186 THE MYTHOLOGY OF THE WICHITA. 
so that no one could ever know there was anybody living there. The 
Coyote rose from the ground and went forth himself with a crowd of 
men after the child. They took a large robe to carry the child and the 
Coyote’s child. They arrived at the Coyote’s place, and the men folks 
laughed a little at each other, saying to one another: “Why, we have 
been right here, and why is it that we could not find the place?” They 
took both children, and the men folks said to one another: “Which one 
of these children is the chief’s grandson?” for they were both alike. 
When they arrived at the chief’s place the Coyote asked the father and 
mother of the child which one of the children was theirs; and the 
people were astonished at the likeness of the two children. The chief’s 
son and the chief’s daughter were happy to see their child once more, 
and ‘gave the Coyote high honors for recovering it. The chief at once 
ordered the people to commence a new home for the Coyoté; for the 
Coyote was given full power to become a great chief. They at once 
went after his family when his new home was completed. The child’s 
father and mother adopted the Coyote’s child for their child, too, for 
the two children were alike. The Coyote moved into his new home that 
the chief had given him to live in, and he called often on Spider-Man, 
as he had been told to do. Here the Coyote lived for a long time, until 
the women began to admire him and tried to marry him; but the 
Coyote still remembered the orders that were given to him, and refused 
to marry every woman who came along at night, though the Coyote 
was a fine-looking man. But after a long time the Coyote took a 
notion that he would accept no one but Woman-who-wears-Shell- 
Rattles (Nekastarahars), who was fine-looking. He said to himself 
that if that woman ever came along he would accept her, and have her 
for his wife. So once upon a time he heard this woman coming, and 
she had on loud rattling shells, so that anybody might hear her a good 
way off. When she came the Coyote quickly allowed her to lie down. 
Spider-Man at once knew that the Coyote had forgotten his orders and 
took away his great powers that night, and the next morning when 
Woman-who-wears-Shell-Rattles woke she had a true coyote sleeping 
with her. The woman was scared nearly to death, and this caused the 
Coyote to wake up, and he, too, was scared. So the Coyote ran out of 
his place, going out in the wilderness as he is to-day. In this way, 
whenever the Coyote had powers given to him he would by misfor- 
tune lose them. As ‘soon as the chief had heard this he called all his 
people together,and told them that since some one had done him wrong, 
and he constantly felt that some other wrong might befall him, he 
would allow his people to go where they wanted to go, and become 
