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they sit down. Coyote asks Frog to dance for him and Frog jumps into deep 

 water. He comes up with mouth wide open. He is pregnant. He tells 

 Coyote to draw him out. Coyote grasps him by arms and throws him on 

 ground. Frog bursts and tadpoles swarm around him. Frog dies. Coyote 

 starts off home. People see him and try to capture him. Rain and hail storm 

 comes up and Coyote's hole is filled with water. He tries to find shelter, but 

 hail stones are so heavy they kill him. 



63. — The Coyote, the Bat, and the Humming-Bied. 



Coyote, Bat, and Humming-bird are friends. Bat and bird visit Coyote, 

 who always has plenty of meat, which they enjoy. Bat thinks he will invite 

 his two friends, but is worried as to what he will give them to eat. He goes 

 in evening to Oraibi, thinking some one may have forgotten to take in meat 

 that is drying, but finds none. He returns home discouraged, but goes again 

 and finds open window, through which he gets into house, and carries home 

 piece of tallow. He afterwards gets more tallow and some meat and some 

 salt. He determines if his friends ask where he got food to say from Badger. 

 In morning he invites bird and Coyote to visit him. They go and at noon 

 Bat prepares meal. His friends enjoy food and ask him where he got it. He 

 says Badger gave him it. They say nothing, but on way home talk matters 

 over and agree that Bat is deceiving them. Bird visits Coyote in evening. 

 They talk about food and agree that Bat must have stolen it in Oraibi. They 

 conclude they will song-tie him and start to make song. During night Coyote 

 finishes song and in morning he goes to bird's house and sings song. They 

 practice it until they both know it. Bird invites Bat in evening and fetches 

 Coyote. Bird proposes to have song and they all stand in line. Bird 

 begins song. Coyote chimes in and Bat sings best he can, but soon finds out 

 that joke is being played on him. He stops singing, tells them they have 

 song- tied him and that it ends their friendship. They disperse and never 

 become friends again. 



64. — The Coyote and the Humming-Bird. 



Coyote and Humming-bird both have children and are good friends. Coy- 

 ote goes to place where is refuse of village to look for pieces of skin, and bird 

 goes to place close by and buries himself, his bill only protruding. Coyote 

 comes and thinks bill is needle and pulls at it. Bird says it is his bill and 

 laughs at Coyote. They go to bird's house and converse. In evening Coyote 

 goes home, inviting bird to visit him to-morrow. Next morning bird goes 

 to Coyote's house, first hunting worms. Near house she sees something pro- 

 truding from ground and thinks it is gourd jug. She'puUs'at it and Coyote 

 says it is his snout. Coyote feeds friend on juniper berries, Coyote eating 

 some. After talking awhile bird returns home. 



65. — How the Coyote was Deceived by the Wren. 



Coyote Woman has four children for whom she hunts mice and other little 

 animals. She goes to spring after water for children, which she brings in her 

 mouth. Once when she returns from spring with mouth full of water, she sees 

 Wren jumping from one rock to another, singing. Coyote laughs and spills 

 water. She goes again to spring and on return again laughs at Wren and 



