March, 1905. The Traditions of the Hopi — Voth. 201 



happened he cried bitterly and became very angry. "I shall go over 

 to the house of the Turkey," he said, "and shall certainly devour the 

 little Turkeys too." Hereupon he went over to his friend's house, 

 running vfery fast. When he came to the house he at once entered 

 and thought they were all sleeping nicely. He jumped upon their 

 beds and grabbed what he believed to be the young Turkeys, but 

 found that nobody was there. They had deceived him. "Ah," he 

 said, "they have run away, but I shall certainly overtake them." So 

 he rushed out, hunted up the tracks of the Turkeys and followed them 

 running very fast. While the Coyote was following their tracks, the 

 Turkeys had arrived at the Little Colorado River, but when they had 

 crossed it the little Turkeys were very tired. "I shall leave you 

 here," their mother said, "and run ahead of you." But one of the 

 little ones was crying very bitterly. The Turkey mother ran ahead 

 to the San Francisco mountains and informed the Turkeys living 

 there about what had happened. "You that are strong come quickly 

 and help us; the Coyote is following us and he will kill my children. 

 You go quickly and get them." So two of the Turkey men that were 

 very strong came out and ran towards the place where the Turkey 

 mother had left her children. The latter, however, remained because 

 she was very tired. 



The Coyote in the meanwhile found the little Turkeys and chasing 

 them, said: "Aha, I shall devour you" (All kurzh nu umui c6wani). 

 The little Turkeys were running around and crying very bitterly. 

 Just as the Coyote was about to take one of the little Turkeys the 

 two Turkey men came upon him, grabbed the little ones, of which 

 there were two, took them on their backs and ran away with them. 

 "Why do you take them away?" the Coyote cried. "I am hungry 

 and I want to eat them. That is the reason why I followed them." 

 But they did not listen, and as they were strong and the Coyote was 

 very tired, he had to return to his home hungry. But before he got 

 home he died. 



72. THE CHIRO AND THE COYOTE.' 



In Oraibi the people were living. At fshmovala the Coyote lived. 

 Away over there at Kdhlcangwovakaavi lived a great many Chfros, 

 and they were always dancing there. One time the Coyote was 

 walking about east of their village. The Chfros saw him as they 

 were dancing. They were singing as follows: 



* Told by QOydwaima (Oraibi) .' 



