Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-07-14
NEVADA COYOTES.
The Gkiliful Way in which They RounA
Up q Herd OF j Tack Rabbits.

UP Herd OF Jack-haDDits.
you never saw the artistic way the
Nevada wolves would round up the
jack-rabbits, / suppose" remarked
Joseph Grandelmyer. the old-time Ne
vadan. ut Is the cleverest bit Of
strategy l ever heard Of There are
several kinds of wolves all through
the State, but the coyotes are by far
the plentiest. In the Humboldt,
Smoky and other valleys the coyotes
form in a military line, oftimes along
some old road. as l have most fire.
quently seen them, and thus system
atically go on regular drive.
'They stretch out over great area
Of country the coyotes being stationed
somewhere near mile apart. Olce
they get sight of a jack-rabbit his namo
is Dennis. He may take to the sage
brush and elude the coyotes for a
time Fifty or hundred coyotes can
thus in short time rake in terrible
lot of rabbits. If the coyotes arc
hungry 1t is about the rarest sport ono
can witness They go at the hunt with
so much ardor and with such perfect
system.
"a coyote on his own account can
usually forage successfully for food.
He is sly, like fox, and always with
an eye cut for No, l he generally has
his belly full and lots of fat sticking
to his ribs; but If the weather has been
bad and he gets separated from his
fellows on accommodating tour he
may have hard time of it.
I'm the sage brush jack rabbit can
generally manage to elude n coyote.
He can get in and out quicker, while
the coyote, being bigger, is delayed
by the brush and don't get in and out
like a rabbit.
But after q lot of hungry wolves
have held council of war and de-
cided to go on hunt it is time for
the rabbits to hunt their holes. There
Is always music in the air about that
time, and the weird bowls of the
wolves sound like distant reville.
1.-The rabbits seem to understand
the situation, too. and scamper hither
and thither over the plains and rolling
hills. 1t is not long, however, till the
wolves marshal their forces. They
begin by making wide detour over
the hills, lessening the size of the
circle as they advance. and holding
all the rabbits they get in as skillfully
as fisherman handles his seine.
The jack-rabbits are all of trem-
BILE when they see how their enemies
have them hedged about and JUMP
helplessly into the air and utter pitiful
cries. The wolves merely watch the
sides warily and look on vindictively
with tongues lolling out through theil
white teeth, and eyes sparkling, ex
pressive of the knowledge that they
viii soon have some fine eating.
"As the wolv es draw nearer together
the quick snap, snap of their jaws is
heard as they snip the Threats of theil
victims, and they fall dead from
loss OF blood. When ever,
rabbit is killed the coyotes 81
down on their launches to q very com
Portable banquet and never let VI
until they have taken aboard so niue,
rabbit meat that they can hardly stir
Then they slowly meander off to thei
homes, wherever they may be, and
there is lot of rabbit meat left, a
there may be. they put in an appear
ance again at stated intervals, unit
the whole is consumed.
"After lot of coyotes have had {
talk, so to speak, and decided to go o.
a hunt, they will sometimes 60 to
rough region, where they know tn
rabbits abound, and lay siege for ther
in another way Certain brigade
will Chamber upon the high rocks an
hill-tops surrounding canyon an
drive the game down into the depth
below, other relays of wolves havin
previously been placed at the entranC
and at the weak places. They often
times get great many into canyo
in this way and thus speedily fms
them. 1t is generally in the very earl,
morning that the coyotes sound thei
reveille and go after the rabbits, ~
on II.