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death. Old woman-takes bath and hears noise in water. She becomes pregnant 
and boy is born to her. Boy grows rapidly and when young man goes to recover 
rest of family. He arrives at village and after bath is called to shinny ground. 
He has club and ball. His ball is used and he tosses it up. Hail falls instead 
of ball and kills dangerous man. Young man stops hail. Body of dangerous man 
is burned up and men whom he has killed come to life, among them Swift- 
Hawks and their father. Soon after reaching home they pour water on fire and 
go up with smoke and turn into Little-Brown-Hawks. 
40. THE COYOTE WHO LOST HIS POWER. 
Two villages are situate same distance apart. Both send out war-parties, 
but while on return of party from east village people have good times, in west 
village there is crying. Coyote goes to this village to find out cause of crying. 
Goes with war-party :from west village. When they stop men gather wood and 
cut some dogwood. After sunset man asks from distance way to fire. He comes 
and Coyote is afraid of him, he is dressed so peculiarly. He is Shooting-Star, 
and as human being has great powers. He has plenty of dogwood. Men use 
dogwood sticks to count number of enemies they have killed. Stranger counts 
beyond any of others, and when man has told all his war tales stranger kills 
him. Men become very few about daylight and then Coyote goes. Coyote meets 
Little-Man, who agrees to give him power to kill stranger. He gives Coyote bow 
and arrows, tells him to have dress made after fashion of stranger’s, and says 
that when he has got ahead of stranger in story telling there will be foot-race, 
in which he is to run above ground, and when he has beaten stranger he is to 
kill him. When Coyote has accomplished all he is not to marry. Little-Man 
instructs Coyote how to bring dead men back by burning bodies. Coyote tells 
people what has happened and what he is going to do. They make him clothes 
and bonnet, and Little-Man gives clothing appearance of that of stranger. 
Coyote goes to place where everybody dies and mimics men in getting wood 
and dogwood sticks. At dark stranger comes to camp-fire. He is surprised to see 
that Coyote’s dress resembles his own. They begin to tell war tales and Coyote 
tells more than the stranger. Stranger tells true stories and Coyote stories only 
half true. Daylight comes and stranger has told all his war tales. Coyote pre- 
pares to kill him, but stranger says they have to run race, and he can run on top 
of ground or under ground. Coyote decides on top and they run for high point. 
Coyote receives power from Little-Man and reaches point first. When stranger 
arrives he offers Coyote his power, but Coyote kills him with bow and arrows. 
He drags body to camp-fire and gathers human bones lying around and burns 
them. He calls names of men who have been killed there and they come out 
of fire. Men go home. At suggestion of chief people build Coyote new dwelling- 
place and give him wives. Prominent men come to visit Coyote, and his wives 
cook for them. Wives become pregnant. Little-Man sends whirlwind to take 
away Coyote’s powers and leave him as at first, because he nas disobeyed his 
order. Next morning wives find coyote instead of human being. ‘They scream 
and awake coyote, who runs away from village. Wives’ children are coyotes, 
and the people take them home for pets. 
