ADVENTURES OF COYOTE. 87 
tainly be killed. I say, let it rain in drops of water. Then we can be 
caught out in the rain and get very wet, but we will soon be dry 
again, and the wetting will be good for us.’’ The people accepted 
Coyote’s suggestion, and so it is that it rains in the form of water. 
When the council was all over and the people went to their homes, 
Coyote made up his mind to go out and visit some of his friends. He 
traveled until he came to the mountains. He saw smoke coming up 
among the mountains, as though some one was making up a big fire, 
and he thought he would go up and see who was living there. When 
he came near to the place he saw some one sitting by the fire. It was 
the great, powerful Bear. Coyote went closer, and Bear asked him if 
he was the person who was called Coyote, and Bear told him that if he 
was that he was going to kill him, for he had heard many bad things 
about him. Coyote told Bear he was not the person, but that he was 
the son of a great and powerful medicine-man. Bear did not believe 
him and decided to kill him. When he was about to kill him, Coyote 
told him to wait until his father saw him, for he might have something 
to say to him before he died. This happened at sunrise, and when 
the sun was just peeping over the hilltops Coyote said to Bear: ‘‘ Now 
you may kill me or do as you please with me, because my father is 
watching me.’’ Then Bear began to back away, and as he did so, Coyote 
began to go nearer and nearerto Bear. Finally he began to push him 
with his elbow, at the same time saying: ‘‘ Now kill me while my 
father is watching me.’’ Bear thought that he must be a great man, 
if he was the son of the Sun, and he wondered how he received his 
powers from the Sun. He became frightened and gave Coyote many 
things to eat, and then Coyote told Bear to come and make him a visit 
some time, whenever he felt like going anywhere. A long while after 
this, Bear found out that the person who made a visit to him was not 
the son of the Sun, but that he was the man Coyote, whom he wanted 
to kill. Bear was more angry at him than ever, and so he thought he 
would fool Coyote some way by going and visiting him and killing him 
if he could find his home. Bear did not find his home, because Coyote 
was always moving from place to place, for he knew that Bear was 
after him, and that he would kill him if he could catch him. 
While Coyote was moving from one place to another he came down 
to a large lake of clear, cool water, and after he had been there for some 
time he started off a little way from the lake. While gone hesaw some 
one coming up toward him and, as he was very cowardly, he started to 
run away. ‘The person was not his enemy, but a friend of his, Moun- 
tain-Lion. He called Coyote back, and so he came, and he told his 
friend that he was very hungry, for he had had nothing to eat for a long 
