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WTieu they were ready to throw tlio ki"ts the youiifj man said, 

 "Your eano is lookini; at me very sharply: I wotild Hke to liave it 

 turned the other way. " 



Sandy Coyote replied, ''No one can move it in any way. I can 

 not, nor can you." 



"Well, suppo.se J pull it out ami turn it the otiier way, then I 

 shall wm the wager: and if I can not, then you shall win." 



The other agreed : so he got nyi and moved the cane around as he 

 wi.shed, thus winning the final wager. Then the young man grasped 

 Sandy Coj'otc by the hair and shook liim until he dropped down 

 dead. Taking all that he had won, the young man went home. 



,\fter a time his mother said she would like to go to where her 

 people were living. After some preparation they started on their 

 journey. At the end of the first day they camped. During the 

 night the mother turned henself into a gray spider. Tlie second day 

 they went on again and camped in the evening. That night the 

 elder wife turned herself into a black spider. At the end of the next 

 day's journey they camjied again, and that night the remaining wife 

 turned herself into a yellow spider. The young man was left alone 

 the next day, but he hoped to reach his mother's peoi)le, aiid so jour- 

 neyed on until nightfall, when he camped. During the night he 

 turned lumself into a rough black lizard. 



Even to this day Coyote is known as the wise one. It is dan- 

 gerous to kill or harm him, for he will avenge himself by stealing or 

 doing worse mischief. He knows well the house of the one who tries 

 to injure him, no matter where tlie deed may have been perfornu'd. 

 -Vnd yet lie is not always unfriendly, for if he is heard to cry out as 

 if jumping it is a warning that the Apaches are nvav and danger 

 menaces. 



AXOTHEK VERSION" OK THE f'RE.lTIOX M'iTH " 



l)ef()re the earth was made notiiing but darkness. It lias l)(>en found 

 only wind blows came I'oliing from one place to another, nothing but 

 wind, at the time tiiere was a man in the darkness alone, and has told 

 that this man was wandering from point to point. 

 This has been for (juite awhile, and no pleace for to rest on. So the 

 man feel himself and know that he was a num by himself, and more of 

 he found a push called (Shi(|uia) '" and after he found this, and he call 

 (Shi(iuia) 

 Anil also he made the earth, and so he call himself a God. now at the 



" It si'eras worth while to present here the version of the cosmogonieal myth which wa.i written 

 for the author by a young Pima who had learned to write EnglLsh during the term of several years 

 which he spent at a Government .school, rt illustrates the confusion existing in the minds of the younger 

 generation; to some extent, also, the order ol words in the I'ima sentence, as well as the dilliculties that 

 must s|>eedily beset the ethnological investigator as soon as the older people shall have gone. 



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