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The Coyote was told to go and try again, and this time to tell 
them that the first medicine-man had failed to cure his partner and that 
the medicine-man had gone to look for some medicine different from 
_the one he had. The Coyote went back to where the medicine-men’s 
dance was, and on his arrival he told that the first medicine-man had 
failed to cure the sick man, but had gone out to look for some more 
medicine, different from what he had, and that he would soon come 
back. He said that he wished that he could have another medicine-man 
while this other one was out looking for his medicine, for his partner 
was nearly dead. He was then allowed to select another man. The 
Coyote then selected the fattest man in the crowd to doctor his partner. 
After selecting another man he and the medicine-man both went to 
where his sick partner was lying on his dying bed. When they arrived 
the Skunk pretended that he was dying and rolled from one side to 
the other. The Coyote told the medicine-man to make haste in doc- 
toring his partner, for he was afraid that he would die. The medicine- 
man then asked where it was hurting him the most. The Coyote 
turned over the sick partner of his and raised his tail up sand said that 
that was the most important place where the pain was. Then the 
medicine-man commenced to doctor him. While he was examining the 
place where the pain was the Skunk did as before, and again the Coy- 
ote took the club, and hit him on the head and killed him. The Coyote 
then again took this Beaver to one side, where he had laid the other 
Beaver, and then cleaned up the place again. They again played this 
same trick on another one and killed him, and then another one, until 
they had killed four in all, and then they quit. The Coyote thanked the 
Skunk for helping him to get something to eat. They parted. The 
Coyote went home loaded with the Beavers he thad killed. 
When the Coyote arrived home he requested his wife to do some 
cooking for him, so that he could call his friends to the feast. He told 
his wife that while he was out he had met a good many of his friends 
and that he had promised to invite them to come to his place and eat 
with him. The Coyote then asked his wife and children to leave the 
place for a while, when his friends should come, for there were some 
of the men who would not be looked at by women or children. The 
Coyote’s wife began at once to cook for his best friends. The Coyote 
also asked his family not to eat anything first, before these friends of 
his had eaten. His family was hungry, but they all obeyed the old 
man’s orders. When the cooking was done, the Coyote ordered his 
family to leave for a while until the feast was all over. Near their place 
was a little creek where he ordered his family to stay, and he told his 
