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some of the people should turn into animals it would be very bad, as 
the people would be destroyed by them, and as he knew just what animals 
were the most ferocious he went and made them a visit in behalf of the 
people. Some of the animals were opposed to Medicine-Screech-Owl 
and hated him, and when he came to certain ones they would try to kill 
him, and that is how he came to kill some of them. 
In those times the people had little to eat. There were two people, 
a man and a woman, known to the people as the Buzzards, who lived 
at the north end of the village, and the people noticed that they al- 
ways had plenty of meat and other things to eat, and they wondered 
how they got it. Time passed until finally Coyote came among the 
people and told them that he was going over to visit the two people 
and find out where and how they got so much meat and so many other 
things toeat. In those times the animals that were living with the 
people had some magic powers, and Coyote had power. He said: 
‘‘In order to find out where and how the Buzzard people get their 
food, I must scheme.’’ After studying he resolved that he would imi- 
tate a dog, and so before he came to the Buzzard home he turned him- 
self into a very small and fine-looking dog. He stayed away from the 
Buzzards and watched his opportunity to place himself where they 
would find him. One time the Buzzards had gone out some distance 
from their home for some purpose and were returning, when they 
found the little dog by the trail. The woman liked the dog, but the 
man said that it was not a real dog, but some one else. The woman 
did not believe him. The man allowed her to take the dog home with 
them. When they reached home he told her that they must find out 
whether this was a real dog or not. He told her to pinch the dog’s 
ear and see if it would howl like a real dog. The woman pinched the 
dog’s ear and it howled like a dog. Still the man did not believe that 
it wasadog. He told the woman to go and get some meat and give it 
to the dog, saying that if a dog it would take its time, but if it were 
not a dog it would eat fast ; that then he would know whether or not 
to believe it was a dog. The woman gave some meat to the dog. 
Coyote took his time in eating it, and so Buzzard believed what the 
woman had said, and they kept the dog. Coyote stayed with them 
until their meat gave out, then he watched them very closely. Finally 
the Buzzards began to talk about going after more meat. Coyote lis- 
tened. At length they started out and left their dog at home. They 
thought the dog would stay at home until they returned. But Coyote 
had a scheme, so he followed at some distance, so that they could not 
see him, and he watched them very closely. When they came to the 
place where they usually found their meat, Coyote found out all about 
