458 COYOTE TALES. 
Gizzard! Gizzard! 
Lift your necks high, then low, 
Waving your tails to and fro. 
Tut! Tut! (Sound of turkey when jumping.) 
As he sang the song the Turkeys stretched their necks and placed them 
on the ground, but they watched Coyote, for as he danced among them 
he would open his mouth as if to bite their necks. The Turkeys would 
say: ‘‘His mouth is open! Look out!’’ But Coyote sang louder. They 
danced and danced, and all at once Coyote jumped and bit the necks 
of the two biggest Turkeysandkilledthem. Theothersranaway. ‘‘Ah!”’ 
said Coyote, ‘‘I am quite a cheat; my children will have plenty to eat.” 
Coyote took the two Turkeys home and said: ‘Children, pick the 
feathers off and cut the meat off and put it in the pot and cookit. Iam 
going to ask some of the chiefs to eat with me, but I will save some meat 
for you.’’ He went off, and after he came back he sent his children and 
wife away. He went into their tipi and sat down. Once in a while he 
would swing the skin that hung over the entrance and say: ‘‘ Nawa, take 
. this seat.’ The children could hear some one else say: ‘‘ Nawa, thanks;” 
and they thought that there were many people. After a while Coyote 
made a speech and said: “‘I have two Turkeys boiling and I invite you to 
help me eat them.”’ Hesaid ‘‘Nawa’”’ a number of times; so the little 
ones thought that there were many people in the tipi. Old Coyote took 
the kettle off and commenced to dish out the meat. He went from one 
plate to another and ate ail of the meat by himself. One of the children 
went in and saw his father eating by himself, and went back and told his 
mother. They all came out and made a rush into the tipi, and old 
Coyote ran away and the children had only bones to eat and they were 
left to hunt food for themselves. 
135, COYOTE AND THE TURKEYS ROLL DOWN THE HILL.’ 
Coyote was going along and he saw many Turkeys sliding down a hill. 
“What shall I do?” he said to himself. ‘‘I will go back and get a sack 
and show these Turkeys something new.’’ He got his sack and went 
back to where the Turkeys were. ‘‘Now, my grandchildren, I have some- 
thing new. Watch me go into this sack. When I am inside tie it fast. 
Now roll me down the hill.”” As he rolled down the hill he laughed and 
laughed, and said: “‘It is very fine to roll down hill.’’ At the foot of the 
hill the Turkeys untied the sack and Coyote walked up the hill with them. 
*Told by Fox, Skidi. The story is to teach the children that when they grow 
up and hunt for game and kill it they should always be sure to keep watch over it 
and preserve it. 
