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thought he would wait until there was a cold day. As in about four 

 days it became very cold, he concluded to pay his friend a visit. 

 Coming over to the kiva of the Snake, the two exchanged the usual 

 greeting, the Coyote saying, "How! (is) the friend at home?" (How! 

 kwatch kdtu?) "Yes, I (am) at home. Come in." (Ow^! Pai nu 

 kdtu. Paki!) Whereupon the Coyote entered the kiva, and kept 

 circling around and around, filling the entire kiva with his tail. 

 "Well!" the Snake said, "you are going to fill this whole kiva, so let 

 me go outside and talk to you from there." Leaving the kiva, the 

 Water Serpent kept going around outside for some time, coiling up in 

 such a manner that finally the head was close to the entrance so that 

 he could talk with his friend. It was very cold and the Coyote smil- 

 ingly thought to himself while he was feeling very comfortable in the 

 warm kiva, " Now you can freeze out there, too." The Snake became 

 very cold and wished that his friend might leave, but he tarried. The 

 Snake was shivering and became angry and wished very much that 

 the Coyote might take his leave. Finally the latter said that he must 

 now go home and eat his dinner, and while the Coyote was going up 

 the ladder dragging his tail after him, the Water Serpent went in. 

 Arriving at the fireplace the latter said, " I am going to get even with 

 you. I am going to pay you back;" and grabbing a stick at the fire- 

 place, he shoved the part of the Coyote's tail that was still in the kiva 

 on the fire, so that it caught fire, saying: "You get out of this; you 

 (referring to the Coyote) are always taking other people's things 

 and are always doing something bad ; you had better get away from 

 here." 



The Coyote had by this time gotten away quite a distance, and, 

 looking around, he admired his long tail. When he had nearly 

 reached his kiva he looked around again and then noticed some smoke 

 and fire behind him, but as there was high grass around there at that 

 time, he thought it was the grass burning. "Oh," he said, "the 

 Hopi have set the grass on fire. They are after me and want to drive 

 me away. Maybe they will kill me. I am not going to my house, 

 but I am going to run away." So he began to run westward. Look- 

 ing back he again noticed the grass burning at various places and 

 thought he was pursued. He finally reached the timber and when 

 he saw that burning after a while, he concluded that he would run to 

 Little Colorado River (Bayupa) and jump in there. Then he thought 

 the people would not find him. He did not yet know at this time 

 that his tail was burning. Arriving at the river, which was very high, 

 he jumped in and tried to swim across, but before he got across he 

 became very tired. The river was drifting him along, and he finally 



