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spotted one Mitch had a cord over the window in
the front seat which he would pull, opening a rear gate
to their cage & away they went. To see those five
beautiful dogs racing after the coyote was a real
picture & thrill. These dogs couldn't scent & had to
run entirely by sight. Sometimes they would come
to grief as they did watch where they were going as
one day the coyote came to an arroyo, dry [wash?]
the Coyote scrambled down a twelve foot bank
but the dogs tried to jump the soft wide ditch, they
all tumbled to the bottom & the coyote got away.
Coyotes are very smart & they will play dead after a
fight. Mitch dragged one to the car & he seemed
dead. We walked a little way from him & happening
to look back saw him stumbling off. Mitch caught
fifty one winter & he got a bounty as well as a price
for the hide.