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had his head down, facing the wall of the grass-lodge. The woman 
then found the Coyote and asked him if his father had sent him down 
to live with her. ‘The Coyote would not say a word, but shook his 
head for “Yes.” The woman then told the Coyote to come into the 
grass-lodge. She was proud of her company. She asked the Coyote if 
he wanted something to eat, and he told her that he did, so the 
woman gave him something to eat. While the Coyote was eating’ 
the woman asked why his father had not come along, since he had 
promised to come with his daughter. The Coyote said that his father 
had turned off some other way and that he would come some other 
time. The woman then -began to tell the Coyote woman about her 
brothers, who were away hunting, saying that they were away hunting 
and were to return late that evening, and that on their approach they 
would ask her to take out of the lodge whatever she might have 
there, as the smell of the Coyote would be like a stench to them. 
Late that day they heard the brothers returning. As soon as they 
came near the grass-lodge the men began to ask their sister what she 
had in the lodge that smelled so badly. During the day she had fumi- 
gated the room by burning some kind of brown weeds. Still the men 
could smell what was in the lodge. The woman told her brothers 
that she had a woman in the lodge to live with her while they were 
away; that they had told of their love for her and promised her that 
she might do as she wished. The brothers then said to one another, 
“Well, let us go and see what she has in there, for we love our sister, 
and whatever she says will be all right.” The men then walked into 
the lodge and they saw no one. The woman began to cook some food 
for her brothers. After everything was cooked she gave them the . 
food, and when they began to eat, the woman pulled the robe from the 
_ Coyote woman and asked her to get up and eat with her. When the 
Coyote woman got up the men began to look at her, and this made her 
somewhat ashamed as she looked at her companion’s brothers, and she 
was already enamored of them; and the next thing that came to the 
Coyote woman’s mind was that she was bound to marry them. The 
woman then cut up the meat for the Coyote woman, but she ate only a 
little bit. The woman then told her brothers that this Coyote woman 
was a daughter of the man who had visited her sometime before; that 
she had asked him if he had any children and he had replied that he 
had a daughter about her age; and that they could now see that the 
woman was about her own age. The men saw that the two women 
were about the same age, and believed that the Coyote woman had been 
sent from her home to remain with their sister during their absence. 
