THE COYOTE, THE GIRL, AND THE MAGIC WINDPIPE. 93 
Coyote was planning all the time, but she allowed him to steal it. The 
Coyote went up to the windpipe, took it down and went out of the 
lodge, to the north. He traveled far. He thought, “I am now far away 
from the girl; I will lie down by the side of this log and sleep.” ‘The 
girl knew just where the Coyote had lain down, and so she had her 
brothers bring the Coyote back and place him at the ridge just before 
the entrance of the lodge, on the north side. In the morning the girl 
got up, went to the Coyote and waked him. When the Coyote awoke 
he found himself in the lodge. He said: “My niece, I thought the 
enemy were coming, so I took this thing down, so that I could put the 
brothers outside so that they could fight for us. I must have gone to 
sleep here. Put it back.” Again the Coyote thought, “Well, I will 
stay, and I will yet steal this windpipe.” So one night he took the 
windpipe down again and went off. He went until he came to a place 
where there were some ashes where timber had been burned. He lay 
down to rest. The girl told her brothers to bring him back and place 
him outside of the lodge, where there was a pile of ashes. She went 
out in the morning, waked him, and the Coyote, when he awoke, found 
himself by the lodge. “My niece,” he said, “I took this thing down, 
for there was a war-party coming ‘to attack us. I went to meet the 
war-party and they ran away, and I came back and lay down here, for 
I was tired.” ‘The third time he tried to steal the windpipe, but again 
he failed. The fourth time, the girl let the Coyote carry the thing off. 
So the Coyote went off, and the girl did not have him brought back. 
He became hungry, and as he saw a village he thought to himself, “If 
I do this wonderful thing to these people they will find out that I am 
wonderful and they will take me from one lodge to another to feed me.” 
So the Coyote went up on the hill. He commenced to how! at the peo- 
ple in the village to come and kick with him. He thought that if he 
could get them to kick with him he would turn the windpipe upside 
down and the young men would run. The young men in the village 
said: “That fellow is howling for us to come and kick with him. Let 
us go up and kick with him.” So several young men went up on the 
hill where the Coyote was. The Coyote took the windpipe and turned 
it upside down, but instead of dust and the boys coming out, a swarm 
of bumblebees came out, and they commenced to sting the Coyote all 
over. The boys continued to kick him. The Coyote began to beg them 
not to kick. The young men ran into the timber and the bees left the 
Coyote and went up into a hollow tree. There they stayed. The 
Coyote went off as a coyote. The bees stayed in the timber, as bees. 
