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spills water. She tells Wren that she is going again for water and that if 

 Wren is still doing that on her return she will devour him. While Coyote 

 is gone Wren slips out of his skin and dresses up stone with it so that it looks 

 like Wren. Wren himself slips under rock and when Coyote returns begins 

 to sing. Coyote laughs and spills water. He is very angry and grabs stone 

 dressed as bird and crushes it. She breaks all her teeth so that blood streams 

 from her mouth. She runs back to spring to wash her face and sees bloody 

 face staring at her. She runs to another spring and is scared away m same 

 manner. She visits several other springs with same result, and then rushes 

 westward to Grand Carton. She jumps into canon and perishes. 



66. — The Aahtu and the Coyote. 



Aahtu are playing in cedar timber and singing. When through with song 

 they throw their eyes on tree and on again singing song eyes return to their 

 sockets. Coyote comes and asks what they are doing. They tell him that 

 when eyes are not clear and they are thrown away in that manner they become 

 clear again. Coyote says one of his eyes is not clear and he will join them. 

 He throws his eyes on tree with others at last word of song. They sing again 

 and all eyes except those of Coyote return. Little birds all laugh at him and 

 say eyes will not return as he is bad. Coyote is angry and leaves them. He 

 can find nothing to eat and soon dies. 



67. — The Coyote and the Turtle-Dove. 



Turtle-dove cuts her hand while rubbing out seed from tassels of kwdkwi 

 grass. It bleeds profusely, and while she moans Coyote approaches. He asks 

 if she is singing and, when she says she is crying, he tells her to sing again or 

 he will devour her. Dove sings again and Coyote imitates her and runs away. 

 He stumbles over rock and falls down. He loses song and goes back to Turtle- 

 dove. He makes her sing song again. He runs back singing, but again 

 stumbles and falls, and again returns. Turtle-dove goes away and leaves stone 

 resembling her in place where she has been sitting. Coyote says he has again 

 fallen and forgotten song. He threatens to devour Turtle-dove if she does 

 not sing. Receiving no reply he grabs what he believes to be Dove, but finds 

 it is stone. He breaks all his teeth and blood streams from his mouth. He 

 runs back and comes to spring Toriva. As he puts mouth to water he sees 

 bloody face staring at him and runs away. He goes to several other springs, 

 in which he sees same reflection and dares not drink. Finally he runs to 

 Orafbi, where is place where no one lives. He puts his snout into water and is 

 just about to drink when he discovers skeleton staring at him from water. 

 He is very angry and tears up rocks about spring, but is so exhausted he falls 

 down and dies. 



68. — The Coyote and the Blue Jays. 



Coyote has wife and five children, for whom he hunts rabbits. He chases 

 little cotton-tail rabbit, which runs into hole which he cannot enter. Badger 

 comes along and Coyote asks him to get rabbit out for him. Badger does and 

 Coyote runs home with it. Little Coyotes wrangle over rabbit, tear it to pieces, 

 some getting nothing and remaining hungry. Next morning Coyote and wife 

 go in search of food. Wife enters woods and hears Blue Jays in tree. They 



