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the Coyote, returned. The little Birds all laughed at him saying, 

 "Your eyes will never return; you are bad (undihu), you are taking 

 other people's things away sometimes, and that is the reason why your 

 eye got hurt with that stick ; your eyes will never come back ; you are 

 dangerous; and you are going to die somewhere." The Coyote was 

 very angry and left them. As he could not find anything to eat now, 

 he soon died. The place where he died was called Coyote-Death- 

 Place (ishmo'mokpu) ever since. 



67. THE COYOTE AND THE TURTLE-DOVE.' 



Alfksai! The Shongopavi were living in their village, and south 

 of the village there was a hill called Kwd,kchomo. There was a great 

 deal of this grass called kw^kwi there. A Turtle-dove one time was 

 rubbing out the seed from the tassels of this grass, and while doing 

 so cut her hand with the sharp edge of one of the blades of grass. It 

 bled profusely, and the Turtle-dove was moaning as follows: 

 Hooho, hoo, hooho, hoo, hooho, hoo, 

 Ho-ho-ho- 



While she was moaning a Coyote came along and heard somebody 

 singing, as he believed. So he approached the place. When he ar- 

 rived at the place he saw the Turtle-dove sitting and leaning forward 

 in deep distress. "Are you singing?" he asked the Dove. "Are you 

 thus singing?" "No," she said, "I am not singing; I am crying. I 

 have cut myself." "No, you are singing," the Coyote replied. "Now 

 you sing to me." "No," the Dove insisted, "I was crying," thus 

 refusing to confirm the Coyote's statements. "Now, if you are not 

 willing to sing to me, I shall devour you," the Coyote said. The Dove 

 then yielded and sang the above song again. The Coyote then imi- 

 tating the song of the Dove, left her and ran away. 



As he was running he stumbled over a rock and fell down. As he 

 fell he lost the song, so that he was only able to say, "Ho-ho-ho." 

 So the Coyote made up his mind to go back again to the Turtle-dove, 

 and, arriving at the place where she was sitting, he began to urge her 

 to sing. "But I am not singing," she said, "I am crying." But he 

 would not listen, so she again sang her song to him. He again ran 

 back, singing the Turtle-dove's song as he was running. Again he 

 stumbled over a rock and lost the song. He again tried to sing, but 

 could only say, "Ho-ho-ho." So he again returned to the place 

 where the Turtle-dove had been, but the latter had gone immediately 

 after the Coyote had left her, leaving at the place where she had been 



• Told by LotnAv&ntiwa (Shupalilavi). 



