108 TRADITIONS OF THE CADDO. 
70. COYOTE TURNS INTO A CORN MILL.* 
The women made their corn mills from the trunk of an old tree. 
They cut a piece about two feet through and three or four feet high 
and hollowed it about twelve inches deep in one end. There they 
placed their corn and ground it to meal with a pounder. There were 
many of these mills, but one that was very old and smooth the women 
liked best. 
One day a woman went to use the old corn mill, and as she pounded 
her corn she saw that it was diminishing too fast, and when she had it 
ground she saw that she had only a little. She gathered up her meal 
and said nothing, but watched the next woman pound hercorn. It 
disappeared in the same way, and so did the corn of the third and the 
fourth women who came to use the mill. ‘They all wondered what 
could be the matter with the mill, and they examined it carefully and 
saw that it was not the old mill that they had always used. One of 
the women cried out to get an axe and cut it and see where their corn 
had disappeared. As oneof the women ran to get an axe the mill fell 
over and began to roll about, and Coyote jumped up from the place 
where the mill had been and ranaway. Coyote had turned into acorn 
mill and hidden the old one so that he could get all he wanted to eat. 
* Told by Wing. 
