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“ 53, THE COYOTE AND THE SMALLEST SNAKE.* 
Once upon a time there went out the Coyote (Ketox) on the prairie, 
and as he was going along he found a little Snake (Hissquawasedikis ; 
Never-grows-larger). The Coyote said to this Snake: “What a thing 
you are. I would not be so small as you are. You ought to be like 
me. I ama big man.” ‘The Coyote then said to the Snake: “Let me 
see your teeth.” The Snake opened its mouth and showed the Coyote 
his teeth. The Coyote then opened his mouth and said to the Snake: 
“You see my mouth. What if we were to bite one another. You 
could not hurt me very much. My teeth are so big that I would just 
bité you in two.” The Coyote bit the Snake, and then the Snake bit 
the Coyote. The Coyote said: “Now I will go over here a little way, 
and we will call to one another.” The Coyote thought that by calling 
to one another he could tell if the Snake should die, for he thought it 
would die from the bite he had given it. The Snake went a little way 
off and lay down and the Coyote went the other way. The Coyote called 
to the Snake and the Snake answered weakly. Finally, the Coyote called 
and he answered pretty low. They then kept calling one another, and 
the Snake would answer pretty low, and the Coyote would say to him- 
self: “I knew that I would kill that Snake.” But the Coyote began 
to swell up where the Snake had bitten him, and it began to hurt the 
Coyote pretty badly, because his whole body began to swell. But thev 
kept calling one another. It got so that when the Coyote was called 
he would answer very faintly, for his whole body was swelling up, and 
when the Snake was called he would answer very loud. Finally the 
Snake called the Coyote and the Coyote did not answer. So the Snake 
got up and went to where the Coyote was lying, and there he found 
him dead. So the Coyote died of the Snake bite, because he acted 
so smart and bragged of his large teeth. The Snake then left the 
Coyote after he had killed him. This Snake, it is known, was the 
smallest of all snakes. 
54. THE COYOTE AND THE TURKEY.+ 
One time when the Coyote (Ketox) was hunting for something 
for his children to eat, he sneaked around back of a place and attacked 
a Turkey (Naa). The Coyote pulled all the feathers off the Turkey, 
put them around the Turkey’s neck, and asked the Turkey if he was 
honest. The Turkey told the Coyote that he was honest. The Coyote 

*Told by Ignorant Woman (Man) (Towakoni). 
+Told by Dragging-EKnemies-from-River-Banks (Towakoni). 
