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He'll pay us back again." So the old man told the old woman to 

 boil some water while he was skinning Mm. Then after he skinned 

 him, he cut him in quarters and put him to boil to make soup out of 

 liim. So they had breakfast. The old woman said, "Ha! ha! ha! 

 You ought to get me another one. This soup is fine." So that is 

 the way they lulled the young man who was stealing in the garden, 

 and that is how they showed the little boys to make soup. So from 

 that time on that is the way they make soup; they go out and kill 

 rabbits and make soup to this day. Then the little boys who are 

 hstening to this story will say, "Well, I am going to take bow and 

 arrow and go out and kill rabbits." And the little girls will say, 

 "Well, when you bring the rabbit, I will make soup out of it." 



Kaw'ffi'kyem ! 



H.-^ ! Variant 



There lived an old man and an old woman. They had a garden of 

 chili. Every morning the old man found the chili all gone. He 

 coidd not find out who was stealing it. WTien he came back from 

 the garden, he would say, "Old woman, old woman, again somebody 

 stole our chih." Finally the old man got tired and he decided to 

 make a doll of gum (tar). He put it in the middle of the garden. 

 At night that little pochiida (field rat) came there and said, "Who 

 are you standing there?" The doll did not say anytliing. "If you 

 don't teU me, I am going to hit you with my right hand." The doll 

 said nothing. He hit him. His right hand stuck to the doll. "If 

 you are not going to say anything, I will knock you with my right 

 foot." The doU said nothing. He kicked and his foot stuck. "Are 

 you not going to say anything? I have my left foot yet." He 

 kicked him with liis left foot. Then he stuck all together. Next 

 morning when the old man came there, he found the tliief. He took 

 him home to his house and said, "Old woman, old woman, here I 

 have brought you the thief this time." The old woman asked the 

 little field rat, "What made you steal all my chdi like that and leave 

 me none at all?" The little field rat said it was because he wanted 

 to eat some chih, too. The old woman said, "If you wanted to eat 

 some chili, why did you not buy some? " And then they lulled him. 



28. Holding Up the Mesa; Schoolmaster to the Bees; Hail 

 Coming; Moon Cheese 



One time Coyote (tu'w'e) was hving in the woods (nakai, Mexican, 

 bosque). He was eating a hen from a chicken house. He was very 

 much pleased with it, so he was just playing ^vith it. At that time 

 tuSv'eshou (coyote blue, Mexican, sorra) was coming along on the 

 road. He saw tu'w'ehih (Coyote old man) playing with the chicken. 



