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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 627

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p 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… … 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…

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