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Ishmovala lived the Coyote. He had eaten watermelons, but he 

 was longing for those maidens. Them he wanted. The Coyote had 

 a grandmother and to her he said: "My grandmother!" "Ha!" she 

 said. "Shall I not start south for those maidens?" "O my!" she 

 said, "they certainly will not want you, but if you want to go to 

 them, you go to the village and there somewhere you enter through 

 a window opening, and if there is. a bow hanging anywhere, take it; 

 also if there is an arrow quiver, take that, too; also red yarn, and if 

 you find some blue yarn take that, too ; also if you find some leggings, 

 take them; and then a blue shirt; and if you go somewhere in the 

 rear of the village and find some red stone ochre, take it. That much 

 you come and "bring." Thus she said to him. 



Now the Coyote started for the village and arrived there, and 

 sure enough, he found a broken bow somewhere and took it. Also 

 an arrow quiver he found, which he also took; and a shirt, and leg- 

 gings; some blue yarn, and stone ochre. That much he brought 

 along. Now he went to his grandmother. The grandmother dressed 

 him up in it. He put on the shirt and the leggings, had his hair 

 tied up, put the quiver with arrows behind his loin string. Now the 

 ochre he put on his face like the Hohd Katcina, and thus he went to 

 the maidens. But the father of the maidens had put up a stone 

 trap east of the Coyote's house, and now the Coyote went to the 

 maidens, but he arrived at that trap, and there at the balance some 

 rabbit meat was tied. When he arrived there he pressed towards it 

 (the meat), but he was fooled. He went into the trap and took hold 

 of the meat with his teeth and pulled at it, and of course, the trap 

 shut and thus he died there. 



When it was evening those maidens going home went to the trap, 

 of their father and arrived there, and there that (Coyote) was caught 

 and they laughed at him when they saw that some one with an arrow 

 quiver was sticking out there. When they had seen him they went 

 home and when they arrived there they slept during the night, but 

 in the evening they said to their father: "Our father," one said. 

 "Hay!" he said. "In your trap there something has been caught. " 

 "Very well," he said, "to-morrow I shall also go there." When it 

 had become morning the father went there and arrived at his trap, 

 and sure enough he (Coyote) was caught. He pulled him out and 

 carried him to his field. When he arrived there he skinned him and 

 hung up his skin as a watching flag. And after that it was hanging 

 there as a flag. 



