COYOTE AND PRAIRIE-CHICKEN. 461 
Coyote sang and said: 
The cedar berries will poison you, 
You will have a pain in your stomach. 
Prairie-Chicken did not pay any attention to Coyote. Then Coyote 
Sang again: 
Prairie-Chicken yonder, sitting on a limb, 
Somebody is going to bewitch you, 
Prairie-Chicken sang: 
Who now is going to bewitch me, 
And with what shall I be poisoned? 
Coyote sang and said: 
Gravel will poison you, 
With gravel you will be bewitched. 
Prairie-Chicken sang: 
All of the things you mention 
I am fond of; I like to eat them. 
Then Prairie-Chicken flew up and away and Coyote went his way 
among the hills. 
138. COYOTE TRIES TO MARRY RABBIT.’ 
Coyote was going along and he met a female Rabbit. He tried to 
marry her, but she would not have him, and she ran away from him. 
Then the female Rabbit went to another Coyote and tried to marry him. 
The Coyote began to sing: 
Rabbit-Woman, standing here, 
Rabbit-Woman, standing here, 
Wants to marry my son, 
But one fault I find with you; 
Your nose, like the earth, 
In many places is cracked. 
The Rabbit then said: ‘‘Your people and my people shall always be 
apart and never mix up.”’ Then they went off. 
1Told by Yellow-Calf, Skidi, keeper of the Big-Black-Meteoric-Star bundle. 
The story is told to teach the children that the rabbit-people and the coyote-people 
are two different sorts of animals. 
