HE COYOTE AND THE BUFFALOES. 105 
wi" a ¢ijuaji hégaji. Hau! yje-niga jin’ga, ¢ie-ga. Hau! ké, gidugaq¢e 
one ilL-treated very much. Ho! Buffalo-bull young, do you try it. Ho! come, facing the other 
me way 
ele Os) . ral. = oe eF . 1 
najin’-e%, 4-biama. Egi¢e ¢aa™he te. An‘kaji ha, yiga" ha, aqta” aa™he 
stand, said he, they Beware you flee lest. Not so : grandfather, how pos- I flee 
say. sible 
tida, A-biama Mfyasi aké. A¢d-b ega’ edita" idnaxi¢a agi-biamaé. 1h’di 
shall? said, they say Coyote the Went, they having thence todashon him was coming, they There 
(sub.). say say. 
aki-bi yiji Mfyasi jaha-biamé. Maciiha a™¢a i¢é¢a-bi xii gat’ the 
reached when Coyote gored they say. On high throwing sent him when lay killed by 
home, they him him forcibly, they the fall 
say say 
gaxi-biama. Ceta™. 
made him, they say. So far. 
NOTES. 
102, 5. ikiatqti, from ikiae. Since the Buffaloes obtained their food without hav- 
ing to cultivate it, they fared better than men, in the estimation of the Coyote. Their 
food, grass, spread out very thick all over the surface of the ground. (See ukiae, 
ugae, aba‘é, ete., in the Dictionary.) 
102, 5. wit¢ak agt ija" tada”, contracted from wit¢ake aqta™ ija tada, “You can- 
not mean what you say.” 
102, 8. egi¢e naXji® ¢aa™he ¢i™he au. The word ¢i*he is used in strong commands 
or prohibitions. See myth of the Raccoons and the Crabs (Frank La Fléche’s version), 
also that of Two-face and the Two Brothers; and inihe (binihe) in the Dictionary. 
103, 4. a™¢ihega u¢iciqti aha": “He could not hurt me « little with his horns (but 
he would be sure to kill me, or else do me a serious injury).” 
103, 20. peji ké nande-ima™ hi. The idea is that although the Coyote had eaten 
enough to satisfy hunger, the grass was so good that he wished to eat all of it. He 
did not wish to leave any. He could not, in his opinion, eat too much. 
104, 9. ce¢i® hau, said with the voice raised, the last word being emphasized. 
105, 4. gat? ihe, contracted from gat’e ihe. 
TRANSLATION. 
Once a Coyote was going somewhere. And four Buffalo-bulls were grazing as 
they walked. And the Coyote went to them, and prayed to them: “O grandfather, 
and you my grandfathers also, pity me. I wish to live just as you are living.” “Let 
this be the very last time that you speak it,” said the Buffalo-bull. ‘No, grandfather, 
still pity me. You live by eating food that comes up abundantly, without your working 
for it; and I wish to live just so.” “How can you be speaking the truth?” said the aged 
Buffalo-bull who was behind. Still the Coyote would not stop talking. ‘Oho! Blunt- 
horns, do you begin,” said the aged Buffalo. “Oho!” said Blunt-horns. “Come, stand 
with your back to me,” he said to the Coyote. ‘Beware lest you make even the slight- 
est attempt to flee,” said he. “Oh! grandfather! Oh! grandfather! grandfather Oh! 
why should I flee?” The blunt-horned Buffalo-bull kept backing, pawing the ground, 
and bellowing. He also thrust his horns into the ground, sending the pieces flying off 
in all directions. And the Coyote stood peeping at him out of one corner of his eye. 
“Whew! it would be impossible for him not to kill me, if he should touch me,” thought 
the Coyote as he stood there. And he got altogether out of his way. When the 
