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Show "^Coyote, quepasoT Pedro yelled from a safe distance. Many a coyote had tried to turn him into a bunny enchilada. Coyote half howled and half whined back, "Por favor amigo, I need some help, pronto. I have cactus stuck in me from head to tail. Please help me pull them out. if \{&A v > £ ^ ' l ( y Vl-C/I V 1*8 wp^ld do anything you want&Tme to do." Pedro stayed a safe distance away and thought about this. He wasn't so sure he wanted to help coyote out. Coyotes were not known to be trustworthy. As he thought, he kept his eyes fixed on Coyote. Soon the awful howling started up again. "Ayudame, por favor senor Bunny. Help Me!" Pedro remembered the prayer he said before his siesta. The Creator couldn 't be sending a coyote to help hHjn, could He? Pedro called back to Coyote, "If I help you, will you help me?" "I will do anything you ask senor Bunny, just name it," Coyote pleaded. "I have two requests, Coyote. The first is, that you don't eat me," Pedro said. "Si, si, senor, and the second?" Coyote said. "Segundo," Pedro called back, "that you help me deliver all the Easter eggs in the Southwest this year." "What?" Coyote asked. "Are you trying to pull the wool over my eyes, senor Bunny? Do you really think you are the Easter Bunny?" "I, senor Coyote," Pedro proudly puffed, "am Pedro Lopez Armijo the 8th. The one, the only Easter Bunny in the Southwest. I am proud to carry on a long tradition of Easter Bunnies in mifamilia starting with Pedro Lopez Armijo the \s\ who came to this country with the Conquistadores in 1595." a- |