196 ABSTRACTS. 
53. THE COYOTE RIDES THE BUFFALO. 
Pretty girl does not care to marry. Buffalo comes and girl becomes attached 
to him. ‘Coyote visits girl, but she repulses him. Coyote tells her that Buffalo 
is his horse and girl says she will marry him if he will ride Buffalo there. 
Coyote goes home and_strikes himself hard with club on the knee. Girl tells 
Buffalo what Coyote said and Buffalo says he will bring Coyote and kill him. 
Coyote tells Buffalo he is cripple, but says he will go if Buffalo will carry him. 
Buffalo agrees and Coyote sits on his back, with cane to hit Buffalo with. 
Coyote runs back to village and marries girl. Buffalo so ashamed he never 
came back. 
54. THE COYOTE AND THE BUFFALO RUN A RACE. 
Coyote tells Buffalo he cannot run fast and Buffalo challenges him to run 
race. Coyote accepts and goes off to select place. He sets landmarks near 
steep place. He tells Buffalo that at landmark they are to close their eyes and 
run fast. They race and Buffalo with eyes closed jumps over deep bank. 
Coyote goes down, skins and cuts up Buffalo, and takes meat to creek. While 
roasting meat Fox comes and Coyote sends him with Buffalo’s pouch for water. 
Fox eats up pouch and tells Coyote something came and took away pouch. 
This happens four times and Coyote throws coals in Fox’s face, sending him 
off. Fox tells story to every animal he meets and they all go to Coyote’s lodge 
while he is asleep and eats all he has. When he wakes up he finds all his meat 
gone and goes away crying. 
55. THE COYOTE AND THE DANCING ‘CORN. 
Two hungry Coyotes go to village in search of pounded corn. They sep- 
arate and leader sees pounded corn, in lumps, running into mortar. Coyote 
begs lumps to come out. He sings and walks around fireplace. Lumps of 
pounded corn come out and dance with Coyote. He tells them to close their 
eyes. He runs to mortar and gets his head fast in bowl. Brother comes and 
captive tells him to cut bowl open with axe. He does so, but cuts Coyote on 
head so that he dies. 
56. THE COYOTE AND THE TURTLE RUN A RACE. 
(Coyote boasts of his swiftness and Turtle says he can beat him running. 
They agree to run race. Turtle gets other Turtles to assist him. They go to 
course, place one Turtle at end, others at different distances back. Each Turtle 
carries pole and hides in ground. Next morning Turtle meets Coyote. Turtle 
gives command to start. Coyote runs and Turtle crawls into hole. When 
Coyote gets over little ridge he sees Turtle ahead of him. He catches up with 
him and Turtle throws away pole and crawls into ground. This happens several 
times and at end Turtle is at goal. Coyote says he is beaten, and running kills 
him. 
