216 TALES OF READY-TO-GIVE. 
Something whispered and told me. 
It was the Wind blowing, saying, 
‘Your grandmother, she is 
Black-Frost-Woman.”’. 
Thanks, thanks, 
Thanks, thanks. 
Something whispered and told me. 
It was the Wind blowing, saying, 
“Your grandfather, he is 
White-Forehead-Bull.”’ 
Thanks, thanks, 
Thanks, thanks. 
The people were astonished to hear what the calf sang, for they thought 
that the girl was still a virtuous girl. The calf kept on singing about its 
mother until the chief gave command for the herd to rest. The calf 
tan up to its mother and began to nurse; then the people knew that 
she was truly its mother, and so they made her throw down the bundle, 
for she was now a mother and not a virtuous woman, and so unfit to 
carry the sacred bundle. Then the chief of the Buffalo said: ‘‘The peo- 
ple who kill and live on us shall do the same. It shall not always be 
that a girl will give birth when she is married, but there will be times when 
unmarried girls of high birth will have children.’’ Ever since that time 
some of our people have illegitimate children. 
64. THE HUNGRY COYOTE." 
Coyote was out hunting something to eat when he saw many buffalo 
tracks. He was very thin, for he had had nothing to eat for several days. 
He sang this song: 
Here, here it is (buffalo path). 
Once it was that he watched me, did 
Ready-to-Give, when I sat watching, 
Waiting for them (buffalo) to come this way. 
Here, here it is. 
While he was singing he heard the beat of buffalo hoofs. He looked 
up and there he saw a young calf. Coyote said: ‘‘There comes my 
meat. I will kill the calf and eat him.’’ As soon as the calf came up, 
Coyote said: ‘‘Why, here comes Round-Eyes, my grandson. And who 
told you to come this way?’’ The calf said, ‘‘My grandfather told me 
to follow this trail.’’ Coyote said: ‘‘That is right. They know that I 
1Told by Thief, Kitkehahki. The story is told to children who ask to dance 
when the songs are being sung. It explains the presence of many dead coyotes on 
the plains, and especially teaches children that when they kill game they should not 
look around to see what others are doing. 
