COYOTE-MAN AND HIS TRICKS. 443 
After he was through dancing he sat down upon the ground. After a 
while the men came out for him, placed a robe upon the ground, and placed 
Coyote-Man on the robe. Then these men carried Coyote-Man to the 
lodge. When Coyote-Man was placed in the lodge he took his bundle, 
put it in the lodge, and said: ‘‘ You people can now go out from the lodge 
and stay at a distance, for I am to wash this young man and put medi- 
cine upon him.”’ The people went out and stood some distance away. 
Coyote-Man took a kettle, placed it upon the fire, and went and got a piece 
of iron. This he placed in the fire. Then he told the wounded man to 
sit near the fire and he would wash his wound. The man began to feel 
of the wound and it was almost healed. Coyote-Man took the red-hot 
iron from the fire, rammed it into the side of the young man, and said: 
‘This is the way I doctor you. I will kill you and that will be the end of 
you.” He killed him, took out his knife, and cut him up. He cut the 
meat into small slices and put it in a kettle. 
After he had eaten he saw a little Snake crawling up towards him, and 
the Coyote-Man said: ‘‘My grandson, I will give you something to eat.” 
Coyote-Man cut a strip of meat and shoved it down into the throat of the 
Snake, so that it was nearly choked and could not speak. The Snake 
crawled out of the lodge and went to where the people were. It was 
windy, so that when the Snake tried to speak the people could not hear it. 
The Snake came close to one person and spoke to him. The Snake spoke 
very low, for it could hardly speak on account of the meat which was down 
in its throat. The person then said: ‘‘ People, this Snake says something.”’ 
They all stopped and listened and the Snake spoke again in a whisper and 
said: ‘‘That man killed the boy in the lodge some time ago, and has eaten 
him up.” 
The people then ran to the lodge and there they found the bones of 
the boy and some of the meat still boiling, but the man was gone. They 
hunted for him through the timber, but they could not find him. His 
medicine-bag and other things were left in the lodge. 
Coyote-Man, after he left the lodge, went through the timber, and after 
a while he went out and began to climb a hill. As he reached the top of 
the hill he saw several Buzzards sitting upon the hill. Then he began to 
talk to the Buzzards and they listened to him. Coyote-Man asked the 
Buzzards to carry him up into the sky, so that he could look down as they 
did and see what the earth was like. Two Buzzards went away, while 
two remained behind. The two who remained behind told Coyote-Man 
to put his arms around their necks and they would take him up. When 
the Buzzards flew the Coyote-Man would say: ‘‘Grandchildren, wait, 
wait; I can not stand this. You might drop me.” 
