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accomplish the task assigned to them. Year after year they returned 

 without success. At last Coyote was sent to liberate the inhabitants 

 of the cave, who exclaimed as they saw him coming, ' ' Now, we have 

 a visitor who will do us harm." They thought to appease his appe- 

 tite by offering a piece of meat in the hope that he would eat it and go 

 away. When Coyote had roasted the meat in the fire and looked 

 about him, he saw the gate of the cave and this is what happened: 

 ' ' Where shall I put this meat ? It is hot. Where shall I put it « It is 

 hot," he said, and then ran straight to the door of the cave. Before 

 the occupants could recover fi"om their alarm he threw open the door 

 and out swarmed the deer and other game animals as pour forth the 

 bees from a newly opened hive. 



Coyote ran for his life and the people pursued him, but he escaped 

 and went to live in the water in the west. 



When A-anhitiipaki Si'van'', Feather-breathing Si' vans', was a boy 

 he was mischievous and troid^led his grandmother. He went to the 

 cave of the Wmds and saw the bow. He made one like it and showed 

 it to his fellows, but they handled it and so took away its power. He 

 made several bows, but the people ruined them by looking at them 

 or handling them. At last they ceased trou])ling him and he was able 

 to kill rabbits and give them away. 



Seeing that he was a good shot, the people told him to take his stand 

 at the two hills and close the gap. He went as directed, but instead 

 of shooting the deer as they were driven past he paid no attention to 

 them, Imt occupied himself in building a fence of brush fi-om one hill 

 to the other. 



Again they told him to perch in a tree above a game trail and watch 

 for anything that might pass under him. He did so and saw the game 

 running, but did not shoot. 



A third time they drove the animals toward him and instructed him 

 to shoot the pregnant ones, as they would be fat. He took his place 

 and shot a pregnant woman instead of a doe. 



The fourth time they told him to shoot an old one (meaning a deer 

 with large antlers), and he killed an old man. 



Then he showed that he had magic power, for he was able to go out 

 and bring in deer without taking days of time like other hunters. He 

 built a house (Va'-aki, now one of the ruins of Salt river), married, and 

 settled down. Viintre was a thief, gambler, liar, and profligate who 

 came to the house of A-anhittipaki Si'van'', who, knowing his char- 

 acter, did not wish to see him. Viintre brought four reeds filled with 

 tobacco, lighted one, and smoked it. A-anhitupaki Si'van>' would 

 not speak to him and Vantre finally went away. This happened three 

 nights, but not a word was spoken until the fourth night, when 

 A-anhitupaki told Viintre he would be his friend if Viintre would stop 

 lying, stealing, antl the like. He would make the sticks called 



