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Summer Country that each country should have half summer and half 

 winter. And that is the reason why the birds come up in the summer 

 and go away in the winter. 



Old Man Coyote planned to give the youth what he promised him 

 and he made the Prairie Chicken, the body being made from the mus- 

 cles of the buffalo ; the head from the snake's head ; the bill from the 

 wolf's claw; the tail from the rattle of the rattle-snake; the wings 

 from the claws of the black bear ; and the legs from caterpillars. And 

 Old Man Coyote said to the Prairie Chicken, "You are a bird, and you 

 may go and scare people by a whirring noise you make when arising 

 to fly." So the youth had the birds to chase, as did the children of 

 the Summer Land. 



3. — Old Man Coyote and the Strawberry. 



One day Old Man Coyote came down to the river valley and was 

 eating wild strawberries from a bush when he saw four women com- 

 ing toward him. He quickly transferred himself under the earth and 

 under the strawberry bush and caused his penis to project up in the 

 bush among the strawberries and when the women came along to the 

 strawberry bush where Old Man Coyote was concealed, they began 

 to pick and eat the strawberries, and one of them tried to pick the 

 head of the penis for a strawberry, and as she could not pluck it, she 

 stooped over and tried to bite it off, and she called out to her com- 

 panions, who also tried to pluck it but could not. So they determined 

 to cut it off and take it home, and began to hunt for a sharp piece 

 of flint, and on their return to the strawberry bush the strawberry 

 had disappeared, and they then declared it to have been Old Man 

 Coyote who had done this. They then agreed to retaliate and watched 

 Old Man Coyote all the time, until one day they saw him coming 

 through the woods, and they quickly disrobed and made their noses 

 bleed by hitting themselves, and took the blood and smeared it over 

 their bodies to make it appear as though they had been murdered, and 

 laid themselves down on the grass, all spread out ; and in this manner 

 Old Man Coyote soon found them and exclaimed, "How came they 

 here, these pretty things!" and then went over and touched their 

 breasts and felt all over them and put his hand over their persons, to 

 find by smelling, how long they had been lying there, and he said, 

 "They must have been dead for a long time, because they smell so 

 badly." Then he turned away, and had gone but a short distance 

 when the women got up and laughingly told him they had retaliated 

 for what he did to them. 



