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short legs, and are very dirty.” The Bull-Bats and the Coyote were 
talking on the top of a hill, and the Stone was trying to climb the hill, 
but could not get to the top. 
After the Bull-Bats had accepted the Coyote’s word, one flew up, 
and when he came down, he expelled flatus upon the Stone and it burst 
in two. Another Bull-Bat split the Stone again, and soon they had it 
all broken up. (It is claimed by the people that there was no stone in 
the world except this big stone; and when the Bull-Bats broke the 
stone it scattered all over the world.) The Coyote was saved. He 
got some white clay and put it on the top of the Bull-Bats’ heads and 
bodies. The Coyote went on his way, happy. 
59. THE COYOTE AND THE ROLLING STONE.* 
One time when the Coyote was going along he met a Rabbit. 
The Coyote said to the Rabbit: “Let us gamble to-night. Let us 
gather dry limbs and make a big fire, that we may look at one another, 
and the one who goes to sleep first is to be covered by the other.” The 
Rabbit agreed to this. So the Coyote and the Rabbit gathered a lot 
of dried limbs and made a big fire. The Coyote sat on one side and 
the Rabbit on the other side of the fire, so that they both looked at 
one another. The ‘Rabbit went to sleep, but he had his eyes wide open. 
Every time the Coyote looked at the Rabbit he saw that his eyes were 
wide open, but all this time the Rabbit was asleep. By morning the 
Coyote went to sleep. The Rabbit went over and covered him and 
then went his way. 
The Coyote woke up and was very mad. Profectus, ventrem facere 
volebat. Dum defzcavit, multos lepores parvos emisit, qui autem ex- 
templo evanuerunt. Idcirco viatus est. Itaque pallium suum de- 
posuit, ut, cum defzecavisset, eo lepores prehendere posset. Cum igitur 
in pallio defecavisset, se lepores eo prehendisse arbitratus, pallium 
stipite iterum atque iterum feriebat. Cum autem pallium aperuisset, 
nihil nisi excrementum repperit. He dragged the robe along and 
gave it to a Stone that was lying near by. When the Coyote turned 
around to look at the robe that he had given to the Stone, he saw that 
it was clean and white. So he went and took the robe, and as he 
dragged it away from the Stone he found that it was as before. Again 
he gave the robe to the Stone, and said: “It is yours; I did not mean 
to take it.’ The Coyote started off again, but he looked back and he 
*Told by Cut-Arm., 
