The dam, as always with these spirited little prong-bucks, made a good fight, and kept the assailants at bay; yet I think they would have succeeded in the end, had I not interfered.

Coyotes are bold and cunning in raiding the settler's barn-yards for lambs and hens; and they have an especial liking for tame cats.

If there are coyotes in the neighborhood a cat which gets into the habit of wandering from home is surely lost.
Though, I have never known wolves to attack a man, yet in the wilder portion of the far Northwest I have heard them come around camp very close, growling so savagely as to make one almost reluctant to leave the camp fire and go out into the darkness unarmed.

Once I was camped in the fall near a lonely little lake in the mountains, by the edge of quite a broad stream.

Soon after nightfall three or four wolves came around camp and kept me awake by their sinister and dismal howling.