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you.” After the Coyote had told the woman that he would send his 
daughter to live with her the woman gave him all the meat he could 
carry. Being strong, he took home plenty of meat in his pack. As the 
Coyote started the woman asked him to be sure and send over his 
daughter, and promised him that when his daughter was living with her 
she would give him all the meat he might want for his family and she 
would treat his daughter well. She also told the Coyote that when 
her brothers should come home they would stop a long way from the 
lodge and ask her what she had in the lodge that was decayed, for they 
were high-class people and not used to anyone coming around. These 
brothers could always tell by the scent of the place whenever anyone had 
been around. The Coyote went on home, having plenty of meat with 
him for this family. 
On the following day the Coyote arrived home with his meat. As 
they were always hungry they ate the meat in a short time. The 
Coyote forgot what the woman had told him, for he had no daughter 
who was similar to her, nor had he one of the same age. Some time after 
this he thought again of the woman and resolved to go back. He left 
his home to go to her. When he came to the river he looked for the 
deepest place, and finally succeeded in finding such a place, and then 
stripped off all his clothing and went into the water. The water was 
about half-way up on his body. The Coyote then got ready to dive into 
the water, and said: ‘The time has arrived when I will turn into a 
woman.” As soon as he had said this he dived, and when he came out 
he looked at himself, and saw that he was a woman, but not like 
a grown woman. He dived again, the second, the third, and the fourth 
times, then looked at himself again and saw that he was full 
grown. ‘Then he looked into the water and found that he was 
similar to the woman,he was going to visit. The Coyote having 
become a woman, he came out of the water to the land. He got his old 
quiver and his robe which he put around him after the manner of a 
woman. He then threw his quiver where he had his arrows. When the 
Coyote arrived at the woman’s place he made a noise to attract her 
attention so as to make her come out. Of course, the woman came 
out and went in the direction the sound came from. But the Coyote, 
to be a little contrary, after he had made the noise, went from the 
woman, around the other way and dodged her. Failing to find anyone 
the woman thought she must have heard an echo in the lodge. The 
Coyote now went on the south side of the lodge and made the same 
kind of a noise as before, to make the woman come out again. And 
indeed, he did cause the woman to come out, and this time the Coyote 
