GREYBOUNDS FEAR COYOTES

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 348, 8 January 1903, Page 3

GREYBOUNDS FEAR COYOTES

bfejggaeaewtaMe fcoao of Oomma* A* wa «fc»4 Sc OHwwtM f ® gSSySkmad Is not ato&ps brave. |»d on® thing be k> particularly fcfmid of i« an animal rwpeoted by no one-— an animal that clinks along In a cowardly manner and about which no writer hew ft* yet found anything to admire. Why thle is I do not know, cay* a writer In Nature, for the animal of which I apeak Memo to me a harmless denizen .of the great western hills and valleye, never doing any real wrong and cd(htog much to the wild picturesquenes* of the country. I mean the ooyote. And yet of the coyote, the poor, unloved, cowardly coyote, the greyhound is afraid. He will ran down..# rabbit, seize him by the throat and with a jerk break his neck, end then carry him to his master. But let a coyote come in eight, end the greyhoundi loses his courage. As long ae the coyote, keeps running the hound will run after him, but as eoon as the coyote stops short and faces about, the greyhound turns and runs away a« fast ae he can. A coyote never doee more serious harm than to prowl about the village streets at night in the winter in search of meat, which some unwary housekeeper may havo left outside. '4.1 the slightest growl he flees, , m