THE DEEDS OF THE COYOTE AND YOUNG-STAR. 35 
lain upon her and where he had had his arms around her. He noticed 
at the same time that some of the blue had disappeared from himself. 
He thought that if the should sleep with all of the women all of them 
would turn blue the same as he was. Now, he wanted to lie with the 
other three women during the night. He waited patiently for night 
to come. The three women were thinking the same as did the Coyote, 
for they wanted to sleep with him. In the early part of the night the 
Coyote and his son both went to join in the dancing. ‘The boy knew 
that the Coyote was doing wrong. The Coyote did not think his powers 
could be taken away from him unless the blue complexioned man saw 
him. He forgot that the blue complexioned man had told him that the 
bow and arrows had lives in them and that whatever he might do they 
would know about and that they would escape from him. While the 
dance was going on the Coyote slipped away and went right to the 
place where he was staying and got in bed. When the three women 
noticed that he had left the scene of the dance they also left. On the 
arrival at their place the Coyote told them that he was going to sleep 
with them one at a time during the night. Each took her turn in sleep- 
ing with the nice-looking man that they thought him to be. As he was 
lying with each of these women the Coyote heard his arrows and bow 
talking about his failure to keep his agreement and about making their 
escape. He heard every word they spoke. He was worried by what 
_ they said. The whole night the did not sleep a wink, and finally to- 
wards morning he heard the wind blowing. It seemed to him that the 
wind came inside of the lodge. He and the woman with him fell sound 
asleep. When the other women got up they saw the last woman to 
sleep with the Coyote sleeping with a real coyote. When they awakened 
their sister and asked her to look at what she was sleeping with she 
looked at him and there was this coyote lying on her side with his arm 
around her. She screamed and wakened the coyote. He arose from 
the bed, looked at himself and saw that ihe had a long tail, long ears, 
and was no longer a man. He escaped at once from the place. But 
he had already caused all of the women to be pregnant. The news 
spread of the Coyote losing his powers through disobedience. His 
powers went back to the man from whom he had obtained them. 
The boy now told the chief to assemble his people. The chief 
called the people about his place. They asked the chief why he had 
called them. The chief told them that the Coyote’s adopted son, who 
was known as Young-Star, had something to say to them. The chief 
told the people to listen to him. Young-Star was then asked what he 
had to say to the people. He told them that since he had been living 
