432 COYOTE TALES. 
that she should marry a chief.’’ When the old woman placed some heart 
and tongue before the old man and the girl, the old man forgot himself, 
for he was happy thinking that he was now married to his own daughter. 
The little boys who were playing whispered to their mother and said: 
‘Mother, that looks like our father. Both of his eyes are open now.” 
When the old woman looked at Coyote she saw that he was her husband. 
She picked up a club, went up to Coyote, and said: ‘‘Old man, I am glad 
that I found you out before it was too late.”’ He begged and begged, 
but the old woman brought down the club upon his head and smashed 
his skull. The boys jumped on their father, kicked him around, and 
dragged him out. The next day when the people began to break camp, 
the women and children joined them and left Coyote upon the ground. 
They did not bury him. 
When the people see a dead coyote lying upon a village site they say: 
‘*This coyote must have tried to marry his own daughter and was killed.” 
120. COYOTE AND HIS TWO WIVES MEET WONDERFUL-BEING.' 
One fine, bright morning Coyote arose and awakened his two wives. 
When they had eaten their breakfast, Coyote said: ‘‘We will now go 
into the land where the sun travels (meaning the south); there we may 
find some other people, and we will live with them. We are all alone in 
this country, and I am afraid that the giants may find us.” 
They started out and traveled into the southern country. When 
they had been traveling for several days they came to a brook of clear 
water. There they stopped to rest. There was a high hill on the south 
side of the brook. While they were resting, one of the women looked 
up on the high hill and there she saw Wonderful-Being. She pushed 
the other woman and awoke her. Then she awoke her husband. They 
allstoodup. Bothof the women said: “‘ He will killus; let us run away.” 
But Coyote said: ‘‘Let us not run away, but do as I tell you. Put 
your robes close to your bodies and then the strings around them. Then 
pick up those pebbles along the brook and throw them into your robes, 
so that when you jump up and down the stones will rattle and make a 
peculiar noise.’’ The women did as they were told. 
Wonderful-Being came close to them and said: ‘‘What are you peo- 
ple doing and where are you going?’’ Coyote had told the women that 
Told by Buffalo-Come-to-Drink, one of the oldest of the Kitkehahki and a 
medicine-man. ‘This story is told to the people so that they shall have fear of the 
giants, and to let the children know that in olden times the giants were upon the 
earth and were destroyed by the Evening-Star. 
