The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-08-02
CUNNING COYOTES.
Their Patience and Some of Thel
Other Peculiar rats.

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Other Peculiar Traits.
This is the coyote-Co-yo-tay, with
all the syllables, to the Mexican who
named him; "kiote" merely to the.
American wanderer who has come and
gone 80 often that he at last regards
himself a resident stockman and
farmer.
1t is this little beasts triangular Wis
age, his sharp nose fitted for the easy
Investigation of other peoples affairs,
his oblique green eyes, with their
squint of cowardice and perpetual
hunger, says the Outing Magazine, that
should have d place in the adornment
Of escutcheons. 1t is notorious that
the vicissitudes of his belly never
bring to him the fate upon whose
verge he always lives and that nothing,
but strychnine, and not always that,
will bring an end to his forlorn career.
AS his gray back moves slowly along
above he reeds and coarse grass and
he turns his head to look at YOU he
knows at once whether or not you
have with you a gun, and you cannot
know how he knows. Once satisfied
that you are unarmed, he will remain
near in spite Of any vocal relaone
strances and by and by may proceed
to interview you in a way that for un-
obtrusiveness might be taken as a
! model Of the art.
Lie down on the thick brown carpet
Of the wilderness and be still for twen-
ty minutes, and. watching him from
the corner Of your eye. you will see
that he has been Joined by others of
his brethren hitherto unseen. He
seems to lie curious to know. first, if
you gro dead ard. second. II Nv any
chanca-and he lives upon chances
there is anything else in your neigh
borhood that he might find eatable.
If YOU pass on with Indifference,
which is the usual way, he will sit
himself down upon his tail on the
nearest knoll and Ion hts red tongue
and leer at you as one With whom he
is half inclined to claim acquaintance.
He looks and acts then so much like a
gray dog that one is inclined to whistle
to him. Make any hostile demonstra-
ton, and he will move a little farther
and sit down again.
If by any means YOU manage to Oh
fend him deeply at this j%uncture. the
chances are that he and his comrades
may retire still farther and then bark
ceaselessly until they have hooted you
out of the neighborhood. That night
he and some of his companions may
come and steal the straps from your
saddle, the meat from the frying pan
and politely clean the pan-and even
the boots from beside your lowly bed
A Fiery Speech.
William O'Brien in his "Recollec.
tions' gives this picture Of Timothy
Healy's first appearance in parliament:
IA quarter of an hour after he took his
seat as member for Wexford he started
up to make his maiden speech-tiny Of
frame, sardonic Of visage, his hands in
his breeches pockets, as coolly insolent
as a Partisan gamin, as entirely de
testable as a small Diogenes, peering
over the rims of his pincenez as from
his tub, through bilious. eyes over his
contemplate audience-and Mortified
the house of commons with the follow
ing exordium: Mr.. Speaker, If the
noble marquis (Hart,ngton) thinks he
is going to bully us with his high and
mighty Cavendish ways, all l can tell
him is he will find himself knocked into
a cooked hat in a jiffy, and we will
have to put him to the necessity Of wip.
ing the blood of all the Cavendishes
from his noble nose q good many times
before he disposes Of u.s."
A Singular Dream.