THE SECOND PERIOD: TRANSFORMATION. 
2. THE DEEDS OF THE COYOTE AND YOUNG-STAR.* 
At this time the Coyote was living out by himself with his family. 
Of course, he was the same as ever and would often go hungry, for the 
could not kill much game. Once upon a time when the Coyote was 
going out to wander around after food he found a boy. He asked the 
boy where he was going. The boy replied that he was going nowhere. 
The Coyote then asked if he might take him to his home to play with 
his boy and live with his family. The boy agreed to live with the 
Coyote’s family. For a long time the lived with them. Through the 
powers of the boy, the Coyote did not have to go very far when hunt- 
ing; everything seemed easier than before the boy had come to live 
with him. The Coyote, being smart in some respects, commenced to 
find out what sort of a boy it was that was staying with him. At times 
Young-Star would foretell what was going to happen, and it would 
come true every time. So the Coyote thought that the boy was won- 
derful, although he was about the age of his own boy. The boy would 
leave his home for a time, then come back again. Sometimes the Coy- 
ote would ask him where he came from before he came to his home. 
The boy would never tell him where he was from, but would tell the 
Coyote he thought he ought to know from the name he bore. The boy 
kept leaving his home with his little companion. One time while they 
were out playing they kept on going east, and there they found a black 
horse (kawara). ‘The boy, being wonderful, caught the horse and 
using his bow-string for a lariat, rode it. But he was unable to get 
the young Coyote to ride the horse, for it was something he had never 
seen." They took the horse home with them. On their arrival the 
Coyote was frightened at sight of the wonderful animal. The boy tied 
the horse near their home and forbade anyone to go near it, for fear it 
would be scared by their scent. While all of the Coyote family were 
in the lodge the boy stepped out to see if his horse was still tied. When 
he saw that it was tied he stopped just outside for a moment and heard 
the Coyote talking about the horse, telling his family that it was a 
dangerous animal to be kept by their home. He was talking especially 
to the young ones, telling them not to go near the horse, for it had a 
long face and it surely must have long teeth, too, and that the horse’s 
*Told by Man-doing-Harm-while-Joking (Waco). 80 
