THE COYOTE AND HIS MAGIC SHIELD AND ARROWS. 37 
that she need never go hungry any more. The old woman advised ‘him 
not to do wrong to the one who had given him all the meat. The 
Coyote said to the old woman, “Never mind about my doing anything 
wrong to my friends.” 
The next day, the Coyote went back to the place where the man 
was living alone and walked right in. The man asked the Coyote many 
questions. He asked him if he was brave, and the Coyote said that he 
was born brave. He asked him if he was a fast runner, and the Coyote 
said that he was a fast runner. Then ‘the man asked the Coyote to go 
toward the south, which was a good ways off. He told ‘him to go 
until he came to a small hill, and that around this hill he would find 
three Buffalo sitting down. These Buffalo were of different sizes, 
so if he wanted a large shield or a small shield he was to select a large 
or a small Buffalo. The Coyote started, and when he came to the 
place, he went around the hill and saw the Buffalo sitting down and 
he walked up to them and wondered which the should choose. He 
finally decided that he would have a large-sized shield, and so he asked 
the largest Buffalo to go with him. The Buffalo arose and chased the 
Coyote, who ran to where he had started from. Once in a while he 
would look back to see if the Buffalo was gaining on him. The Buf- 
falo was pretty near up with him when he finally reached the man’s 
place. The man told the Coyote to go outside, to take the Buffalo by 
the ‘horns and give it a jerk, and then he would have his shield. The 
Coyote went out and walked up to the Buffalo and started to grab it 
by the horns; but the Buffalo made a quick motion and made as if he 
was going to hook the Coyote. The Coyote dodged away quick. The 
man told him not to dodge. He walked up to the Buffalo a second 
time, but failed to have courage enough to go up and take it by the 
horns; so the man told him to try again. He walked up the third time, 
and failed again. On the fourth time ‘he was told that if he failed again 
he could not have the shield. He walked up again and the Buffalo 
made another dash at the Coyote, but failed to scare him this time. 
The Coyote took the Buffalo by the horns and jerked it, and there was 
a shield. After this was given to him, bow and arrows were given him. 
He was directed to command his arrows to go out hunting, by shooting 
them in four directions; so that he need never go out hunting himself. 
The Coyote shot the arrows towards each direction—north, east, south, 
and west. It was not very long until he heard these arrows. talking, 
saying that they had killed certain buffalo. All at once he heard some- 
thing fall to the ground and he saw buffalo falling to the ground, each 
one of them having an arrow stuck in him. These arrows themselves 
