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at his side told him that he must save a piece always, so that it would 
grow again. This piece that he was told to save was near the ring’s. 
Every time he would eat one, this artichoke would say: “This is where 
you will have to save me.” Then the Coyote would throw away that 
part. The Coyote then forgot all about digging and saving to take 
home, but kept on eating. Finally the rest of the people began to 
depart and he was left alone at this place. 
The Coyote then thought that he had better stay where he was, 
living on something good. He kept on eating the raw artichokes, and 
finally forgot about saving the part he had been told not to eat. The 
artichokes would remind him of it, but this time he would eat up every 
bit of it, so as not to let them grow any more and so that the people, 
whenever they should come back, would not find any more of the arti- 
chokes. So he kept on eating the artichokes, without saving a piece. 
Cum Coyote adeo farsisset ut crepere inciperet, mirabatur quid mali sibi 
esset. Crepere autem persistebat usque ad vexationem. Quandoque 
creperet, fiebat ut in aera iactaretur, paulatimque in silvas veheretur. 
Postremo in semiustam arborem truncam cavamque cecidit ibique 
haerebat, neque amplius crepebat. 
But the Coyote was unable to get out, and he could do nothing 
but remain there until some one should come along. The Coyote 
remained in this hollow stump several days, and he was getting pretty 
poor. Once in a while he would halloo, and say: “I am a fat coon, and 
I am in this ‘hhollow tree!’ Some time afterward the people came back, 
and when the Coyote heard them coming, he called out: “I am a fat 
coon in the hollow tree!” The people listened and tried to see where 
that sound came from. They finally caught the sound, and came to 
this burnt stump and began to cut the tree down, and when they had 
cut the tree down, there they found the Coyote, just as poor as he could 
be; he was unable to walk. So he was taken out, and his life was 
saved. The Coyote did not stay to see these people dig any more of 
the artichokes, but he went straight to his home, and when he got home 
he found that his family had starved to death. So he went off howling, 
and when he was howling he was crying over his family. 
49. THE COYOTE AND THE WILD-CAT.* 
Once upon a time the Coyote (Ketox) went on a journey, and after 
a while he got rather hungry, for he had gone a long way. He found 
on his way some dry bones. He picked up a rib bone and went on 
*Told by Keechi (Woman) (Wichita). 
