THE COYOTE AND THE WILD-CAT. 283 
He fixed the Coyote up in every way, to spoil his looks. (Before they 
met these animals were human beings.) After doing all this to the 
Coyote, the Wild-cat started off-and went to sleep again. 
When the Coyote woke up he felt different from what he had 
felt before going to sleep. He went to the bank of the creek to look 
at himself. He found that he had hair on his body, and a long tail 
and a long face. He saw that his mouth was split far back, and when 
he smiled he saw what long teeth he had, and what long ears. He 
thought to himself: “How came I to be in this condition?” He then 
thought of the Wild-cat, and commenced to think that he had changed 
his appearance. ‘The Coyote found the trail of the Wild-cat, and fol- 
lowed him until he found him, fast asleep. The Coyote then put both 
of his hands on the Wild-cat’s face, one on the top of his head and one 
over his mouth, and pressed his hands together. This made the Wild- 
cat’s face round. The Coyote changed him as much as the Wild-cat 
had changed himself. He cut off the tail of the Wild-cat and made it 
short. He made his back higher at the tail end of his body than at the 
fore part. Then he packed him to the creek and laid him down, so 
that he might find out what sort of a looking fellow he was when he 
woke up. The Coyote left the Wild-cat there and went off again. 
This time the Coyote thought: “When the Wild-cat comes back to me 
again I will play a trick on him and make out that I am asleep.” After 
the Coyote had gone a long way off he lay down, and soon he was as 
sound asleep as ever. The Wild-cat now woke up, and he felt different 
from what he did when he went to sleep, and every part of his body 
felt different. So he looked into the water to see himself, and he saw 
that he had been changed, and that he had an ugly-looking face. Here 
he sat for a while, for he did not know who did this. He found out 
that the Coyote had been around again, and he commenced to trace 
him. When he found him he was sound asleep. This time the Wild- 
‘cat thought that he would make it uncomfortable for the Coyote, 
so he took the Coyote up in an old burnt tree and placed him in the hole. 
The Coyote was left up in the tree to suffer before he could get down. 
This time, the Wild-cat left him entirely. When the Coyote woke up 
he found himself up in the tree, and there was no way for him to get 
down, and it was too high to jump down. He called for every bird 
that he saw flying by the tree. He called for those that had the largest 
axe. Some fled by, and said that there was some one else coming behind 
that had a large axe. Finally the Wood-pecker (Korekitaha) came, 
and to him the Coyote called: “Friend! Help me out. I am in trouble.’ 
