1Q2 THE MYTHOLOGY OF THE WICHITA. 
runner of all the people, and this was Black-Wolf, and was always 
sure to kill whatever he went after. One time the Coyote decirled to 
go out a long way off to see if he could not find some trail of the 
buffalo, for the people at home were in need of food. He went toward 
the north, and traveled four long days, but still could not find any 
sign of buffalo. At the end of the fourth day he came to a lodge all 
by itself. He did not show himself, but kept his eye on the people who 
were living there. He saw there was one man with his family, and 
noticed that they had plenty of meat. He sneaked around to find where 
the man kept his meat, but he could not find out, and so he thought 
that he would try a trick. He turned himself into a little dog, and after 
dark crawled into the lodge. When the children saw him they petted 
him and played with him. The old man told them to let him alone, 
but the children were pleased to have a little puppy to play with and 
so they fed him and took him with them to bed. Early the next morn- 
ing, before the old woman was up, the old man rose from the bed to go 
out hunting. As the old man fixed himself up to go out the Coyote 
crawled out the other way to follow him and see where he got his meat. 
As soon as he saw the man going over the hill toward the west the 
changed himself into his usual form and followed the man. Every hill 
the man went over he would follow, until he saw the man going toward 
the large hill, and there he saw a great, big stone lying on the side of the 
hill. When the man reached the place he went around to hear what 
he would say. He finally came to a place where he could not be seen, 
and there he commanded the stone to get to one side, and called to the 
fattest buffalo to come out. When he had said this the buffalo came 
out and the man shot him with an arrow and commenced to butcher 
him. After he had taken off all the lean meat he commanded the 
buffalo to rise and get back in the hole, and as the buffalo went in, the 
stone moved back to its place again. The man then packed up and 
cleaned the place where the buffalo had been lying. The man was 
Raven (Kawita), Crow-Buffalo. The Raven then started back to his 
home, and as he went over the hill the Coyote went to the place, and said 
to himself: “I wonder if that stone would obey my command?” He then 
commanded the stone to move to one side, and called to all the buffalo 
to get out. When the stone moved to one side there slowly came out 
a great herd of buffalo. Then he commanded the stone to move back 
again. He then chased the buffalo toward the place where he had come 
from. He traveled the same length of time that it took him to come. 
He reached his village at midnight, and called on the Wolves, and told 
what he had done, and said that his people need never go hungry any 
