Chink : The Development of a Pup 



military patrol, with soldiers always on watch. 

 Secure in the knowledge of this, the Coyote 

 used to come about the camp each night for 

 scraps. At first I found only his tracks in the 

 dust, as though he had circled the camp but 

 feared to come very near. Then we began to 

 hear his weird evening song just after sundown, 

 or about sun-up. At length his track was plain 

 in the dust about the scrap-bucket each morn- 

 ing when I went out to learn from the trail 

 what animals had been there during the night. 

 Then growing bolder, he came about the camp 

 occasionally in the daytime. Shyly at first, but 

 with increasing assurance, as he was satisfied 

 of his immunity, until finally he was not only 

 there every night, but seemed to hang around 

 nearly all day, sneaking in to steal whatever was 

 eatable, or sitting in plain view on some rising 

 ground at a distance. 



One morning, as he sat on a bank some fifty 

 yards away, one of us, in a spirit of mischief, 

 said to Chink : " Chink, do you see that Coyote 

 over there grinning at you? Go and chase him 

 out of that." 



Chink always did as he was told, and burning 

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