COYOTE AND HIS TWO WIVES MEET WONDERFUL-BEING. 433 
as soon as he began to dance, for them to dance. Hethought that Won- 
derful-Being was going to crush them and throw their flesh away and 
keep their skins for his own use. 
Coyote paid no attention to the Wonderful-Being, and Wonderful: 
Being again spoke to him and said: ‘‘Do you not hear what I say?” 
Coyote paid no attention to Wonderful-Being, but all at once began to 
jump up and down, and then he sang as follows: 
Here we stand, old woman, 
Truly that looks like the man, 
The wonderful man we killed, 
Whose membrum you struck and counted coup, 
Whose membrum you struck and counted coup. 
Here we stand, old woman, 
Truly that looks like the man, 
The wonderful man we killed, 
Whose membrum you struck and counted coup, 
Whose membrum you struck and counted coup. 
He kept singing and repeating the same words over and over again, and 
as the three kept jumping up and down the stones in their robes began 
to rattle. When the Coyote stopped singing, then the two women began 
to sing, and said: ‘‘Old man, does not this Wonderful-Being look like 
the man we killed yonder? Must we kill him, so that you, old man, may 
count coupon Wonderful-Being? Shallwekill him? Shall we kill him?’’ 
When Wonderful-Being heard the rattling of the pebbles, he did not 
know what to make of it. Then from what he heard of the singing he 
thought that he was going to be killed. Wonderful-Being began to 
move backwards and they kept up the singing and dancing. After 
Wonderful-Being went over the hill he turned and ran. Coyote went 
up on the hill and saw Wonderful-Being running away. Then he called 
his wives and they ran from the place. When they tried to rest, Coyote 
would speak to them of Wonderful-Being, and again they would jump 
up andrun. Coyote would tell them how easily Wonderful-Being could 
have killed them if he had just tried. They kept on running until at 
last the older woman of the two fell over and died. The other one went 
on with Coyote and they came to a rocky place and there they made 
their home. 
This is why we find coyotes in rocky places and also why we find dead 
coyotes upon the prairies. Whenever a coyote gets scared it runs and 
never knows when to stop until it falls down and dies. 
