Show M va COYOTE strange fight in a city pail BETWEEN UNLIKE FUES how a dee from the jaws of death fine victory pete the bigelk out in the park says the san francisco examiner distinguished himself the other night notwithstanding petes ion residence among civilization he is always savage at this period of the year for a week or more he has been as full of fight as a candidate is of promises nor ai pete particular as to the character or quality of his combat As long as it is a fight he is satisfied he has tried to stir up a muss with some of the deer that share the inclosure with him and his family hut though they have some lively battles among themselves they evidently consider that pete is tho john L sullivan of the crowd and pay no attention to his challenges nor can be force them to a fight whenever bo charges on them the bucks dodge him in the brush and owing to their lesser bulk easily avoid him petes long legged offspring born some months ago has rather a hard time of it these days but he hides himself among the bushes and so evades his parents irritation up to night before last the best fight that pete could get up was with one of the fence posts he butted and pawed away at this until it looked as if hed smash tle fence fortunately the big blade tail buck showed up and took petes attention from the post and by the time he had chased the buck three or four times around the paddock peto had forgotten about the post but night before last pete got a chance and showed what was in him though he is out of temper with his family and indeed all abo other tenants of tho deer paddock ho nevertheless considers himself their guardian anda and a ill always savagely resent an attack on even bis long legged son pete was standing in the moonlight at the eastern end of the paddock when a little doe away off at the other end of the inclosure gave a loud bleat of alarm one of the park policemen saw her spring out of the brush and to his astonishment observed that a coyote was clinging to bar throat he started to her as fast as ho could but pete was ahead of him the elk gave one loud answering call a sound between the roar of a bull and the baa of a goat with more of the roar than the baa in it and then tore off to the rescue of the doe according to the one spectator pete laid his horns over against his back and hardly seemed to touch the ground after the first jump the coyote held on to the does throat until pete was within a dozen yards of him then ho let go and started for the fence he reached the halings palings pa lings but could not get through and the now thoroughly enraged elk overtook him lifting his front lega with amazing swiftness pete brought his sharp hoofs down squarely on the intruders back it must have broken the coyotes spine tor no made no further attempt to escape but lay there struggling yelping and snapping he got one hold on petes fore leg but the elk got his big horns to reinforce his hoof and after some very lively thrashing around he broke the coyotes hold then pete went in to finish his adversary hoofs and horns worked so quickly that tha eyes could not follow them once pete raised the prowler clean off the ground with his anglers antlers and tossed him ten feet in the air but tho crippled coyote was no coward for a wonder he lighted fighting and somehow got a grip on petes haunch then there was lively work the was safe from petes anglers antlers ant lers but the big elk had his kicking apparatus very handy and it was no time at all before he had knocked the coyote off him and sent him rolling down the slope to the middle of the paddock then the fight was finished peter gave two bounds down the slope and landed all four feet together on the hapless coyote that probably killed the marauder but pete by no means let up he pawed and kicked and gored the body until it was cut to pieces it was half an hour before the big elk quit mauling the carcass when he did he simply sounded another challenge of which there were of course no takers and then stalked haughtily around the paddock making bluffs at the bucks how the coyote got into the paddock is a mystery no break was to be found in the fence and it was evident that ho bould not get out when the big elk charged him there has occasionally been seen about the park an old weather beaten coyote that ordinarily kept well away from the more traveled localities though he has been seen at night drinking from tho water trough this is supposed to be the victim of petes hoofs and horns the doe that was attacked is a small weakly creature the feeblest in the paddock the coyote doubtless made a snap for its throat but only caught the skin these animals kill sheep by cutting the arteries in the neck and drinking the blood until the sheep is dead and the coyote thought that in the absence of mutton venison would not be bad |