Delaware State journal and statesman., 1869-06-11

A COYOTE CoNcERT.-A camp or blyouac
on the Plains can have no better safeguards
during the dark hours of night than that
winch is furnished unnsked by the coyotes
and gray wolves, that usually put in an ap-
pearance lust as the second or reflected sum
set tinge is fading from the higher clouds.
During the winter season night falls so
quickly on the Plalns that twilight hour is a
thing OF name rather than fact. The last OF
sunset is the commencement OF night. AT
this hour you may hear far in the distance
the quick bark of single coyote. mo-
ment after the yelplug of anumber OF wolves
answers this first call. Tho pack is assem-
bling rapidly, and by the time darkness has
shut out your view of the nearer surroun-
ings you will listen 10 a howlng-match-a
sort of preliminary trial oil voice, which in
variable denotes the surrounding of your
camp by the newcomers. This howl is
short, and seems 10 be executed by chosen
few. A silence Of few moments duration
follows. Then the whole band breaks out,
and the unearlhly noise which greets your
ear is second TO nothing in all the long cat
alogue OF noises. Kit Carson averred that
il was "only a little dispute as to which
coyote had, as the winner of the match, the
right to take the skates (steaks)" 1t is quite
impossible TO do full justice to this wolf
music. There is no racket known TO the IN
habitants OF the more civilized sections OF
our country which will compare with il. All
the felines in neighborhood would not
make NOISE which would begin 10 equal
wolf music. The hubbub to be heard ut a
Z session OF the Board OF Brokers is a faint
+ comparison Hideous as this wolf concert
y would seem to ears unused 10 it, there is no
9 more satisfactory lullaby to the habilual
! roamer over the Plains, ior in the language
Q of the section, "Ii any red-skin should take
i il under his scalp 10 look about camp, every
u cuss OF them coyotes would shut his trap ant
wake the fellers up with the quiet" AS tht
small hours of the night come on, a few o
= the wolves will steal into camp 10 secure
y edibles W hich have been careessly left within
d their reach. At times they are so bold a
3, to attempt the theft of haveTsack OF foo
3, upon which the head OF a sleeper is pilowed
0. but seldom if ever will they make any attacl
If upon the persons of the campers As dawl
Z, comes the bowling ceases, and majority o
N the coyotes betake themselves 10 their bur
(. rows. Those wolves which linger retire L
8, safe distance from camp, and these, squat
eT ted Ou their launches. like dogs, await the II
10 moval Of camp, hoping 10 secure few scrap
e. of food which may have thrown away o
oil abandoned. 1t is an old saying amon
es PlaInsman, "rlat the coyotes can smell
s, States felter, and then you will not see
60 coyote within rifle-shot OF camp" col
en- siderable experience goes with the Plains
Is, man to bear linn out in this assertion
IN estates fellers shoots at ary live thing
IN Jumps in their sight, whether it is any coui
al TO them or no." remarked an old hunte
a Possibly this waste of ammunition may,
he some extent, account for the supposed kee
INT scent of the coyotes. Theodore Il. Dd0i
eu in Hdrper's Mdgdzine.