Cayote

The cayote is a living, breathing allegory of Want. ❋ JR. ROY MORRIS (2010)

The cayote is a long, slim, sick and sorry-looking skeleton, with a gray wolf-skin stretched over it, a tolerably bushy tail that forever sags down with a despairing expression of forsakenness and misery, a furtive and evil eye, and a long, sharp face, with slightly lifted lip and exposed teeth. ❋ Mark Twain (1872)

Cartoonist Chuck Jones created "Wile E. Coyote" based on Twain's first encounter with a "cayote" in Roughing It, arguably Twain's best kept literary secret. ❋ Cindy Lovell (2010)

"Wile E. Coyote" based on Twain's first encounter with a "cayote" in ❋ Cindy Lovell (2010)

I love how PB makes it real ... her Characters are real as people (even if they are wolf/cayote etc). ❋ Nalini Singh (2010)

The coyote—he continually misspelled it “cayote”—afforded Twain an opportunity for a fine set piece of descriptive writing. ❋ JR. ROY MORRIS (2010)

HARRIS: Urban cayote -- you say cayote or coyote -- what do you say here? ❋ Unknown (2008)

The “wounded cayote” must be sedated and caged. h/t Jane. ❋ Unknown (2006)

And I hear the hungry cayote as he slinks up through the grass ❋ Various (N/A)

When I think of the tin can by the fire and the cayote on the hill. ❋ Various (N/A)

"I haven't shot a single bear, and I haven't even seen the tail of a cayote." ❋ Anna Chapin Ray (1905)

All this time the Indians had kept up their cayote barking and were drawing near the fire. ❋ Drannan, William F (1899)