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saw that the robe was all painted in colors and was very beautiful. 
He went and pulled on it to take it away, and again it was as at first, 
Four times the Coyote gave the robe back to the Stone, and four times 
he took it away from the Stone. 
At last the Stone moved, for it was angry, and the Stone ran after 
the Coyote. The Coyote ran down a hill, crying: “Father and mother 
Bull-Bats, this Stone that is running after me called you names! | 
told him that I would tell you Bull-Bats, and now he is trying to kill 
me!” The Bull-Bats told the Coyote to climb up a tree, where the 
young Bull-Bats were. The Bull-Bats expelled flatus on the Stone and 
broke it all to pieces. The Bull-Bats, as soon as the Stone was broken 
to pieces, flew up high in the sky, and when they were gone the Coyote 
saw the young ones in their nest and ate them up; then he came down 
from the tree. The Bull-Bats missed their young ones and they knew 
that it must have been the Coyote who had eaten them, for they heard 
the young ones crying in the Coyote’s belly. They were mad, and they 
expelled flatus on the Coyote and killed him. 
Because the Coyote is up to all kinds of mischief he is often killed, 
and this is why we so often find a dead Coyote on the prairies. 
60. HOW THE SCALPED-MAN LOST HIS WIFE.* 
One time the women went into the timber to gather some grapes. 
One of the girls went far. She saw some grapes away up in a tree, 
so she climbed the tree to get them. While she was up there, a Scalped- 
Man found her. The woman cried for help, but the other women had 
already gone home. The woman came down from the tree and went 
with the Scalped-Man to his den. But before getting to the den, they 
had to cross a creek. Before they crossed the creek, the girl said, “Now, 
if you will just go in and swim and wash your head, then I will be your 
wife and will not be afraid of you.” The girl made the Scalped-Man 
dive many times, and while he was diving she ran away and came to 
a grapevine, and crawled under it. 
When the Scalped-Man came out from the water the girl was 
missing. He followed her tracks to the grapevine, and he said, “You 
are to come out from there!” But the girl said nothing. After a while 
he went on. He kept going through the timber back and forth, until 
at last he'gave up. The woman got out from the place, and ran home. 
She told her people about the Scalped-Man. 
*Told by Many-Fox. 
