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thougbts and heai't are uot good; you are no louger a ho'naaite; go! 

 You will lieucefoitli travel quickly over aud about tlie world ; you will 

 work mucli, passing about, but you will never understand how to kill 

 the deer, antelope, or any game ; I do not travel fast, but my thoughts 

 are good, and when I call the deer they come quickly." Since that 

 time the coyote is always hunting the deer, rabbit, and other game, but 

 is not successful. 



THE COYOTE AND RATTLESNAKE. 



The coyote's house was near the house of the rattlesnake. The 

 coyote said to the snake, "Let us walk together," aud while walking- 

 he said to the snake, "Tomorrow come to my house." In the morn- 

 ing the snake went to the house of the coyote aud moved along slowly 

 on the floor, shaking his rattle. The coyote sat to one side, much 

 ati'aid; he became frightened after watching the movements of the 

 snake and hearing the noise of the rattle. The coyote had a pot of 

 rabbit meat cooking on the fire, which he placed in front of the snake, 

 inviting him to eat, saying, "Companion, eat." "No, companion, 

 I will not eat your meat; I do not understand your food," said the 

 snake. " What food do you eat !" asked the coyote. "I eat the yel- 

 low flowers of the corn," was the reply, and the coyote immediately 

 began to look around for some, aud when he found the pollen, the 

 snake said, "Put some ou the top of my head that I may eat it," and 

 the coyote, standing as far off as possible, dropped a little on the 

 snake's head. The snake said, "Come nearer and piit enough on my 

 head that I may flud it." He was very much afraid, but after a while 

 he came close to the snake and put the pollen on his head, and after 

 eating the pollen the snake thanked the coyote saying, "I will go now 

 and pass about,'' but before leaving he invited the coyote to his house: 

 "Companion, to-morrow you come to my house." "Very well," said the 

 coyote, "to-morrow I will go to your house." The coyote thought 

 much what the snake would do on the morrow. He made a small 

 rattle (by placing tiny pebbles in a gourd) and attached it to the eud 

 of his tail, and, testing it, he was well satisfied and said: "This is 

 well;" he then proceeded to the house of the snake. When he was 

 near the house he shook his tail and said to himself, "This is good; I 

 guess when I go into the house the snake will be very much afraid of 

 me." He did not walk into the house, but moved like a snake. The 

 coyote could not shake the rattle as the snake did his; he had to hold 

 his tail in his hand. Wheu he shook his rattle the snake appeared 

 afraid and said, "Companion, I am much afraid of you." The snake 

 had a stew of rats on the fire, which he placed before the coyote and 

 invited him to eat, saying, "Companion, eat some of my food," aud 

 the coyote replied, "I do not understand your food; I can not eat it, 

 because I do not understand it." The snake insisted upon his eating, 

 but the coyote continued to refuse, saying, "If you will put some of 



