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sionally bit small pieces off of them. Again they passed on and he met 

 them again, a still larger dog, and bit larger pieces. The fourth time, 

 he met them and bit still larger pieces, and then they discovered it to 

 be Old Man Coyote ; so they began to run. Old Man Coyote took a 

 young sapling and knocked them down in an old lake bed, and they all 

 melted into a soup. 



As Old Man Coyote started to drink up the soup, he called to his 

 partner to come, and when his partner came, he said, "Now you go 

 after my spoon" (which was the tail of the lynx). His partner started 

 for the spoon and shortly returned, claiming that his moccasins were 

 worn out on the bottom. So Old Man Coyote fitted him out in raw- 

 hide moccasins, but his partner after going but a short distance took a 

 sharp piece of rock and made holes in the soles, returned again, and 

 again complained of his moccasins. Again he was fitted out, this 

 time with stone sole moccasins. These he smashed on the rocks and 

 again returned and complained. Old Man Coyote said, "You stay here, 

 — you know nothing — and when I reach the top of the hill, you dip 

 your hand in the soup and lick it for me. When Old Man Coyote 

 went over the first hill for his spoon, his partner drank a lot of the 

 soup, and when the last hill was reached by Old Man Coyote, the 

 partner had drank the last of the soup and then ran away. When Old 

 Man Coyote came back with the spoon, the lake of soup was cleaned. 



Coyote tracked his partner by following the grease spots and found 

 him asleep under a big shade tree with his rectum protruding. Old 

 Man Coyote took a sharp pointed stick and pushed it through his 

 partner's rectum into the ground. Then he took some sticks and built 

 a prairie fire to the windward of his sleeping partner. Old Man 

 Coyote shouted that the prairie was on fire and the sleeping partner 

 was quickly aroused and dashed away to save being destroyed by the 

 fire. As he ran, his intestines became unravelled and stretched out 

 across the country. Old Man Coyote took the end of the rectum which 

 was pinned to the ground and began to suck out the soup. He kept on 

 sucking until all the soup had been taken ; but he insisted that there 

 must be more of it. and continued sucking, which caused Old Man 

 Coyote to vomit all the soup. 



7. — Old Man Coyote and the Gooseberry Bushes. 



One day when Old Man Coyote was Walking along the river, he 

 stopped at some Gooseberry bushes and enquired of them their name. 

 The Gooseberrv said, "We have but one name, and you have just called 



