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124, COYOTE-MAN AND HIS TRICKS. 
Coyote passing through timber finds squirrels playing in trees and tells them he 
is starving and asks them to feed him. They accuse him of knavery, but he begs, 
and male squirrel descends and tells Coyote to remove one of his testes, whereupon 
pecans appear. Coyote returns home, has his wife operate on him, and they obtain 
pecans. She does this four times, but fifth time blood appears, for she has done it 
once too often; whereupon he returns to squirrels, who heal his wound, but tell him 
he has lost power. He continues traveling and meets Beaver, and begs food. 
Beaver instructs him to get cottonwood bark and macerate it between his hands. 
Then Beaver cuts Coyote’s scrotum, oil appears, which is mixed with bark, and 
pemmican is formed. Coyote is taught trick, but is warned he must not do it 
oftener than four times a day. He goes home, disobeys their injunction, and 
returns to Beaver to heal him. He meets Bear, who tells him that he is going to his 
den. Coyote runs on ahead, daubs his head with mud, and puts white clay on his 
lips to make them appear chapped. He again meets Bear and begs for food, espe- 
cially for grease for his lips. Bear finally consents to allow Coyote to cut him in loin. 
He cuts deeply and thrusts in his arrow, killing bear. He finds pile of dry limbs, to 
which he carries bear meat and-roasts all of it before eating any. Overhead he 
hears squeaking noise, made by two limbs rubbing, and orders them to stop. 
Enraged because they do not, he climbs tree and puts his hand between them and 
iscaught. Coyotes appear, eat up his meat, and runaway. The tree releases him 
and he continues in quest of food. He meets medicine-man, asks him how he doc- 
tors sick, and obtains medicine-man’s song and dance; whereupon he kills medi- 
cine-man, dresses himself in his costume, enters village, dancing on way, pretending 
to doctor sick boy, but kills him with red-hot iron. He cuts boy up in small pieces 
and puts him in kettle. Snake appears and Coyote gags it with piece of meat. 
Snake goes to people and with difficulty tells them that Coyote killed sick boy. 
People run to village, but Coyote has disappeared. He runs through timber and 
sees Buzzards on hill. Heasks them to carry him up into sky. They doso and 
he discerns game far below. Presently two Buzzards carrying him separate and 
Coyote falls to earth, alighting in hollow log, where he remains for several days. 
He enlarges holesin log. People camp near him and he cuts tails from his raccoon- 
hide quiver and sticks them through holes, and woman gathering wood calls her 
companions and they cut tree down for raccoons. He feigns anger at them. He 
travels on and meets two women gathering wood, and near by baby-board. He 
takes out baby, cuts off its head, and replaces head in cradle. Women discover 
deed and they recognize it as work of Coyote. All are now angry at him, and 
they capture him and throw him on fire, but he jumps out with popping noise and 
becomes little hairy man. 
125. COYOTE TAKES THE PIPE-STICKS TO THE BEAVER. 
Coyote’s wife and child arehungry. He encounters beavers, makes pipe sticks, 
which he carries to beavers’ lodge. Thus beavers become his children. On invita- 
tion they meet Coyote on hill far from creek, where pipe stick dance is to be held. 
He kills many with hisclub. He tries in vain thereafter to repeat trick on beavers. 
