Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1887 — The Coyote and the Greaser. [ARTICLE]

The Coyote and the Greaser.

The fauna of New Mexico are few, but of interest. Besides sixteen varieties of rattlesnake, twenty-one of horned toad and forty-two of lizard, there is the coyote and the greaser. The greaser is wealthier than the coyote. I have known an opulent greaser to possess two strings of red peppers, a bushel of corn, a peck of onions and seven dogs. One greaser, who lived near Fort McRae, was the Vanderbilt of the section. He had nine dogs. The coyote is so poor he cannot even afford to keep fleas. The coyote is superior to the greaser in that he sings. Shortly after midnight I have known officers, who usually had but an indifferent ear for music, to lie awake for hours listening to a chorus of coyotes, and expressing their opinion in the strongest terms. A coyote sings every night when he has no supper, and he gets a supper about once a year when he is in luck.— Henry Guy Carleton.