COYOTE MARRIES HIS DAUGHTER. 431. 
Then the old man said: ‘‘My wife, when I am dead dig a hole and 
place my body in the hole, but leave my head sticking out, for you know 
that I was very religious and always looked to Tirawa for assistance. 
When you see a man making arrows, when the other people have left 
their village, then you may know that he isachief. If he should ask for 
my daughter let him have her. When they have killed buffalo and you 
see a man coming with only the tongues and the hearts, then you may 
know that he is the chief, and if he asks for our daughter let him have 
her.’”’ Coyote died and was buried just as he wanted to be. His wife 
and children gathered up their belongings and went and joined the other 
people. 
In the meantime Coyote crawled out of the grave and said: ‘‘Now 
my wife thinks [am dead. I must fix myself up so that I can deceive 
my wife and marry my daughter.’’” Heran into the village and he stayed 
close to the grass-lodge where his family lived. The next morning when 
the people broke camp he sat down in the midst of the village site and 
there began to make arrows. When the old woman and her children 
started out they went past Coyote who was making arrows, and the girl 
said: ‘‘ Mother, that looks like our father.’’ The old woman said: ‘‘Come 
daughter, this is the chief and we must not trouble him.’”’ After the 
woman and the children were gone Coyote got up and followed them. 
When they reached the village the girl saw Coyote going through the 
village. The girl was sure that it was her father, and when he entered 
a lodge close to their own she went up to the lodge and peeped in. She 
saw a man sitting inside who looked like her father, the only ese: 
being that this man had but one eye. | 
While they were here in this village the people went out, surrounded 
the buffalo, and killed several. The old man went to the killing and 
begged several people for tongues and hearts. Then he came to the 
village and went past the lodge of his own family. When he heard his 
children talking about the man with the hearts and tongues upon his 
back he stopped. When he turned around he looked at the children, 
but he had only one eye, for he had closed the other one to make the 
children believe that he had but one eye. He said: ‘‘Children, take 
these to your mother and tell her that the chief wants her to eat them.”’ 
The children took the hearts and tongues to their mother. The mother 
made a big fire and was cooking the hearts and tongues when Coyote 
came into the lodge. He had but one eye. He said: ‘‘Woman, being 
the chief of this village, I have looked through the place for a girl to 
marry me. I like your girl the best. I have come to ask for her.’’ 
The old woman said: ‘‘ You shall have my daughter, for her father wished 
