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body was long enough to permit of its swallowing anybody. The 
Coyote also said that perhaps the boy had brought the fierce animal 
there to eat them up. The boy listened to the Coyote, and thought to 
himself, “What foolish ideas he has, and what a big coward he is to 
fear the horse.” Now, the boy went in and the Coyote stopped talking 
about the dangerous animal. The boy then began to tell about the 
horse and what it was used for, for he and his brother (for so he called 
his young Coyote companion) ‘had often been off a long way and got 
tired, but when the time should come for them to go again they could 
ride the horse, and that would be far better than ‘traveling afoot, and 
perhaps the Coyote could ride it when going after game, for this horse 
was as good a runner as any animal living. The Coyote then began 
to tell his family about the horse and how harmless it was. 
Long afterward, after the young Coyote thad learned to ride the 
horse, the old Coyote commenced to think about moving to the vil- 
lage, just to show off his wonderful boy and the wonderful animal they 
had. The Coyote told this family that he wanted to leave their old 
home and move to the village to live. The family was now pretty well 
acquainted with the horse, and when the time came to move away the 
boy let them ride it. He intended that they should take turns riding the 
horse, for the family was very large. As they started off toward the 
village the boy said he would go off a while to see about something out 
toward the east. The Coyote family started toward the southeast. 
They took along the horse and put a big load on it, including the old 
woman and the children. They came to a steep canyon. The Coyote 
asked the boy’s little companion whether the horse could travel over a 
steep place. The little Coyote said the horse could go over any kind 
of a place, very easy. So the Coyote allowed the family to remain on 
the horse while he whipped it to make it jump across the canyon. The 
horse did not want to go over the place, but the Coyote kept whipping 
it, and firlally it jumped, and off went the Coyote’s family, into the 
steep place, and the Coyote was left standing there. After a time the 
horse came out of the canyon and started toward the place where he 
was found. Just then the boy came in sight, but not near enough to 
call to the Coyote. He thad forgot to tell the Coyote to look for a low 
place when the wanted to cross a canyon with a loaded horse, but now 
it was too late to say anything about it. When the boy came up with 
the Coyote he asked him why he thad not looked for a better place to 
cross the canyon, but there was the Coyote’s family lying in the canyon, 
all dead. The boy then told the Coyote to go right on to the village 
and he would go with him. He told the Coyote that it was his mistake 
