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Ernest Thompson Seton
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  • I. The Cute Coyote 1
  • An Exemplary Little Beast, My Friend the Coyote3
  • The Prairie-dog Outwitted5
  • The Coyote's Sense of Humour 8
  • His Distinguishing Gift 11
  • The Coyote's Song 13
  • II. The Prairie-dog and His Kin 17
  • Merry Yek-Yek and His Life of Troubles 19
  • The Whistler in the Rocks 22
  • The Pack-rat and His Museum 23
  • A Free Trader 25
  • The Upheaver—The Mole-Gopher 27
  • III. Famous Fur-bearers—Fox, Marten, Beaver and Otter 29
  • The Most Wonderful Fur in the World 32
  • The Poacher and the Silver Fox 35
  • The Villain in Velvet—The Marten 47
  • The Industrious Beaver 48
  • The Dam 51
  • The Otter and His Slide 52
  • IV. Horns and Hoofs and Legs of Speed 55
  • The Bounding Blacktail 57
  • The Mother Blacktail's Race for Life 59
  • The Blacktail's Safety Is in the Hills 62
  • The Elk or Wapiti—The Noblest of all Deer 63
  • Stalking a Band of Elk 64
  • The Bugling Elk 66
  • Snapping a Charging Bull 69
  • The Hoodoo Cow 72
  • The Moose—The Biggest of all Deer 75
  • My Partner's Moose-hunt 76
  • The Siren Call 77
  • The Biggest of Our Game—The Buffalo 80
  • The Shrunken Range 81
  • The Doomed Antelope and His Heliograph 83
  • The Rescued Bighorn 85
  • V. Bats in the Devil's Kitchen 89
  • VI. The Well-meaning Skunk 95
  • His Smell-gun 98
  • The Cruelty of Steel Traps 99
  • Friendliness of the Skunk 100
  • Photographing Skunks at Short Range 101
  • We Share the Shanty with the Skunks 103
  • The Skunk and the Unwise Bobcat 104
  • My Pet Skunks

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

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