Coyotes Sometimes Adroit

No cúter animal is íound ín the west than the coyote. The coyote is to the plainsman what a fox is to an eastern farmer, only the coyote is more in evidence, says Forest and Stream. A dog that had its principal sport chasing and otherwise worrying coyotes was led into ambush by one coyote and then set uopn by several other of the prairie wolves and alniost done to death. About 9 o'clock one night one of the coyotes carne to the kitchen door and howled aggravating at the dog, which thereupon set after the coyote full tilt. The coyote fled around the house, down to the corral and around the blacksmith shanty, the dog yelping after. Behind the shanty were other coyotes, six or seven of them, and all of them made for the dog in a way that made it feel lonely. The ranchman heard the fight and the dog's howls of pain, and grasping hls rifle started that way on the run, yelling as he went. The coyotes took a farewell nip apiece and fled, leaving a sore dog behind. Sl.uce then the dog as not been so mnc, interested as on former occasions in coyotes. It follows single coyotes vigorously, but the appearance of another sends it back as fast as it can run. The coyote likes badger flesh very much, but one coyote is not equal to a badger in a fight, consequently the coyote, when it meets a badger, has to resort to stratagem tlll id arrivés. The manner in which it does this ia intereating. "A few weeks ago," a writer says, "as I was riding along I saw a coyote and a badger. The coyote séemed to be playing with the badger. Hs would prance about it, flrst as if to bite it, then run off a little way, the badger followlng, evidently very angry. When the badger saw me it ran into lts hole, while the coyote went off forty or fifty yards and lay down, evidently knowing I had no gun with me. The coyote's device was evidently to tease and so keep the badger interested till another coyote happened along, when the badger would have been killed."