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are making remarks about my head.”’ At the same time Coyote was 
wondering how he could manage to have connection with this Scalped- 
Woman. 
He said: “‘I am talking about a pot. When my grandmother puts 
meal into the boiling pot the mush overflows.” After a time Coyote 
yelled and said: ‘I did mean you.” Scalped-Woman jumped up 
and said: “‘I will kill you.”’ She ran after him. Coyote went over 
the hill and changed himself into a queer-looking man. He had on his 
chin a little buffalo grass, so that his chin looked as if he had whiskers 
like an old man. Near him was a patch of tobacco. The woman came 
up and saw him standing there, and said: ‘‘ You tobacco grower, did you 
see Coyote pass by here?’’ Coyote pretended that he was a man and 
mumbled to himself. The woman said: ‘‘That man can not under- 
stand. I guess Coyote went on by.’’ She went on over the hill. 
Coyote-man turned into Coyote and called after her: ‘‘I did mean 
you.”” Scalped-Woman started after Coyote again, and almost caught 
him. Coyote ran over the hill again and stood there, a warrior, with 
great powers. He had jointed grass that looked like feathers stuck up 
around his head. He sang a song about the grass warrior: 
This grass I walk around 
When I walk around, 
Grass I have as I start out as a warrior. 
This grass I walk around 
When I walk around, 
Grass I have as I start out as a warrior. 
Scalped-Woman said: ‘‘ Warrior, did you see a man pass by here?”’ 
Coyote kept on singing as if he did not know her, but she continued to 
question him. Finally Coyote said, impatiently: ‘‘Why do you talk to 
me? I will shoot you with these arrows. Do not talk to me any more.” 
The woman went on. After she had gone over the jhill, the warrior 
turned into Coyote again and said: ‘‘I did mean you.’”’ Scalped-Woman 
started again and was about to catch him. Coyote crawled into a hole 
in a rocky place and came out on the other side. Scalped-Woman 
crawled in after him and became fast. Coyote raised her dress and they 
had connection. Then the woman began to kick. She said: ‘“‘Let me 
get out, so that we can do it right.”” Coyote kept on and Scalped- 
Woman got loose. She went up to Coyote and hit him with her hand 
and said: ‘‘You are a rascal. You are now my husband.” They went 
_ off and lived a while together; then Coyote pretended that he was going 
on ahunt. He went off and never came back. 
