442 COYOTE TALES. 
he saw a big drove of Coyotes at a distance. He began to yell and say: 
‘Coyotes, you must not come this way, for I have a lot of cooked meat 
here and I do not want you to come near me.’’ The Coyotes stopped 
and said: ‘‘Listen; that man is calling us. He says he has a lot of meat 
cooked near where he is.’”” The Coyotes ran to where he was. They 
got to the meat, began to eat it, and finally they ate it allup. They then 
went away. Just as they went away the trees opened and Coyote-Man 
got loose. He went down and began to scold himself for allowing the 
other Coyotes to eat up his meat. He had to lick the grease which had 
dropped from the meat, for that was all that was left. 
Coyote-Man went on through another timber, when he met a strange 
man. The man had on a buzzard cap, a buffalo robe, an eagle wing in his 
left and a gourd rattle in his right hand. Upon his back was his medi- 
cine-bag. When Coyote-Man met this man he said: “‘Grandchild, where 
are you going?’’ The strange man said: ‘‘I am going to a village west 
of here. I am doctoring the chief’s son, who was wounded in battle. 
To-day I doctor him for the last time. I am to bathe him and then I 
receive my pay in presents.’’ Coyote-Man said: ‘‘What do you do when 
you approach the village?’’ The man said: ‘‘When I approach the 
village I stop and sit down for a little while. Then I get up and sing: 
With a medicine-case on his back. 
With a medicine-case on his back. 
With a medicine-case on his back. 
With a medicine-case on his back. 
With a medicine-case on his back. 
With a medicine-case on his back.’? 
As he sang he danced the way he did when he was near the village. 
Then the man said: ‘‘When I am through dancing I walk closer to the 
village and then I sing again.’’ Coyote-Man said: ‘‘Sing it again.” 
The man began to sing and dance. Coyote-Man began to dance with him. 
He kept on asking the man to sing and dance until he learned both the 
dance and the song. Then he asked him what he did when he went in to 
doctor the wounded man. The man told all that he did, and also told how 
he was to let all the people go out of the lodge and he was to bathe the sick 
man and then he was to receive his pay. When Coyote-Man thought he 
knew all the songs he took a club, hit the man on the head, and killed him. 
Then he removed his clothing and put them on himself. He went onto 
the village. As he went out from the timber he stopped and began to 
sing the song he had learned from the medicine-man. After he had sung 
and danced four times he went on. When he was near the village he 
stopped and sang and danced, just as the medicine-man had told him. 
