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was a big pile on the ground. Then the Squirrel ran up the tree and 
said: ‘‘Now, grandfather, you may eat those nuts.”’ Coyote-Man then 
said: ‘‘Grandchildren, these taste very good. Grandchildren, take pity 
on your grandfather and teach him how to do that trick.”” Then the 
Squirrel said: ‘‘Go; you can do that three or four times a day, but not 
more than three or four times.” 
Coyote-Man ran to his home, called his wife, told her to cut him, and 
down poured pecans. The children gathered around and ate, and after 
they had eaten all of them up, he said: ‘‘Did you all have enough?” 
They said: ‘‘No.’’ Then he told his wife to cut him again, and again they 
had pecans to eat. Four times he was cut and then he tried the fifth 
time. When the woman brought her knife down upon him, instead of 
pecans, blood flowed out and he became scared and ran to the Squirrels. 
He came to the Squirrels and said: ‘“‘My grandchildren, I must have 
made a mistake. The blood is flowing from me.”” The Squirrels said: 
““Thatis wrong. Weknew that you would not doas we told you. We will 
- stopthe blood and heal the wound, but the power is all taken from you.”’ 
He went along the banks of a creek and he found some Beavers. He 
commenced to beg of them for something to eat. One of the Beavers 
told him to go and get some bark from a cottonwood tree. When he 
brought the bark the Beaver told Coyote-Man to rub his hands upon the 
bark, so that they would become soft. Then the Beavers told him to 
take his knife and cut his scrotum, which he did. As soon as Coyote- 
Man cut himself oil came out and the Beaver poured the oil over the 
powdered bark. The Beaver told Coyote-Man to stir the bark up, and 
when Coyote-Man did that the mixture turned into pemmican. Coyote- 
Man ate the pemmican and then he began to beg of the Beaver to teach 
him to do the same thing. The Beavers taught him and told him that 
he could do that four times a day and no more. 
Old Coyote-Man went home. He told his wife to get her knife and 
catch hold of his scrotum and cut it. He placed some pounded bark 
under him which he had gathered on his way. When she cut him the 
oil came out, and he poured it over the bark and made pemmican. The 
children ate of it, but they did not seem to get enough, so he tried it for 
four times. The children did not have enough, and he tried it the fifth 
time. When the woman cut him there came out blood instead of oil. 
He ran to the Beavers and told them that he had made a mistake and he 
wanted them to heal him. The Beavers healed him up, but they took 
the power from him. 
Coyote-Man went along and wandered over the country. One fine 
day he got into a thick timber. As he went along he saw a Bear coming. 
