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' Texas Thompson seizes on him as a source of merriment.
"It's Coyote's third expedition into town, an' he's hoverin' about the New York store waitin' for 'em to figger up his wolf pelts an' cut out his plunder so he freights it back to his dug-out.

Dan an' Texas is also procrastinatin' 'round, an' they sidles up allowin' to have their little jest.

Old Coyote don't know none of 'em--quiet an' sober an' p'lite like I relates, he's slow gettin' acquainted--an' Dan an' Texas, as well as Doc Peets, is like so many onopened books to him.

For that matter, while none of them pards of mine knows Coyote, they manages to gain a sidelight on some of his characteristics before ever they gets through.

Doc Peets later grows ashamed of the part he plays, an' two months afterwards when Coyote is chewed an' clawed to a standstill by a infooriated badger which he mixes himse'f up with, Peets binds him up an' straightens out his game, an' declines all talk of recompense complete.
"'It's merely payin' for that outrage I attempts on your feelin's when you rebookes me so handsome,' says Peets, as he turns aside Coyote's _dinero_ an' tells him to replace the same in his war-bags.
"However does Coyote get wrastled by that badger?
It's another yarn, but at least she's brief an' so I'll let you have it.