32 THE MYTHOLOGY OF THE WICHITA. 
and not that of the horse that he thad tried to get the horse to cross. 
They traveled all day and reached the village in the evening. The 
Coyote knew all the time that he would be treated well, since he had a 
son that was wonderful. When they came to the edge of the village 
there ‘was some one standing there whom the Coyote asked where 
visitors were received. The person directed thim to the largest tipi, 
in the middle of the village, which was the chief’s place. They went 
straight to the chief’s tipi. When they got there the chief told them 
to sit on the west side of the tipi. It was the cusom of the chief to give 
visitors something to eat, so he fed them. The Coyote noticed that the 
chief had four pretty sisters, whom he desired for wives. At the chief’s 
place, according to custom, men met to sit up at night and pass the 
time and talk about the past. There were a good many men at the 
place. About midnight all of the men went home, and the Coyote and 
his adopted son went to bed. The next morning, after they had eaten 
their breakfast, the adopted son told the Coyote to go to a certain place 
towards the north to some timber and there he would find a man and 
his sister living out by themselves, for whose power he should beg. 
The Coyote went as directed,-and when the arrived at the edge of the 
timber he saw a tipi. In the tipi was the man and his sister, and they 
each had a blue complexion. The Coyote walked into the tipi and was 
asked to be seated and to explain the object of his visit. The Coyote 
said he had come that the man might take pity on him and give him 
the same powers he had, so that he might be like him. The man told 
the Coyote he must first have a bow and arrows; that he would have 
to go and cut dogwood for arrows; that he himself had a bow he did 
not use that the Coyote could have. The man told the Coyote to go 
into the dogwood timber and call out to the dogwoods, “Which one 
of you shall I cut?” saying that the one first to say “Me,” he must cut; 
that he must do this four times, because he was to cut four arrows. 
The Coyote then went to the edge of the dogwood timber, stopped and 
called out, “Which one of you shall I cut?” The dogwoods all at 
once commenced to halloo, “Me! Me!’ The Coyote did not know 
what to do, and in order to satisfy all of them he cut as many as he 
could and carried an armful of them to the man in the tipi. When the 
went into the tipi the man asked him why he could not tell which one 
of the dogwoods said “Me!” first. The Coyote said that all of them 
had hallooed at once. So the man selected four of the dogwoods him- 
self, and he told the Coyote to take the remainder of them back and 
pitch them into the timber. The Coyote did as he was told. He then 
went back and found the arrows ready made for him. Then the Coyote 
