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12. Coyote AND Burrato ! (2 versions: Nos. 6 and 47). First Version.—Coyote finds 
the skull of a buffalo bull. He kicks it. After a while he hears a noise and sees 
Buffalo coming in pursuit. His manitous hide him in the stump of a burnt tree, 
which the Buffalo shatters; next in a stone, which he also shatters; in a pond, which 
Buffalo drinks; in a rose bush, which Buffalo can not tear to pieces. Coyote asks for 
peace and offers to smoke with Buffalo. Buffalo says that he lights his pipe by hold- 
ing it up tothe sun. Buffalo’s wife had been taken away by other Buffaloes, and he 
had been killed. Coyote sharpens Buffalo’s horns, and the two set out to recover 
Buffalo’s wives. They overcome the other Buffaloes, and Coyote receives the larger 
Buffalo Cow, which is to be his wife. He sends her ahead, and tries to shoot her in a 
valley. The arrow does not enter her body. Finally he kills her. After butchering 
her, he sits on a stone. Wolf comes and eats the Buffalo, and Coyote is unable to get 
up until the meat has been eaten.?, He pounds the bones and tries to extract the 
marrow. A bird tells him that he must not pound them,’ that Badger is to do so. 
While Badger is pounding, Coyote is asked to take hold of Badver's tail. 
The marrow is put into a bladder. Badger runs away, eats it, and throws back the 
empty bladder. Coyote intends to break the remaining bones, and is told by a bird 
that the bird will do it. Coyote is sent away and told to return when he sees smoke. 
When he returns, the birds have flown away with what remains of the Buffalo. 
Second Version.—Coyote finds the head of a Buffalo Bull,! passes it three times, and 
breaks it with a stone. He covers a flat rock with his blanket, and lies down singing. 
He hears Buffalo coming in pursuit. He runs away. When he is tired, he calls on 
his manitous. The first one has the form of a stump, in which Coyote hides. Buffalo 
breaks it in two. The next one is a stone, which Buffalo also breaks in two. The 
third one isa bush, which Buffalo can not tear. They make peace and smoke together. 
Coyote institutes the peace pipe. Buffalo tells Coyote that other Buffaloes took away 
his two wives and killed him. Coyote sharpens Buffalo’s horns, and they overcome 
the other Buffaloes and take back the two wives. Buffalo gives to Coyote one of his 
wives, which Coyote selects because she is not as strong as the other one. Coyote 
sends his Buffalo wife ahead and kills her. He sits down on a stone and cries for the 
wife whom he has killed. Wolves come and eat the Cow, while Coyote is unable to 
get up.? After the Wolves have disappeared, the stone lets him go. He is about to 
break the bones to extract the marrow, when Badger forbids him to break the bones, 
and offers fo break them himself. Coyote holds on to Badger’s tail while Badger is 
pounding the bones. Badger puts the marrow into the bladder and runs away with 
the marrow, eating it. He throws back the bladder. Coyote intends to pound the 
remaining bones. Two birds forbid him to do so, and tell him that they themselves 
will pound them. Coyote is sent to make a Epeon: When he comes back, the birds 
fly away with the chopped bone. 
13. Coyote AND Burrerrty (No. 17). Coyote hears Butterfly singing. (The story 
is unintelligible.) 
14. Coyotre AND Grovse # (No. 8).—While Grouse and husband are away, Coyote 
enters the tent, puts their children into a bag, and carries them away. The children 
break the bag and escape. 
1 Assiniboin (Lowie PaAM 4:122). 
Nez Percé (Spinden MAFLS 11:190). 
Okanagon (Teit MAFLS 11:76). 
Shoshoni (Lowie PaAM 2:276 [first part only]). 
Shuswap (Boas, Sagen 6). 
Thompson (Teit JE 8:208; MAFLS 11:32). 
See Thompson (Teit MAFLS 6:29). 
2 Assiniboin (Lowie PaAM 9:108, 112). 
Shuswap (Teit JE 2:633 [here it is merely said that Coyote is too lazy to rise], 741). 
Thompson (‘Teit MAFLS 11:7). 
8 See Sanpoil (Gould MAFLS 11:104). 
4 Caddo (Dorsey CI 41:102). 
Pawnee (Dorsey CI 59:458). 
Shoshoni (Lowie PaAM 2:258, 259, 261). 
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