Part 5 of Trout Fishing in America Analysis

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THE SALT

CREEK COYOTES

High and lonesome and steady, it's the smell of sheep down

in the valley that has done it to them. Here all afternoon in

the rain I've been listening to the sound of the coyotes up on

Salt Creek.

  The smell of the sheep grazing in the valley has done it

to them. Their voices water and come down the canyon, past

the summer homes. Their voices are a creek, running down

the mountain, over the bones of sheep, living and dead.

  O, THERE ARE COYOTES UP ON SALT CREEK so the

sign on the trail says, and it also says, WATCH OUT FOR

CYANIDE CAPSULES PUT ALONG THE CREEK TO KILL

COYOTES. DON'T PICK THEM UP AND EAT THEM. NOT

THEY'LL KILL YOU. LEAVE

UNLESS YOU'RE A COYOTE.

THE M ALONE.

  Then the sign says this all over again in Spanish. i AH !

HAY COYOTES EN SALT CREEK, TAMBIEN.   CULDADO

CON LAS CAPSULAS DE CIANURO: MATAN.   NO LAS

COMA; A MENOS QUE SEA VD. UN COYOTE.  I12ATAN.

NO LAS TOQUE.

It does not say it in Russian.

  I asked an old guy in a bar about those cyanide capsules

up on Salt Creek and he told me that they were a kind of pis-

tol. They put a pleasing coyote scent on the trigger (prob-

ably the smell of a coyote snatch) and then a coyote comes

along and gives it a good sniff, a fast feel and BLAM! That's

all, brother.

  I went fishing up on Salt Creek and caught a nice little

Dolly Varden trout, spotted and slender as a snake you'd ex-

pect to find in a jewelry store, but after a while I could think

only of the gas chamber at San Quentin.

  O Caryl Chessman and Alexander Robillard Vistas ! as if

they were names for tracts of three-bedroom houses with

wall-to-wall carpets and plumbing that defies the imagination,

  Then it came to me up there on Salt Creek, capital pun-

ishment being what it is, an act of state business with no

song down the railroad track after the train has gone and no

vibration on the rails, that they should take the head of a

coyote killed by one of those God-damn cyanide things up on

Salt Creek and hollow it out and dry it in the sun and then

make it into a crown with the teeth running in a circle around

the top of it and a nice green light coming off the teeth.

  Then the nitnesses and newspapermen and gas chamber

flunkies would have to watch a king wearing a coyote crown

die there in front of them, the gas rising in the chamber like

a rain mist drifting down the mountain from Salt Creek. It

has been raining here now for two days, and through the trees

the heart stops beating.

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