Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-03-14
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THE FRISKY COYOTE.
Analyst Of his Points by One who has
studied Them.

studied Them.
The voice of the coyote bears almost
the same proportion to the coyote as a
mosquitoes bite does to a mosquito. In
each case the living organism Is imma-
terial, except as a vehicle. They say
there is only one thing that can imitste
a coyotes call, anI that is an Indian.
This seems 10 imply that an Indian must
be the more comprehensive sonGster of
| the two. Bat it is not 50, for conversely
there is only one thing can initiate an
Indian. al d that is coyote. The coy
ote s voice, moreover, has one pcculiarity
in which il gets ahead OF the Indian; it
does not echo. Ii used TO echo, but the
coyotes would not stand il. They hated
| to have it flung in their teeth that a
mere souIless atmospheric phenomenon
could keep even with them so one day
they got up early and set themselves to
beat the echo. Day was Just breaking
as the first coyote commenced the ever
ture, and when he left off ut dusk a sec
ond coyote took up the burden and sang
ill dawn. But the echo WAS still on
time. Twenty-three coyotes used them
selves up, and still the echo came up
smiling Every note was taken up rs it
fell due, and all drafts were cashed on
sight. When the eighty-seventh coyote
succumbed the echo was scarcely per-
ceptibly behind with the responses.
That exhausted the visible supply of
coyotes, so the first one went to the bat
again. This was too much for the echo.
1t broke its spirit When the second
, coyote relieved guard it was two bars, %
, cents behind. Bv dawn he was only at
the top CT the last page but one. An
! ether week increased the coyotes lead
5 to one hour and four furlongs Then the
: animals doubled up and by the middle
, of July, the echo was mauled beyond re-
cogniiioD. On the two hundred and
I ninety-third round the echo vent down
D without being touched, and the coyotes
claimed a foul. Since then the echo
y never troubles coyote. because he nev-
n er knows how many more there are back
8 of it. 1t is the same spirit of foolish
;. Jealousy which makes coyotes grow so
thin. They hate to have a shadow
:, keeping up with them.
II The main beauty of the covote's song
= is its numerousness. 1t is the only liv-
ing thing that can sing discord and it
is so proud of it that it never sings any
thing else. When coyote sits down TO
a a solo it starts witn the voice in the KEY
d Of B natural. After bar or two 1T
1t starts a second voice in ID sharp. Every
n few bars new voice falls into line. L
once undertook to count the number Of
~ KEYS in which one coyote can sing at a
% time First it sang rondel for twenty
r four voices. Then il took up simple
II figure. At the end of the first movement
had used up all the known keys and
e had reached w in the unknown. The
n second movement was comparatively
l. complicated, and could not invent al
m phabets quick enough 10 keep count.
You have heard dog hcwling at hand
y organ? Well. coyote is more like that
r, than anything / know like both, the
dog and the hand organ. | think the
10 music that it sings in one voice makes it
. so sad that it has to howl in another. A
y covote would be invaluable to a Wagner
D. ian Orct es sras .'.
f. The fist time ] saw coyote was when,
il sitting one day alone on the side of u
gulch in the Bitter Root mountains, l
'e heard pack OF coyotes in the far dis
a. lance, coming down the gulch. sat
L and listened to them as they drew near
er, and tried 10 count their voices.
There was an open piece of ground just
Ie under me- which they might have 10
II pass, and as they approached it, took a
~ long breath and got all my fingers ready
70 to count them on. Ii was not difiicdlt.
:, Reckoning all the straggers, camp fol
~ lowers, suffers and mules, there was
r Just one C vote in the pack, men, wo-
at men and children all told and The last
II, district heard from,
The lack did not se7 me. but trotted
ls. down toward the creek, as | supposed,
ie to drink. But it did not drink. 1t just
er sat down b. the water and wept. II
~ poured out its soul as the nightingale
b. does TO the gardens of Gul in their bloom
es 1t was the saCdest thing have heard,
OF ana I had lust covered the warbler with
'er Timotheus struck a loftier strain, aud
or the music mounted on wings OF jub la
ng ton to beat against the gates OF heaven.
as 1t was a sorg of great joy. and came
ou from a heart overflowing with thanks
a. giving.
tc' II was like abyss calling TO abyss, OF
Sc the music of the spheres when they &c
no a-ouir ng to the young eyed cherubim
1t was what DE Quincy heard in hi
us "Opium Dreams"-"The music ola grea
rt awakening and of infinite cavalcade
90 filing off, 1t was an uuhOly pael
are are chant, by full chorus of banshees.
me have heard full Chinese orchestra
ng- have heard Crow Indian war song
my have attended negro camp-meeting
no have heard charity school sing th
" " "Rock of Ages" But for lurid an
OF CHAOTIC inharmony / will back on
no. simple COYOTE on the rivers brm againS
the universe. 40 nos.
iee But the coyote has failings. There
no respect for Sabbath in its soul, and
se. "r, will, verify believe, rise on the day 4
oi' the great awakening with a ribal
snatch upon its liis. believe coyo
would make pun at its own mother
funeral" Nor has it sympathy With Il
he beauties Of nature. 1t will sit its
II. down in the central twilight OF the pl
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