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The Bear stopped and looked at him and said: ‘‘Grandfather, where are 
you going?’’ Coyote-Man said: ‘‘I am going to a village west of here.’’ 
Coyote-Man asked the Bear where he was going, and the Bear said that he 
was going to his den. As soon as the Bear had gone, Coyote-Man ran 
through the timber and made a big circle. He came to a little creek. 
He put some mud upon his head and upon his body. Then he took white 
clay and put it upon his lips, so that when the clay dried it looked as if 
his lips were chapped. 
After a while he met the Bear. Coyote-Man stopped the Bear and 
said: ‘‘My grandchild, you should take pity on your grandfather. 
You have many things to eat, while I have none. You see how your 
grandfather’s mouth is chapped. You should give a little grease to 
your grandfather to grease his lips. See how his lips are chapped.”’ The 
Bear said: “I know that you are tricky. I can not do that for you.” 
Coyote-Man begged so hard that at last the Bear gave in. Then the 
Bear said: ‘‘Cut me on the loin and take a little tallow to grease your 
lips.’’ The Bear lay down and Coyote-Man took his knife and com- 
menced to cut the Bear. When Coyote-Man began to cut, the Bear 
grunted, for the cut was paining him. Then Coyote-Man would say: 
‘‘Grandchild, I have just begun to cut it.’’ Coyote-Man had already 
made a deep cut. Then he took one of his spiked arrows and put it 
into the wound and rammed it in hard. As he drove it in he said: “I 
thought I could fool you, Bear, and I now kill you.”” Coyote-Man killed 
the Bear. He went through a timber and found a big pile of dried limbs. 
He returned, skinned the Bear, and cut up the meat. Then he took the 
meat to where the pile of dried limbs was, carrying a little at a time. 
He made a big fire and began to roast some of the meat. He did not 
want to eat any of the meat until every piece of it was roasted. When 
the meat was roasted he took a thigh bone and placed it upon some 
leaves. He cut a big piece to eat. 
Right above him he heard the squeaking of a tree. He dropped 
his meat and looked up and said: ‘‘Stop that noise up there. If you 
speak again I will come up there and kill you.’’ He cut another piece 
off and just about that time the tree squeaked again and he threw down 
the meat. Then the squeaking continued. Coyote-Man jumped up, 
ran up the tree, and he saw where the two trees were rubbing, and this 
was what caused the noise. He placed his hands there and said: ‘“‘ Now 
squeak again and see if I don’t catch you and kill you.’”’ The trees moved 
and caught his hand. There he sat in the tree with his hand caught. 
Then he would say: ‘‘My grandchild, let go of my hand now. I want 
to go down and eat and you can squeak all you desire.”” He looked and 
