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so heavy that it threw her down. When she rose she had been turned 

 into a coyote. Her friend at the top of the hill laughed at her and 

 said, "You have been quarreling with me about that young man, now 

 that is what you get for it. Now, you go about that way." Where- 

 upon she picked up her jug and went to the village. 



The other maiden, now a coyote, felt very sad and ascended the 

 hill to her water jug, which she tried to carry but could not do so in 

 her present form. She waited there until- evening and was crying 

 most of the time. After dark she tried to enter the village, but the 

 dogs of the village immediately drove her away. She made a large 

 circuit around the village and tried to enter it from another side, but 

 was again driven away by the dogs. So she went westward, and 

 having become very hungry by this time, she was thinking where she 

 might find something to eat. It was in the fall of the year, and the 

 people were watching their crops in the fields, so she thought she 

 might perhaps find something in some of the sheds or temporary 

 shelters in which the people were living, and approaching one of them 

 she found on top of a shelter two roasted ears of corn that had been left 

 there. These she ate. She then made another effort to enter the 

 village but as soon as the dogs of the village smelled her presence she 

 was again driven away. She then concluded that she could not get 

 into the village and again went westward. She knew that somewhere 

 west of Ap6hnivi there was a place called Yung^chaivi, where 

 some herders had also built temporary shelters and were staying while 

 they were herding their sheep at that place. She thought that per- 

 haps there she might find some shelter and food. 



By and by she arrived at a hut which belonged to two Q6oqoql6m 

 Katcinas who were hunting in that region. In this hut she found a 

 great deal of rabbit meat, a good many rabbit skins and some entrails 

 of rabbit. The latter and the meat were slightly baked. She was 

 very hungry and ate a little of the entrails, which she did not like 

 very much, however. It was about the time of the morning meal 

 and the two hunters had had their early meal and had already left 

 for the hunt. She was very tired, having spent all the night trying 

 to get into the village and find shelter, and so concluded to remain 

 and rest here all day. In the evening the two Q6oq6qlom hunters 

 returned. When coming near their hut one of them said, "There is 

 a coyote in our hut and has eaten some of our meat. Let us kill him." 

 Whereupon he got ready his bow and arrows and was aiming at the 

 intruder, when the other one said : "No, let us try to capture him alive 

 and take him home to our grandmother. Spider Woman." Upon 

 entering the hut they heard the coyote sob and saw tears trickling 



