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To these belong the Thompson version Ntl Teit 2.42, Ntl Hill-Tout 2.576, U 200, 

 Ntl Teit 3.301, where it is told that Magpie catches Deer in a net, and TJ 207, 211, 

 where Wood Tick strikes a rock with a staff, causing Deer to fall down. This tale 

 occurs also in other connections. 



In the Quinault version Magpie takes a salmon egg out of his hair. In the Chinook 

 tale he sweeps the house, finding an egg on the floor, which he boils, and which he 

 uses for preparing food. 



Related to these may perhaps be the incidents of Muskrat boiling water which 

 becomes rice, occurring in the Ponca tale; and of Duck boiling excrements which are 

 turned into rice, in Fox 257, 261, and Ojibwa [Radin] 14, 15, Timagami Ojibwa 

 [Speck] 39; Jones,'317. 351. 



In the Timagami Ojibwa version, Muskrat puts ice into hot sand, which is trans- 

 formed into potatoes [SpeckJ 40. 



Woodpecker obtains insects for his guest by climbing a tree and pecking it, as told 

 among the Micmac and Penobscot. In Fox 269 he obtains honey in the same way. 

 Among the Chippewa of Lake Superior he obtains raccoons in this manner, School- 

 craft, Hiawatha 4:'.; Ojibwa [Radin] 14, 16; Timagami Ojibwa [Speck] 42; Jones 305, 

 357. 



In a few tales the animals are simply called by the host. In Arapaho 120 food is 

 called and falls down. This is repeated four times. In the Shoshoni version the 

 host calls the birds; and in Fox 241, 245, the Skunk calls the animals, which he 

 then kills with his stench (also I >jibwa [Radin] 14, 16, [Speck] 43). 



In Arapaho 1 12 the Water Ousel sharpens his leg and kills buffalo with it. 



In Wichita 285 the Fish Hawk has a string attached to his head, which he uses in 

 spearing the fish. When the guest tries to imitate his action, he tears off his scalp. 



When the Woodpecker spreads out his wings, his house seems to be on fire, while 

 in Jicarilla Apache [Goddard] the guest, when trying to imitate him, burns his house. 

 In the Mescalero Apache version. Woodpecker spreads out his wings, and Coyote 

 believes that the red under the wings is lightning. In the version Caddo 94 of this 

 group, Woodpecker has a light on his head. 



In the version Caddo 93 the Rear leans against a persimmon tree, and causes the fruit 

 to fall down. In the Mescalero Apache version, Coyote visits the Bees, who bring 

 some yucca stalks and make a lodge, which they shake. Honey falls down, which 

 Coyote makes into a ball, which he puts into his blanket. When he tries to imitate 

 the Bees, a little black rotten honey falls to the ground. Parallel with this is the 

 Cora incident of Bean striking his house and calling beans to fall down. 



The Cora incident of Cock pressing eggs out of his wife may perhaps be com- 

 pared to the incidents of animals obtaining food from then- own bodies. 



Quite disconnected is the version Caddo 88, where we read about Mountain Lion 

 sitting on a branch of a tree and jumping on a young horse. In form this incident 

 resembles the diving of animals for fish. 



The Kickapoo story of WIza'ka'a's visit to the Skunk is not clear. Skunk simply 

 gives him meat; and when Skunk returns the visit, Wiza'ka'a paints his wife and 

 children white. 



The Biloxi tale tells how Rabbit treats Grizzly Bear with cane, while the Bear 

 treats Rabbit with insects, Biloxi 49. 



The distribution of these tales is summarized in the following table, 

 in which the various forms are indicated by numbers: 



(1) Oil drips out of heated hands. 



(2) Berries produced by singing. 



(3) Spawn produced by striking ankle. 



(4) Cutting meat out of legs or feet. 

 (4') Meat cut from body. 



(5) Meat dug out of body by means of a sharp stick "r an arrow. 



(6) Wood transformed into food. 



(7) Children killed for food. 



(8) Diving for fish. 



