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14 NARRATOR 3: Since there were so many children and animals in
the wagon, nobody noticed that Bill wasn’t in the wagon until about
a week later. By then it was too late to go look for him, but Bill’s
parents figured that any baby who could wrestle a grizzly bear was
certainly tough enough to survive in the wilds of Texas.
15 NARRATOR 4: As it happens, Bill got along fine. After falling out
of the wagon, he crawled into a cave of coyotes and fell asleep. The
mama coyote took a liking to Bill and began to raise him as her
own. Bill soon learned all the ways of coyote life. He learned how
to bay at the moon, how to hunt for rabbits, and how to wrestle
with all the other coyotes in the den. Pretty soon, Bill was just a
regular coyote.
16 NARRATOR 1: One day Bill was lapping up some water from the
Pecos River along with the other coyotes. That’s when a cowboy
spotted him.
17 COWBOY 1: What in tarnation! You’re just lapping up water like
you was a regular coyote.
18 PECOS BILL: Well, that’s what I am—a coyote. Anyways, ain’t you
never seen a real coyote afore?
19 COWBOY 1: ’Course I have. But you’re not like any coyote I’ve ever
seen. You look more like a human than you do a coyote.
20 PECOS BILL: But I am a coyote. I have fleas just like a coyote,
don’t I?
21 COWBOY 1: That don’t mean nothin’. The thing that all coyotes got
is a tail.
22 NARRATOR 2: With that, Bill turned around and looked back.
It was then, for the first time in his life, that he realized he didn’t
have a tail.
23 PECOS BILL: I don’t have a tail like my brothers and
sisters. But if I’m not a coyote, then what am I?
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