has neither the cunning of his smallcousin the fox, nor the speed and strength ofhis big cousin the wolf, but for all that, and inspite of constant persecution, he manages fairlywell to hold his own against the ill will of anunsympathetic world. In many of the Western States these animalsare still quite numerous, and when we remember
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A FAMILY OF COYOTES AT HOME. his reception is ever the same — hard words anda harder bullet, or more likely a little strych-nine. He will eat anything he can catch:mice, prairie-dog, prairie-chicken, and of coursethe scraps left over by the big gray wolf. Heis, in fact, a mere scavenger, but one whose ser-vices have not been found acceptable to man. that in a single family there may be from six toten little coyotes, we can readily understandwhy in the wilder sections of our country theydo not disappear altogether. It must keep Papa and Mama Coyote verybusy to care for their numerous family, for theyhave not only to be fed, and that requires con- 606 THE COYOTE. 607 stant foraging, but also guarded against innu-merable dangers. In captivity they are not always good pa-rents, and I saw one coyote that killed sevenout of her litter of eight. Perhaps she did notwish them to grow up in captivity. It wascurious, however, that she should have savedjust one. She was an anxious though not ov

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