Two coyotes are heading toward their dens.
“Why are we quitting early?” the younger one asks. “It’s still plenty dark.”
“Where are your ears, boy?” asks the elder one. “Didn’t you notice that the two-leggeds are up and around already?”
“Why is that?”
“Don’t know, but it happens every year when the days are getting longer. Must be something weird in their metabolism, ‘cause there’s no sense to it.”
A third coyote has joined their homeward trot. “My dad told me,” he says, “that his dad said he was prowling round a barn once and heard horses saying they were getting fed early so they could get on to plowing and planting.”
The elder coyote scoffs. “What do horses know?”
“What’s plowing?” asks the younger.
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