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it." Old Man Coyote said, "I dare you to make me itch !" and he then 

 ate lots of them, took lots of them and rubbed them over his body and 

 under his armpits, and shortly after was itching under the arms and all 

 over. He scratched and rubbed against big bushes and knocked them 

 over, and against rocks, until he was bleeding all over. 



8. — Old Man Coyote and the Indian Turnip. 



Old Man Coyote asked an Indian Turnip, as he did the Gooseberry, 

 what was its name, and the Indian Turnip told him, and said, "We 

 make people break wind when they eat us." Not believing this, he ate 

 lots of them, and walked along and began to break wind and his heels 

 raised up, and another break raised him off the ground, and as he re- 

 peated breaking wind, he went higher in the air, and took the bushes, 

 rocks, etc., with him in the air. He pulled up big trees, until he reached 

 a birch tree, and instead of pulling this up by the roots he would go 

 from the limits, from the roots to the top and fall to the ground again, 

 yelling each time he fell. 



9. — Old Man Coyote and the Beavers. 



Once upon a time Old Man Coyote came to a beaver dam and tak- 

 ing a stick a beaver had cut, stuck it through his body as though by 

 some force. The mother Beaver found him there and took him to her 

 home and was going to raise Old Man Coyote. 



One day she told him to watch his sisters, the little beavers. He cut 

 off their heads and burned them on each side of the mouth and stuck 

 the heads where they generally slept ; the remainder of them he ate. 



When the mother Beaver found out it was Old Man Coyote, she 

 told him never to drink from any water on his hands and knees ; and 

 that if he did, he would have a sad mishap. Old Man Coyote several 

 times came near drinking on his hands and knees, but one day he 

 absolutely forgot it, and the Beaver bit his nose off. He made a good 

 nose out of mud, and every time he went into a house and took a baby 

 in his arms, the baby knocked his nose off; so he made a nose of 

 fruit pits, and it stayed that way. 



10. — Old Man Coyote, the Wolf, and the Holes in the Ice. 



One day Old Man Coyote came to a Wolf that had tied a rock to 

 the end of his tail. As the Wolf trotted over the ice, the rock would 

 hit the ice and make holes in it, and the fat of the buffalo would stick 

 up through the holes. 



