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that if any people should come he could smell them for a long distance 
and could run from them. While Coyote-Buffalo was grazing he saw a 
Coyote sitting near him, and Coyote-Buffalo said: ‘‘My grandchild, what 
do you want?’’ Coyote said that he was starving and would like to be 
like the Buffalo, so that he could get plenty of grass to eat. Coyote- 
Buffalo said: ‘‘Thatis easy. I was a Coyote, but I was turned into a 
Buffalo. You find a buffalo wallow and I will take pity upon you and 
make you like a Buffalo. You must be brave, and then you shall be like 
me.” The Coyote found a buffalo wallow and they went to it. Coyote- 
Buffalo put the Coyote into the buffalo wallow and told him to stand 
there. Then Coyote-Buffalo ran toward the Coyote, thinking that he 
would have the power to turn the Coyote into a Buffalo. He ran, and 
when he tried to hook the Coyote, the Coyote turned around and tried to 
bite him. As Coyote-Buffalo struck the Coyote he turned into a Coyote 
again and there were two Coyotes with their mouths locked together. 
When he got loose, Coyote who had been a Buffalo began to call the 
other Coyote names, and said: ‘‘You have done me a great wrong. 
I am now a Coyote again.” The other Coyote ran away. 
Coyote who had been a Buffalo went back to the Buffalo and said: 
‘Grandfather, Iam sorry. When I was running I fell down and I turned 
into a Coyote again. Take pity upon me and I will be more careful after 
this.’’ The Buffalo told Coyote to find another buffalo wallow. Coyote 
found it and stood in the buffalo wallow, and the Buffalo ran, and as his 
horns struck Coyote he again turned into a Buffalo. He said: ‘‘ Now, do 
not try to turn Coyotes into Buffalo, but stay with me.”’ 
After they were together for several days, Coyote-Buffalo said: ‘I will 
travel towards the west;’”’ and the Buffalo said: ‘‘Good! On your way 
you will meet twenty Buffalo running fast. There will be nineteen Buf- 
falo cows and one bull. When the bull sees you and stops he will say: 
‘Join us; let us go where the people are, so that we may receive smoke. ’ 
Do not listen to him. You must not go with him. You must stay away 
from him.”’ Coyote said: ‘‘Grandfather, I will do as you say.”” Coyote- 
Buffalo went west. For several days he traveled, and one evening he 
heard Buffalo coming, running fast. He jumped up and stood in the 
pathway. The Buffalo cows passed, but when the bull came up he said: 
“My brother, let us go where the people are, so that we may receive 
smoke.’’ Coyote-Buffalo said: ‘‘Good! I will go with you.’”’ They be- 
gan torun. Towards evening they overtook the Buffalo cows and they 
went on together. In the evening the Buffalo sat down to rest. Then 
the Buffalo bull said: ‘‘It is not far to go where we are going, and there 
we shall receive smoke.”’ Coyote-Buffalo said: ‘‘Let us, then, start again 
