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dry and he said to himself: ‘‘This must be a wonderful man who can 
make the rivers and streams run dry in this way.” Then he listened 
again and heard another song. Old Coyote sang: 
I overturned even the timber 
That extended over yonder, 
Standing yonder, with my wonderful bow. 
Bear looked around and saw great big trees down, with the roots turned 
up. A few days before there had been a cyclone, which had blown down 
the trees and turned up the roots, and Bear looked at the trees that were 
down, and said: ‘‘Why, this is a wonderful man if he can do all this.’’ 
Then Coyote sang again: 
Even the hills yonder I killed, 
Yes, even the hills yonder. 
Then this rough-chapped, flat-footed one 
I could easily kill 
With my wonderful bow. 
Bear looked over the prairies and saw that there were no hills and moun- 
tains, and he believed Coyote. The people had burned the grass from 
the prairies so that they looked level all over. Then Coyote sang: 
I killed even the waters that 
Flowed through the land 
With my wonderful bow. 
They had bright sunlight when they first met, but Coyote had seen that 
a fog wasrising. Bear said: ‘‘Thisis a wonderful man, for he can make 
the sun disappear.”’ Bear became afraid of Coyote and said: ‘‘ Well, 
grandson, let us travel together.’’ Coyote said: ‘‘All right.” In the 
evening they made a fire, and when they had made the fire, Coyote told 
Bear to cook the meat on hot coals. Bear cooked the meat, and when it 
was done he took it off, but had one eye on Coyote all the time. When 
he made a motion to reach out for something he noticed Coyote jump. 
Bear took the piece of meat and reached out to hand the meat over to 
Coyote and Coyotejumped. Bearsaid: ‘‘Oh, yes! you have been fooling 
me with your big talk,” and he jumped towards Coyote and Coyote ran 
for his life, but Bear caught him and killed him. 
132. COYOTE AND BEAR.’ 
Coyote was going along and he came to thick timber. After going far 
into the woods he came to acedar grove. He had a bow made of willows, 
so that if he pulled on it it would break easily. The bow was dirty and 
1Told by White-Eagle, Skidi. The story is told to the children to teach them 
to listen attentively to the stories of other people, but not always to believe them, 
