go TRADITIONS OF THE CADDO. 
all that Coyote said and started out toward the prairie. Coyote was right 
under Turkey allthetime. At first Turkey flew upso high that Coyote 
thought he was going to lose him, but after a long flight Turkey kept 
coming down lower and lower, and finally came down on the ground. 
Then Coyote was not very far behind and he caught up with him and 
killed him. While Coyote was eating Turkey, he happened to look 
around to make sure that no one was watching him. He thought that 
he saw somebody standing behind him making motions as if trying to 
strike him. He started to run without learning who it was. Every 
now and then he would look back to see if he were out of his reach. 
Every time he looked back he thought he sawthe man right after him, 
ready to hit him. He ran with all his might, trying to get away from 
him. Coyote had been given power at the beginning of the world to 
run without decreasing his running powers. Coyote began to think that 
some great, powerful man was behind him and that he had to die. He 
had run eighttimes. The ninth time he thought he would run farther 
than usual. Again he looked around, right and left, and thought he 
saw the man just about to hit him. He started to run his best again, 
but his running powers were decreasing continually. He wasthen run- 
ning for the tenth time ; but it was all in vain, for the man seemed to 
be right up with him. Then Coyote thought he would fool the man, 
so he kept dodging right and left, but the man seemed to be near him 
allthetime. When hestarted to run the twelfth time he had not gone 
far when he gave out. He rolled and turned over on his back and 
begged not tobe killed. He fell over on his face, then heard something 
crack, and he thought it was one of his teeth, but it was only a turkey 
feather which had stuck between two of his upper teeth, and it stuck 
up nearly straight and level with his head back of hisrighteye. At first 
when he looked back he had thought surely that some one was standing 
behind him ready to strike him. When he found that he had been 
fooled by only a turkey feather, and had been running himself almost 
to death for nothing, he was very angry. Ever since, Coyote has 
looked wild, and when he runs he starts out very slowly for fear he may 
have to run a long distance, and when he runs he first looks around 
to the right and then to the left to see if anybody is near him. Most 
often he looks to his right side while running. When Coyote reached 
home he told his family and others that he had been running after a 
great big mountain-lion, and that he had killed it. He said: ‘“‘If 
there had not been so many trees I would have brought it home.’’ 
