obvious reasons.
In sech events the victim bolts the piece of beef an' lopes off mebby
five miles before ever he succumbs. With this yere augur hole play
it's different. The wolf has to lick the arsenic-tallow out with his
tongue an' the p'isen has time an' gets in its work. That wolf sort o'
withers right thar in his tracks. At the most he ain't further away
than the nearest water; arsenic makin' 'em plenty thirsty, as you-all
most likely knows.

"Old Coyote shows up in Wolfville about once a month, packin' in his
pelts an' freightin' over to his wickeyup whatever in the way of grub
he reckons he needs. Which, if you was ever to see Coyote once, you
would remember him. He's shore the most egreegious person, an' in
appearance is a cross between a joke, a disaster an' a cur'osity. I
don't reckon now pore Coyote ever sees the time when he weighs a
hundred pound; an' he's grizzled an' dried an' lame of one laig, while
his face is like a squinch owl's face--kind o' wide-eyed an' with a
expression of ignorant wonder, as if life is a never-endin' surprise
party.

"Most likely now what fixes him firmest in your mind is, he don't drink
none. He declines nosepaint in every form; an' this yere abstinence,
the same bein' yoonique in Wolfville, together with Coyote conductin'
himse'f as the p'litest an' best-mannered gent to be met with in all of
Arizona, is apt to introode on your attention. Colonel Sterett once
mentions Coyote's manners.

"'Which he could give Chesterfield, Coyote could, kyards an' spades,'
observes the Colonel. I don't, myse'f, know this Chesterfield none,
but I can see by the fashion in which Colonel Sterett alloodes to him
that he's a Kaintuckian an' a jo-darter on manners an' etiquette.

"As I says, a pecooliar trait of Coyote is that he won't drink nothin'
but water. Despite this blemish, however, when the camp gets so it
knows him it can't he'p but like him a heap. He's so quiet an' honest
an' ignorant an' little an' lame, an' so plumb p'lite besides, he grows
on you. I can almost see the weasened old outlaw now as he comes
rockin' into town with his six or seven burros packed to their y'ears
with pelts!

"This time when Coyote puts Doc Peets in a toomult is when he's first
pitched his dug-out camp an' begins to honour Wolfville with his
visits. As yet none of us appreciates pore Coyote at his troo worth,
an' on account of them guileless looks of his sech humourists as Dan
Boggs an' Tex