Show how coyote pelts are captured coyotes are very wise the proverbial fox is a driveling draveling dri idiot by comparison they can not be steel trapped or done to death by dead fall or any familiar gin the only method is to poison them their pelts are valuable for robes and many men comoters coy oters 1 1 make a business of their collection every winter it is not felible fea aible to put the poison in a piece of meat as the victim would gulp it down lope off a matter of four or live five miles before he died and the coylter would never find him they take a pine beam eight or ten feet in length and six inches square at intervals intervale of two feet a hole is bored with a two inch auger say four inches deep A big kettle of tallow richly intermixed with arsenic is ia melted ladled out poured inta these holes and allowed to cool these hallowed tall owed beams are then placed around on the prairie for the pleasure and profit of the coyote that night some gray vagrant with nose dose held high and scouting up the wind smells up the tallow he draws near he announces the find by a yell of joy and begins to lick the tallow out of one of the augur holes other coyotes come into the game and each selecting a hole goes on his last debauch in the morning the coy oter comes out and skins them they never get ten rods from the tallow after they once find it ex jax |