464 COYOTE TALES. 
141. COYOTE AND THE ARTICHOKE.’ 
Coyote was going along a road alone, when he saw an Artichoke lying 
onthe ground. Ashe passed by the Artichoke said: ‘‘Biteme.”’ Coyote 
turned around and said: “‘I will bite you if you say anything more.” 
Coyote started on, and the Artichoke said: ‘‘Bite me.” Coyote turned 
around and said: “‘I will bite you if you say anything more.’’ Coyote 
started on again, and Artichoke called: ‘‘Bite me.’’ Coyote turned 
around and ate up the Artichoke. All at once he began to expel flatus. 
Coyote said: ‘‘Wah!’’ He went on and expelled flatus many times, and 
each time harder than before. Every time he would say: ‘‘ Wonder! 
Wonder! Wonder!” He kept on expelling flatus, until he expelled it 
so hard that it made one of his legs jump up. He kept on until he 
began to defecate, and he stopped in a hollow, and he defecated until 
his own excrement washed him away. 
142. COYOTE, THE PLUM TREES, AND THE GRAPE VINES.’ 
When the Coyote people were placed upon the earth, each male had a 
membrum which he carried around his waist. Whenever the women 
were swimming the men would sit upon the banks and let their mem- 
brums crawl into the water. The women would feel of them and would 
run out from the water, thinking that snakes were coming. The leader of 
these people had a membrum longer than that of any of the others. He 
was going along a prairie, when he heard a queer noise in the ground. 
He stopped and said: ‘‘Stop making that noise. I will run my mem- 
brum into you and kill you.”’ The noise continued. He took down his 
membrum, stuck it into the hole, and as he pushed it into the ground 
something began to chew on it. When he got away from the hole he 
found that his membrum was only four or five inches long. It had been 
chewed to pieces. He began to dig and he found pieces of it ina pile. He 
took a handful and threw it to one side of where he was and said: ‘‘Let 
the plum trees grow from these, and let the trees bear plums.’ Then he 
took another handful and threw them in another direction and said: 
‘“‘Let the grape vines come up and bear grapes.’’ Then he began to 
throw other handfuls in different directions for other berries and nuts to 
grow. After he had mentioned everything, the insect under the ground 
1Told by White-Sun, Kitkehahki. This story is told to teach the people that 
they should not eat too many artichokes; that if they did they would expel flatus. 
?Told by Thief, Kitkehahki. This story is told to the children tomake them 
believe that all fruit came from the genitals of the first man placed on earth, so 
that fede: children should not eat too much fruit, but would give it to the older 
people. 
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