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When the Coyote-Buffalo got up he saw that he had been left behind, 
all alone. He arose, but did not follow the other people. The Coyote- 
Buffalo came across a Coyote, and said: “Why are you not as I am? 
I was a Coyote once, but now I am a Buffalo.” The Coyote-Buffalo 
told the Coyote to throw his bow and arrows away, for he was going 
to make him into a Buffalo. He set the Coyote in a certain place and 
made a rush at him. The Coyote jumped sidewise. Three times did 
the Coyote-Buffalo try to run into the Coyote, but every time the 
Coyote jumped sidewise. The last time, the Coyote-Buffalo said, “Now 
you must close your eyes and let me run over you.” The Coyote 
obeyed and the Coyote-Buffalo ran into him, and there were two 
Coyotes instead of the Coyote-Buffalo and the Coyote. So the Coyote- 
Buffalo turned back into a Coyote. 
51. THE COYOTE AND THE ARTICHOKE.* 
The Coyote was going along through thick timber. He saw an 
Artichoke plant, which he dug up. He asked it its name. The Arti- 
choke said, “Cososit,”’ meaning artichoke. The Coyote wanted to know 
if he had any other name. The Artichoke said, ““Take-a-Bite.”” When 
it said that, the ‘Coyote took a bite. The Artichoke repeated this name 
four times, and every time it repeated it the Coyote took a bite of the 
Artichoke. Finally, the Coyote had eaten the Artichoke. 
The Coyote went on, and again and again he expelled flatus, mov- 
ing his feet each time. Every time he expelled flatus he seemed to grow 
worse. Once it threw him up in the air. Now, before expelling flatus, 
he got hold of a tree, and he said, “Now let me expel flatus.” The 
flatus threw him up in the air, tree and all. Again he went on, and 
he came to a stone, and when he knew he was to expel flatus, he said, 
“Now let me expel flatus.” This he did, and the stone went up with 
the Coyote. The stone fell on the Coyote and killed him. This is the 
reason we find coyotes lying beside stones. 
52. THE COYOTE RIDES THE BEAR.+ 
The Coyote was going along through the timber, and he met a 
Bear. The Coyote made all kinds of threats against the Bear, and 
finally got on his back and rode him. All at once the Coyote jumped 
off and said, “You can go your way, and I will go mine!’ The Coyote 
*Told by Cut-Arm. 
+Told by Antelope. 
