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am sitting here, and they sent you. What did your grandfather say my 
name was?’ asked Coyote. The calf began to sing: 
Now your name is 
““ He-who-Lets-them-Pass-Unharmed.”’ 
Now your name is 
** He-who-Lets-them-Pass-Unharmed.’’ 
Said Coyote: ‘‘That is my name. He told you right. And what is 
_ your name, little calf?” The calf began to sing: 
Now my name is 
** Poor-Pitiful-Calf.”’ 
Now my name is 
** Poor-Pitiful-Calf,”’ 
“Oh, yes,’’ said Coyote, ‘‘then you are poor. I feel sorry for you. 
And what else did your grandfather call me?” The calf began to sing 
again, and said: 
Now your name is 
‘““Takes-Pity-upon-the-Weak.”’ 
Now your name is 
*“Takes-Pity-upon-the-Weak.°”’ 
The calf went by and began to run fast. All the time Coyote was 
talking the calf had to think what to do and what to say. He had gone 
some distance when Coyote began to think, ‘‘Why, Iam hungry. Why 
did I not kill him and eat him? I am very foolish.’’ Then he arose and 
began to halloo at Poor-Calf, but Poor-Calf was far away from Coyote. 
He kept on running. Poor-Calf disappeared and Coyote began to cry. 
He went to a hillside and lay down where the sun shone, and went to 
sleep and died. This is why we find coyotes lying on the side of hills. 
They die of hunger. 
65. THE GATHERING OF THE PRIESTS.* 
There was a Coyote village. These people made up their minds to 
open their sacred bundle. When they were about to openthe bundle 
the young men jumped upon their ponies and went out to kill buffalo. 
As the old men sat down in the lodge with the bundle, the crier was sent 
through the village to let the women know that the old men were about 
to open the bundle and sing songs. When the bundle was opened a crier 
was told to go through the village and tell the women to bring dry wood 
to the lodge of the priests; also to bring some green willows upon which 
1Told by Thief, Kitkehahki. The story illustrates the importance of women 
gathering wood for the priests’ lodge and of girls preparing the mush for the priests’ 
feast. 
