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her eyes and grabbed the bull about the neck, and as both came to- 

 gether the bull was transformed into a young man. 



This same chief had another daughter, older than the one just 

 married and not as pretty as she. .After transferring the red bird 

 and red fox to the chief, the young man and the pretty daughter were 



married. 



Old Man Coyote, not knowing that the daughter had been married, 

 brought his bag containing what he supposed was the red bird and the 

 pelt of the red fox, and presented the bag to the chief with an air 

 of confidence of securing his daughter; but when the sack was opened 

 it contained a buzzard and a gray wolf. 



The chief took pity on Old Man Coyote and gave his homely daugh- 

 ter to him. 



After the two couples had been married the young man said there 

 would be plenty of buffalo near by so that a big hunt could be had. 

 The camp was moved to the bank of a big river, where all went swim- 

 ming. When the young man went in to swim, he was transformed into 

 a buffalo bull and would then let his wife grasp his horns and take her 

 across the river and back again upon his back. 



Old Man Coyote saw this done, and said, "That is nothing to do ; 

 I can do that too." He started to transform himself into a buffalo bull, 

 but he was nothing but a plain gray wolf and when his wife grabbed 

 him by the tail and swam a little way with him, the people on the bank 

 began to laugh and shout at him. Both of them went beneath the sur- 

 face of the water several times and came near drowning. He then 

 hit his wife on the arm to loosen her hold on his tail, which she did, 

 and then he ran away as soon as he reached the shore. 



The young man was becoming very popular and well liked, and the 

 people wondered where he came from, and who his parents were. He 

 said to them one day, "I will tell who my mother is and who I am, 

 if all the women will dress themselves in their best clothing and stand 

 in a row." The women did so, and he looked at them all and he 

 pointed out his mother, who asked him where he was born, and he told 

 her the circumstances of his birth, and when he was thrown in the 

 wallow, and she told him never to say anything in reference to his 

 father. 



