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the men were playing with the gambling sticks. There he sat down by 
himself and watched the game. 
After a while a young man came to where he was sitting and said: 
‘“‘Dragging-the-Stone, the chief of these people invites you to eat dinner 
with him.’”’ Dragging-the-Stone looked up at him and said: ‘‘Has 
not the chief a mouth to eat the things he has to eat? Tell him that 
Dragging-the-Stone says that he does not care to sit with him to eat.” 
When the young man returned and told the people what Dragging-the- 
Stone had said, they said: ‘‘This must be a wonderful man.” In a 
little while another man came and said: ‘‘ Dragging-the-Stone, the giant, 
the wonderful being, invites you to come and eat dinner with him.” 
Dragging-the-Stone then said: ‘‘Has not the wonderful being, the 
giant, a mouth? He shall eat alone of the food that he has prepared 
forme toeat. Tell him I do not care to go and eat with him.”” When 
the man reported to the giant, the wonderful being, what Dragging-the- 
Stone had said, the giant said: ‘‘He must be a wonderful man. He 
must be either equal to me or more wonderful than I in power.” After 
a while another man came and said: ‘‘ Dragging-the-Stone, the bravest 
man in the village here invites you to eat with him.”’ Dragging-the- 
Stone looked at the man and said: ‘‘The brave man hasa mouth. Let 
him eat what he has. I do not care to eat with him.’”’ When the brave 
man heard what Dragging-the-Stone said, he was afraid, and he told the 
people that this man must be a wonderful man. 
Towards evening, after all had stopped playing with the sticks, 
Dragging-the-Stone got up and went to the poorest lodge that he could 
find in the village where lived an old Coyote and his wife, and he made 
his home with these people. Everyone in the village was afraid of 
Dragging-the-Stone, and none went near him. The old Coyote told 
Dragging-the-Stone that there was a wonderful being in their village; 
that when people killed buffalo this wonderful being went to the fattest 
buffalo and told the people that he was going to have the buffalo, and 
they had tolet him have it, for he was bad and either killed them or blew 
them away. Dragging-the-Stone said: ‘“‘I wish to meet this wonder- 
ful being, for I do not like him to be robbing the people of their meat.”’ 
One fine, bright morning an old man began tocry through the village 
asking certain men to go out into the country to find buffalo. He sang 
as follows: 
Hurry, bring your bow and arrows. 
You, Coyote, of the Claw-Shield, 
You are to look for buffalo, 
You are to look for buffalo. 
