420 ISLETA, NEW MEXICO [eth. ann. 47 



last they came out and stung him all over, eyes and nose and every- 

 where. So Coyote old man said, "No, children, do not play! I want 

 you boys to learn well." At last he had to run away, the bees follow- 

 ing him to sting. At last he came to some water and went into the 

 water and the bees left him. Then he went after Fox. He was 

 crying and all swollen up. "Now this is the last time. Wherever I 

 catch Fox, I am going to eat him up." 



At last he reached Fox, imder a big tree. He had a gunny sack with 

 him, tied with a rope. "Now, Fox, I am going to eat you up. You 

 fooled me wath those children. I am going to eat you up." Fox was 

 tightening the gunny sack with the rope. "Friend," he said, "I do 

 not know what we are going to do. I am afraid we are going to be 

 killed to-day." "Why?" "Do you know what is going to happen?" 

 "What?" "The people in these houses here say it is going to hail 

 and kill us. So I am getting ready this gimny sack to hang on this 

 tree to be under the leaves so that hail won't hit me. Well, friend, 

 you better rim away to your cave; but I am going to hang myself in 

 this sack to this tree." Coyote old man said, "No, friend, hang me 

 first!" "All right, I am stronger than you. I could hang you and 

 then myself. But we better hang before the hail strikes," he said. 

 So Fox put Coyote old man inside of the sack and hung it up on the 

 branch of a tree. When he hung him up, he said, "I do not know 

 what I am going to do. I shall be killed with the hail. How do you 

 feel up there?" he asked Coyote old man. "Are you safe?" "Yes, 

 it looks dark here. The hail can not see me." "All right, my friend, 

 you shall be saved. Shut your eyes tight." Then Fox went around 

 and gathered lots of small stones and piled them up. After he piled 

 them up, he threw them at the leaves and branches of the tree. "Look 

 out!" he said. "The hail is coming; I am going to die here." Then 

 Fox threw the stones at the sack. "Oh!" said Coyote old man, "the 

 hail strikes hard." He threw all the stones at him and then he ran 

 away, leaving Coyote hanging in the tree. Coyote hung there until 

 it got dark. Then he began to bite at the sack and tear it, and he fell 

 down from the tree. 



He tracked Fox again. "I am surely going to kill him this time," 

 he said. It was night. At last he found him at a pond near woods. 

 Fox was sitting there. Coyote old man said, "I have caught you. I 

 am going to eat you this time." Fox said, "Friend, do not make 

 any noise. Look way down! There is a cheese. I want you to tie 

 me by the waist and lower me down, so I can get that cheese for 

 our supper." The moon was shining. (Coyote old man believes 

 everything Fox says.) Fox was preparing the rope to be tied with. 

 Coyote old man was greedy. "No, friend," he said, "you tie me, I'll 

 go in and get the cheese." So he tied him, and he tied the end of the 

 rope to a tree stump. "Now, jump, friend!" he said. So Coyote 



