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you may take the blood and other things that are left here. I am going 
after my children, and when I come back we will divide the meat.”’ 
Coyote then went off after his children. While Turtle sat there watch- 
ing the meat he thought to himself: “‘I know Coyote; he is a cheat. 
He will bring his children, take all the meat, and give me none.’’ He saw 
two Bald-Eagles flying overhead. Turtle cried to them and said: “My 
grandfathers, I have some meat here. Take it up on a high tree, for 
Coyote is coming to take it away from me.’’ The Bald-Eagles took the 
meat and flew up to a high cottonwood tree and placed it in an eagle’s 
nest. Turtle told the Eagles to take him up there. The Eagles took 
Turtle up and placed him in the nest. Then Turtle made a fire and began 
to cook some meat. In the meantime Coyote and his children went to 
the place and found nothing but blood upon the ground. The children 
began to lick up the blood, but Coyote was very angry. He went up and 
down the stream, and after a while he saw the reflection of the fire in the 
water. He said: ‘‘There is Turtle in the water cooking the meat. I 
will get the meat away from him and killhim. You stay here and watch, 
and when you see the charred coal come up and float on the water, you 
may know that I have scattered his fire.’’ Coyote dived, and his head 
caught between two logs under the water. The children stood upon the 
bank watching for the charred coals to come up. After a whilethey saw 
some things coming up. They said: ‘‘See; our father is scattering the 
fire of Turtle.’ It was Coyote’s excrement, and when Turtle saw that 
Coyote was dead, he spoke to the children and said: ‘‘How would you 
like to have some meat?’ They looked, and up there in the tree they 
saw Turtle with all the meat. Coyote’s children cried and ran away. 
131. COYOTE AND BEAR.’ 
Coyote was going along through the timber, when all at once a Bear 
jumped from the bushes and faced him. Coyote was scared nearly to 
death, and he said to himself: ‘‘ What shall I do?’’ He took his bow in 
his hand, and beating upon it with his arrow he sang this song: 
I can still the rivers which flow and they stop. 
What shall I do with this rough-handed fellow standing before me? 
I can kill him with my bow and arrows. 
At that time, it being hot weather, the waters had gone down and the 
bed of the river had become dry. Bear saw that the creek was nearly 
*Told by White-Eagle, Skidi. This story is told to the children to teach them 
that they must not make war on people who have greater powers than they them- 
selves possess. 
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