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44. THE COYOTE, PRAIRIE TURTLE, AND SQUIRREL. 
Prairie-Turtle wishes to cross creek, but it is swollen. Buffalo offers to 
take him across on his hoofs, or back, or between his horns, but Turtle declines. 
Then Buffalo suggests anus and Turtle gets in. He eats part of intestines and 
Buffalo drops dead when across creek. Turtle calls for some one with knife to 
butcher Buffalo, and Coyote hears. Tiurtle denies he has called for butcher. 
Coyote sees Buffalo on ground and asks what it is. Turtle insists it is his robe, 
but admits it is Buffalo he has killed. Coyote offers to butcher for half beef. 
Turtle consents. When through, Coyote suggests that they run race for all 
meat. Turtle is beaten and Coyote leaves him to watch meat while Coyote 
goes for wife and children. Squirrel comes and suggests playing trick on 
Coyote. They carry all meat to tree and Squirrel takes meat and then Turtle 
up into tree, which spreads over creek. Coyote returns and finds meat gone. 
He sees Turtle and Squirrel reflected in water. They smile and Coyote jumps 
into water, but can not reach them. He comes out and still sees them smiling. 
Coyote ties stone on neck and dives. Excrement floats and Coyote’s children 
call for intestines, as he has told them to do. Turtle and Squirrel tell them they 
_have drowned their father. Squirrel pours boiling hot soup on them and they 
run in different directions. This is why Coyotes do not stay together. Squirrel 
brings Turtle down to ground and they part. 
45. THE COYOTE, RABBIT, AND SCALPED-MAN. 
Coyote and Rabbit plan to get Scalped-Man’s bonnet, not knowing what sort 
of head he has. They take calumet pipe to him and say they have come to give 
him dance. One sings while other dances and they take turns in singing. Scalped- 
Man comes with gifts of things to wear. He first tells war-story. When all 
his things are gone, Coyote and Rabbit call for bonnet. Scalped-Man refuses 
and they will not stop dancing and singing. Finally Scalped-Man comes running 
with his bonnet off and Coyote and Rabbit are so afraid they run away. Scalped- 
Man follows them and seizes Rabbit by feet. He overtakes Coyote and throws 
Rabbit in his face. When Rabbit and Coyote meet they talk about man’s head 
and things they have at Scalped-Man’s place, which they are afraid to go after. 
They laugh over their sport. 
46. THE COYOTE AND SKUNK INAUGURATE THE FEAST. 
Coyote, who is a notorious coward, while hunting finds Skunk, and says he 
must kill him. Skunk tells Coyote that Beavers are having medicine dance 
near by and together they can kill lot of them. He instructs Coyote what to 
do. Coyote goes and finds Beavers having medicine-men’s dance. He tells 
them his partner is sick and asks for man to doctor him. He is told to take 
his choice, and he selects fattest. Medicine-man asks what part of sick man’s 
body hurts him. Skunk turns over, and while medicine-man is examining 
anus Skunk defecates, blinding him. Coyote kills him with club and hauls 
him off to distance. After cleaning ground Coyote goes again to Beavers. He 
pretends that first medicine-man has failed to cure sick man, has gone to look 
for different medicine. He asks for another medicine-man, as his partner is 
