THE COYOTE, THE GIRL, AND THE MAGIC WINDPIPE. QI 
some tobacco, so that I may smoke.” The mother went to the tipi and 
they gave her the tobacco. She gave the tobacco to her son, who 
smoked, and said, “This smoke is good.” 
The men in the village were afraid. They thought the man would 
take revenge and kill some of them. The boy did not go out much, 
and the people doubted that he was back and alive. Some of the men 
went to the tipi to see if the boy was home and alive. The men saw 
the boy, and they became afraid. One day the boy sent for all his 
nearest kin, and said: “My relatives, my heart is poor, for these peo- 
ple killed me. I do not want to live here any more. Will you go with 
me where I am going?” All said, “Yes.” So the boy went and caught 
his pony. The others did the same. Men, women, and children fol- 
lowed the boy. He went towards the river and told the people to fol- 
low him and they obeyed. They went into the water, and as they got 
into the water they began to disappear. They all turned into some kind 
of animal that lived in the water. The young man who had the flute 
and elk’s teeth did not go, so he was the only one who lived. 
28. THE COYOTE, THE GIRL, AND THE MAGIC WINDPIPE.* 
A long time ago there lived a beautiful girl who had her lodge 
in the center of the timber. She loved nobody, but she always had 
plenty of buffalo meat, and plenty to eat. She had some wonderful 
bundles hung up in her lodge. 
One day as she was eating in her lodge the Coyote visited her. He 
saw that she had plenty of meat, so he made his home with her. Every 
day they had meat. The Coyote was now the girl’s errand man, and 
made fires for her and carried water for her. One day the girl was up 
early in the morning, and she said: “My uncle (Coyote), we are out 
of meat. I want fresh meat. My brothers will be here to-day, and I 
want you to stay on the north side of the entrance and cover your head 
up with your buffalo robe, and not to watch.” The girl swept out the 
lodge, placed some thot coals between the altar and the fireplace, and 
put some sweet grass upon the coals. As the smoke arose from the 
coals she went to the sacred bundle, and from it took the windpipe of a 
buffalo, which was round, and small at one end and large at the other 
end. She waved this over the smoke, then took it and turned it upside 
down so that dust came out from it, and as the dust fell out it turned 
*Told by Antelope. 
