Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1894 — Coyotes After the Melons. [ARTICLE]

Coyotes After the Melons.

Kansas City Times. A remarkable story of the sagacity of animals comes from Cheyenne county, Oklahoma. There Jias 'been little or no rain there this season, and all the springs have gone dry, so there is no place for the many wild animals abounding in that section to quench their thirst. The soil there is well adapted to watermelons, and hundreds of acres have been planted by the scattered settlers Since it has become so dry the farmers find that for the first time the coyotes are after the melons. When an animal 'comes in a watermelon patch he jumps onto a melon until he cracks it then insert his nose into it and quenches his thirst with the contents. As soon as one discovered this he communicated the fact to the others, and our entire melon crop bids fair to be destroyed in this way. “Did your husband seem to grasp the situation during the big strike?’ asked the -walking delegate of Mrs. Hardhed. “He held on to his job, if that’s what you mean," was Mrs. Hardhed’s grim response. And tke walking delegate moved on toward more promising friends.