M.D. Zehr's response to Ron's question on Coyotes, jerked back into  plain 
text from the machine language: 
 
The  description of the "cayote" as an "allegory of want" is indeed from 
Roughing It.  Shelley Fisher Fishkin has included Twain's hilarious 
description in her edited  book, "Mark Twain and His Animals"
 
    Isn't it great to see the name 'Artemus Ward'  again being linked ith 
SLC. Kevin Mac Donnell's research on the pseudonym is  such an attractive 
piece of analysis, I hope hundreds subscribe 
to MTJ just  to read his complete argument. Personally, I've always felt 
that any reading of  Ward brought me a little closer to Twain, particularly 
his Comstock years. And I  have Larry Berkove to thank for that. A somewhat 
related question -- does anyone  know the full name of H.W. Bergen, Twain's 
agent in the 1870s? I have the  complete name (somewhere) for Ward's agent, 
E.P. Hingston (an Australian BTW) ,  but Bergen's full name seems elusive for 
some odd reason. A bigger question:  when did this tradition of using 
initials originate for managers and agents? Can  we blame Phineas T. Barnum? Or 
does it go back further? I was  recently told that the late 20th century 
animator Chuck Jones,creator of Wile E.  Coyote, attributed inspiration for his 
hit cartoon character to a chapter of  Roughing It. Don't remember anything 
about a Coyote in Roughing It, will have to  re-read it. Ron Hohenhaus
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