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and get there as soon as we can.’”’ The Buffalo arose, and they ran for 
some time in the night. When they came to ravines they squatted down 
and Coyote-Buffalo said: ‘‘My brother, let us now smoke.”” The Buffalo 
bull said: ‘‘ Why, do you not know what I mean when I say that we are 
going for smoke?’ Coyote-Buffalo did not know, but he said: ‘‘Oh, 
I had forgotten. We are not to get smoke yet.’ In the morning they 
started again. Everytime they stopped Coyote-Buffalo would say: ‘‘Let 
us now smoke.”’ The Buffalo would say: ‘‘Why, do you not know what 
I mean when I say that we are going for smoke?’’ Coyote would say: 
“Thad forgotten. I remember nowwhatitis.”” Then the Buffalo started 
on again and at last they came close to the village. They squatted down 
in the ravine and sat there. 
Early in the morning scouts were sent out from the people and they 
found the Buffalo sitting in the ravine. The scouts went and told the 
people that there was a herd of Buffalo close to the village. The old men 
cried through the village and told the men to surround the Buffalo. The 
men went out, surrounded the Buffalo, and they killed all the Buffalo. 
The men said that the Buffalo were holy and that their meat was to be 
taken to the lodge of the priest. Several men ran after one Buffalo that 
could run faster than the others. They ran this Buffalo over some hills, 
and just as one man got near the Buffalo, the Buffalo came to a place where 
there was a high precipice. The Buffalo fell as the man was about to 
shoot, and as he fell the Buffalo turned into a Coyote andran away. The 
men were surprised when they saw the Buffalo turn into a Coyote. They 
went home and told about it. The old people said that this Coyote must 
have been turned into a Buffalo by some other Buffalo. Coyote ran 
back to where the Buffalo bull was grazing and said: ‘‘My grandfather, 
I joined those people who went to get smoke from the people. The people 
ran after me and I stumbled over some bad places. I fell down and turned 
into a Coyote. Take pity upon me and let me turn into a Buffalo 
again.” Buffalo bull said: ‘‘ Find me a buffalo wallow.”’ Coyote found a 
buffalo wallow and they went to it. Coyote stood in the wallow and the 
Buffalo bull ran towards him and hooked him and threw him up into the 
air. Before he struck the ground he hooked him again and again, until he 
killed him. Ever since that time the Coyotes have been willing to be 
Coyotes, and the Buffalo have always disliked Coyotes. 
