Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1898 — The Coy Coyote. [ARTICLE]

The Coy Coyote.

“Speaking about smart animals,” said the real estate man, “I want to go on record as saying that there is no animal that can hold a candle to the coyote for smoothness. When I first went out to Western Kansas I had an ambition to kill enough coyotes to make a laprobe to send back to my friends in the East. I tramped all over that country with a gun, but I never could get nearer than within a mile of a coyote. I used to drive out in my buggy and hide the gun under the seat, but it didn’t make any difference. Not a coyote ever got near enough so that he could have been reached with anything short of a longrange cannon. “One day I started out in a hurry and forgot my gun. I hadn't gone a mile from town before I ran onto a group of four coyotes. The eritters didn’t even take the trouble to lope off out of sight. They just walked off two or three rods from the road and sat down aud looked at me and yawned. It made me hot to see their infernal Impudence, and 1 made a dive as If I were going to get the'gun out from under the seat I thought sure I would scare them away. Well, maybe you wouldn’t believe it, but those cussed coyotes never moved. They just sat up there and actually grinned. They said just as plain as if they had used the words: ‘Oh, you needn't try to run any bluff on us! We are strictly onto our job.’ How they knew I hadn't the gun I don't know, but I have had great respect for the sense of a coyote ever since.” —Kansas City Journal.