Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1872-04-13
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AsHTABULA, OHIO, SATURDAY, APRIL l3, 1872.
The Cayote,

In his new book, Roughing It." Mark
Twain gives the following amusing des-
cription OF the Cayote, which will be
specially interesting TO all who have seen
this vicious animal prowling over the
Plains, or hanging round the camp at
night:
The cayote is a long, slim, sick and
sorry-looklng skeleton, with gray wolf.
skin stretched over it, tolerably busby
tail that forever Says down with des-
pairing expression of forsakenness and
misery, a furtive and evil eye, aud a long,
sharp face, with slightly lifted lip and
exposed teeth. He has general slink-
ing expression all over. The cayote is
living, breathing allegory of Want.
lie is dtiodys hungry. He is always
poor, ont OF luck and friendlcss. The
meanest creatures despise him, and even
/ the fleas would desert him for veloci-
| pede. lie is so spiritless and cowardly
that even while his exposed teeth are
| pretending threat, the rest of his face is
apologizing for it. And heis so homely !!
so scrawney, and ribby, AID coarse
haired, and pitiful. When he sees you
he lifts his lip and lets a flash of bis teeth
out, and then turns little out of the
course he was pursuing, depresses his
head bit, and strikes long, sott-footed
'lo' 'nro"gu the shGe'orush, Riahclng
oNer NE s"ouioer at you, rom 'iihe 20
/ time, till he is about out of easy pistol
| range, and then he stops and takes
liberal survey of you; he will trot fifty
| yards and then stop again-another fifty
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