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Then Old Coyote Woman, who was hunting around there, heard 

 the song. "But where must this beautiful singing be coming from? 

 I believe I will go to whez'e it sounds from." As she said thus, she 

 went over to where it sounded from. When she arrived where the 

 Jackrabbit and the Bluejay were grmding, she said: "Are you 

 grinding?" "Yes, we are grinding," said the Bluejay to her, "go 

 and get your shelled corn and join us." 



As they told her thus, she went up to Tciuthoma to get the shelled 

 corn, \\lien she reached home she went to where there were cedar 

 trees and picked some cedar berries and putting them m her shallow 

 basket and putting the basket on her head, she went hurrying along 

 to where the Jackrabbit and the Bluejay were grinding. When she 

 arrived there she said: "Now I have brought the shelled corn; now 

 I shall join in grinding." When the Jackrabbit and the Bluejay 

 saw the shallow basket of cedar berries, they said to the Coyote: 

 "We do not grind cedar berries here on oiu- metates, because it 

 makes the metates look brown and it wUl not come off." As they 

 told her thus, she went outside again and threw the cedar berries 

 away and went back to Tciuthoma. 



When she arrived home she put the best shelled corn that she 

 had in the basket, put it on her head, and agam went hunying 

 along to where the Jackrabbit and the Bluejay were grindmg. When 

 she arrived there, the Jackrabbit said to her: "Now you may grind; 

 that shelled corn that you have is very good." As the Old Coyote 

 Woman was told thus, she put the shelled corn on a metate and the 

 three of them ground. 



As they ground, the Jackrabbit said to the Old Coyote Woman: 

 "This time let us grind with all our strength to see who is the strongest 

 to grind. So we will close our eyes and grind." The Old Coyote 

 Woman said: "Very well." Then they all started to grind with all 

 their might. As the Old Coyote Woman was grinding with all her 

 might, the Jackrabbit and the Bluejay hit her on the head with 

 their handstones, as she was grinding in the middle, and killed her. 



So that is the reason that people grind. 



The Old Coyote a.nd the Thkee Gourds 



Long ago three Gourds were living at Kopui. Once they came out 

 of their hole to bask. As they sat basking. Old Coyote also came 

 out of his hole to bask just opposite. "Let us call the Old Coyote 

 names; if he should come after us, we will flee into our hole," said 

 the Gom-ds. So they started to call Old Coyote names, from where 

 they were basking. "Old Coyote, unsuccessful hunter, wet worn- 

 out moccasins, pitch mouth!" As the Old Coyote heard the Gourds 

 from where he was basking, he said to them: "If you keep calling 

 me names I will go over there and bite every one of you." "Old 



