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Show I got everydiing I wanted tiiere, good meat - buffalo, deer, elk, and antelope. I began to fight with many of my people, my friends. We thought we would beat them the next day but many ran away and only a few were left. I gave Noochee my mule. He has it now, and he has my girl too. He said, 'Let's have no more fighting. Let's have everything quiet and every one friends.' 'All right,' and I came home alone." Soon Green-Man went over to see Yellow-Man's people. "Well, how many came back?" he asked Yellow-Man. "Oh, most of them ran away from the fight. They were afraid. I thought they were all lost, for the women told me they were all killed, a diou-sand dead." Yellow-Girl's boys went hunting one day. They packed the mule with the meat, and started with Yellow-Girl to see her father. Noochee stayed at home. "You'd better take diat mule," he said to the boys. "Leave him outside of the town, for there is good feed there. Maybe the yellow men won't like him." They journeyed along slowly and left the mule in some good grass outside the town. Then they saw Yellow-Man. "Halloo, father!" "Halloo, girl!" They shook hands. "Halloo, my grandchildren!" and he kissed them. "Did you bring some buffalo-meat?" "Yes." "That's what I like, all kinds of meat. It tastes nice; I like it. Isn't Noochee coming?" "No, he is staying home to work." "Why doesn't he come over? We will counsel what he said. You'd better come over." The yellow man told all the people to come over to a big talk, and they all came to the council-house. Yellow-Girl and boys came in afterward and sat down in the middle. Then Yellow-Man spoke. "All my people! These are my grandchildren - Noochee's children. He is everybody's friend." Then all shook hands. "We must all be friends now. We must not kill each other, and everything must be quiet. Hereafter any one may visit any one else in safety, and any tribe may marry with any other tribe." 12 -COYOTE AND HIS SON Coyote came to a circular lake. It was very deep, and many men were diving and swimming diere. He walked around the lake and watched them, and presently he met a friend who was very poor. His clothes were ragged. "What do you call that thing?" asked Coyote, pointing to his hat. "That is my yellow hat," answered his friend. "Let's look around the lake a litde bit!" suggested Coyote. "You'd better use my hat," said his friend, "and go and see Yellow-Hat swim." "All right," said Coyote. "Let me use your hat and leggings; I'll go and see the Indian boys swim." "All right," said his friend, "I'll give them to you." Coyote put on die worn-out hat and leggings and went close to die lake. Many men were swimming in die lake - Indians, Mexicans, and white men. Yellow-Hat was there 36 with his hat and white whiskers. They had taken off all their clothes and were diving. Coyote looked very poor. Yellow-Hat said to him, "Poor fellow, why don't you swim?" and then he swam and dove. Coyote said nothing, but whistled. He thought, "Why does he talk to me like that?" All the men dove to the bottom and Yellow-Hat said, "I'll try that too." He seized a rock and sank to the bottom with it. They all watched him, but he did not come up. "What's die matter?" they thought, and they dove down after him, but could not find him. Coyote sat on the bank and whistled. Soon, all the men came up to him. "We will give you a girl," they said, "or anything you want if you will bring him up." So Coyote took off his old clothes, dove down to the bottom, and found the man. Then he came up, and said he had found the man, but could not lift him. "We will get a rope, a long rope, a lariat," they said. "We'll give you a nice girl and good clothes if you will tie this rope on him." Coyote went down and tied the rope to the man. Then all the men pulled so hard that the rope broke. Then they brought four or five ropes. "You had better tie all of them on," they said. "We'll surely give you the girl and things." Coyote went down and tied the ropes all over the man. All the men pulled again, but could not lift him. "Go get a mule," they said, but the mule did not help. They all wondered why they could not pull Yellow-Hat out. Then they thought they might be able to pull him out with Coyote's help. "Come on, help us lift." diey said. "We'll give you a nice girl or anything you want." So Coyote took hold of the rope. They all pulled together, and at last pulled Yellow-Hat out. "What shall we do now?" they said; and a white man said, "Maybe he is not dead. Maybe we can wake him up." "Are you a good doctor?" they asked Coyote. "If you make him well, we will give you all you want." Coyote thought Yellow-Hat would certainly get up; so he went to him, kicked him, and said, "My friend, get up!" "I'm very sleepy," said Yellow-Hat. "I'm tired of swimming, and sleepy." "But you must wake up now." "Why do you wake me? I'm sleepy." "We thought you were dead," said Coyote. "No, I'm only sleepy," answered Yellow-Hat. "All right. We woke you up," said Coyote. Then another man said, "Yes, he's a good doctor; he woke you up;" and all the people said to Yellow-Hat, "That good man pulled you up. We couldn't, but he woke you up." "I'm sleepy," replied Yellow-Hat. "We thought you were drowned and dead," they said. "What shall we do for this poor man? Let's give him a girl!" Coyote swam around the lake. Some of the people went home, but the rest said to Yellow-Hat, "This poor man pulled you out and woke you up. Give him your girl." "No, I got myself up," said Yellow-Hat; "I'm sleepy." At last he agreed to take Coyote to see the girl. "All right," said Coyote, "but wait till I go to my house to see my folks." "All right, poor man!" they said. 37 Coyote went home. He took off his old clothes and put good ones on, and then he returned to Yellow- Hat. "Let's see my girl!" he said. "Is that you?" Yellow-Hat asked. "Yes." The people looked him over. "Where did he get these nice clothes? What tribe does he belong to?" they asked. Then he went witii Yellow-Hat to see his daughter. She looked him over, for he was a nice-looking fellow. "I'll give you this man," said Yellow-Hat. "He rescued me. Do you like him?" "Yes, I like him very much," answered the girl. Yellow-Hat then asked him, "What tribe do you belong to? Are you a Ute?" "Yes, I'm a Ute," replied Coyote, "I'll give you a nice shirt and good clothes," said Yellow-Hat. Then he looked at Coyote's clothes, and saw that they were very good. "Where did you get those clothes?" he asked. "They are my own," said Coyote. "I don't like your dress, but I do like the girl." Then he went to her and asked her, "Do you like me?" "Yes," said she. "Well, I'll take you home, then." "All right," said Yellow Hat. But the people said, "Why did that nice girl marry that poor man?" The other men thought to themselves, "What's the reason that girl doesn't like me? I've got a nice race horse!" One of them had a sorrel-horse which had beaten all the others often. He met Coyote, and said, "Noochee! You can't beat my horse, poor man!" "Yes, I'll beat you," said Coyote. "I can beat you badly." "Go get your horse," said the man. "We'll race tomorrow." Coyote went home and met an antelope. "I am going to race somebody," he said. Then he changed the antelope into a little horse, and the next day he led him to town. He went to Yellow-Hat, and said, "Yellow-Hat, lend me some gold money." Then Yellow-Hat gave him a hatful of gold, and soon he met the white man. "Have you got money, poor man?" he asked Coyote. "All kinds," he replied and put the hat down. Now the man was afraid, and thought, "He is rich. What tribe does he belong to?" "Now, all you good men," said Coyote, "bet your money. You can beat me." All the white men bet. "Shall we run a mile?" asked the white man. "No, my horse can't run that far; make it five hundred yards." They raced, and Coyote won by a short distance. Then die man said, "Ute, your horse can't run a mile. He will surely give out." "All right," said Coyote, and they raced again. The antelope horse beat the other twice as far. Coyote laughed, and said, "I beat you." He took the money and the white man was much ashamed. One day Coyote's brodiers-in-law said to him, "There will be a big fight soon. Many Sioux are coming." "All right," said Coyote. "I will see the fight." All the Utes rode out to fight on die fine horses; but Coyote put on his old clothes and walked out to watch the fight. He carried only a stick. The Utes said to him, "You'd better go home. Then the Sioux will kill you." "Oh, I'll go and see you fight," he replied, and he lay down on a hill till sundown and 38 watched the fight. Then he walked home in the mud. The warriors said to him, "What are you doing here? Why don't you stay at home, poor man?" Coyote went home, changed his clothes, and went to sleep. His brothers-in-law reported, "We saw a poor man over there at the fight who walked in the mud. We don't know what tribe he belongs to. In the morning we will fight again." In the morning Coyote put on his old clothes and started out again. The warriors met him in the road. "What are you doing here?" they asked. "You haven't any horse." Coyote lay down on the hill all day, and when he came home at night die warriors laughed at him again. "What tribe do you belong to poor man? Are you Yellow- Hat's girl's husband?" Now Coyote was very angry. Early in the morning he got his white antelope horse, and said to him, "I want to fight with that man, because he talked mean to me." Then he rode over to the Sioux camp. "My friends," he said, "we will fight with my brothers-in-law, you and I." "All right," said they, so Coyote fought with the Sioux. The antelope horse was so fast that no one could hit him. He ran into die Utes and knocked them down. Coyote fought all day and killed many, and the Sioux told him to come back the next day. Then he went home, put on his good clodies, and sat down. Soon his wife and her brothers came in, and Yellow-Hat came over to talk about the fight. Coyote listened but said little. His brothers-in-law said, "We saw a big man with a tomahawk on a fine white horse. His horse was so fast that we couldn't hit him, but he rode easily and knocked every one down." Coyote said, "Is that so?" "You couldn't catch him, Noochee," his brother-in-law said. "Yes, I could," answered Coyote, and the next morning he went back again. He painted the horse to disguise himself, and joined the Sioux. "Let him fight some more," said die chief, and they rode up to the Utes. Coyote rode second, behind die war chief. He had a tomahawk and arrows of eagle-feathers, and he shot many Utes. They fought till sundown and were not hurt. "What kind of a man is that?" said die Utes. "He's a good medicine-man with a good horse. What's the reason we can't hit that spotted horse?" At night Coyote rode back. He turned loose the antelope horse, went home, and changed his clothes. His brothers-in-law came over again. Both of them were hurt. "We saw another fine man on a spotted horse," they said. "He was a big war chief and hit everybody." "Let me see the arrows diat hit you," said Coyote. They were his arrows. "They are all one kind of arrow," he said, and all the Utes wondered, "Why are all the arrows of one kind? He is not Sioux! We never saw that horse before." "Oh, maybe he came after the others. Maybe he's a war chief from another tribe," said Coyote. Many of the Utes were hurt. "Pull these arrows out!" they said to Coyote; maybe you can fix them." "I may kill you in pulling them out," he said. "Oh, you can get them 39 out all right," they said. Some were in tight and some broken off inside. Many men were dead. He pulled out about a hundred arrows. The Utes were very angry at the Sioux and wondered, "What's the reason we couldn't kill that war chief?" "Do you know him?" they asked Coyote. "No." "Well, we'll kill him the next time we fight." "Let's hunt buffalo!" all the men said one day, and started off. Coyote put on his old clothes and started with them. But they laughed at him, and said, "What are you doing, poor man? You have no horse. You'd better go home." Then they rode off and killed two buffalo, and when Coyote came up, they threw the entrails at him. He hurried home and changed his clothes, saw his wife, and sat down. Soon his brothers-in-law came in. "We shot two buffalo," they said, "and threw the entrails at a poor man there." "Is that so?" said his sister, and Coyote laughed. "We go again tomorrow," the brothers said. Coyote said, "Why don't you kill many buffalo? All you people killed only two!" In the morning they started out again. The other men rode horses, while Coyote walked in his rags. "Why are you coming? You'd better lie down; the buffalo will kill you," they jeered. Then they rode off and killed three buffalo, and threw the entrails at Coyote. "Why don't all you people kill more than three?" he said. "Maybe I could kill ten!" "You can't kill anything !" "You'll see soon. I can surely beat you; I can kill more than that." "No, you poor man! You have no horse. You have to walk." "Yes, I can surely." Then he ran home, changed his clothes, and saw his wife. Soon his brothers came over with a big piece of buffalo meat. "Why don't you kill more beef?" the girl asked. "Oh, the buffalo ran too fast. We saw a poor man over there, and we threw him the entrails. He said he could kill more than us, and we laughed." "Is that so?" said Coyote. "Maybe if I had a horse, I could kill more than that. Get a pack horse," he told his wife, "and I will go and hunt." Next day he started out with two pack-horses. "What are you going to do with these pack horses?" laughed his brothers. "They can't run, and you won't kill anything." "Yes, I'll surely kill them," replied Coyote, and he rode quickly to his old home and the antelope. He changed it into a bay-horse and made some good arrows. Then he set out with the two pack-horses and found plenty of buffalo. He chased them on his antelope horse, and killed five - four bulls and a cow-with five arrows. Then he changed the antelope back and turned him loose. He skinned the buffalo and packed the meat on the horses, and soon the rest of the men came up. They had killed only two. Coyote laughed. "What's the reason you can't kill the buffalo?" he said. "You don't know how. Look here! only one shot each." Then he led the pack-horses home, while the otiiers wondered, "What tribe does he belong to? He's a good shot and must have a good horse." His wife asked him, "How did you kill these, on horseback?" "Yes." 40 "Did you kill them easily?" "Yes." "Why can't the others kill more than two?" "Oh, they don't know how. They are too lazy." Now they had plenty of beef, and they dried it. Many people came to them, and said, "We are hungry," and they gave them plenty to eat. Yellow-Hat asked the others, "Why don't you kill more? You have good horses. What are you going to do with the hides?" he asked Coyote. "Oh, I'll tan them," he replied. "My wife will do it." Then he showed her how to tan the hide, and thus all the women learned to tan. They watched him, for diey never knew how before. Soon Coyote went out hunting again, and took his brothers-in-law along. They rode saddle-horses, but Coyote rode a pack-horse and carried his bow and arrows. They went on a hill where there were big white-pine trees, and looked around and saw some deer near by. Coyote crawled up close and shot two of them. Then he skinned them while his brothers watched him. They packed the meat on the horses and arrived home at sundown. His wife cooked the meat and said, "Yellow-Hat! Supper!" "That's a good supper," he said. "It tastes good. What kind of meat is this? Deer-meat? Elk-meat?" "It is deer meat," she replied. Another time Coyote went hunting with his brothers. On a mountain he saw many elk among the quaking asps. He crawled up close and killed a buck and a doe. Soon his brothers came up and looked at them. "What kind of a buckskin is that?" they asked. "This isn't a buckskin; this is an elk." "We never saw antlers like those before. What do you call them? They look like sticks on his head! Why has he got those antlers?" "Oh, he fights with them. He hooks the other elk." "Why has not the doe any antlers?" "She doesn't fight much, but she kicks and knocks with her head." Then Coyote skinned the elk. He packed all the meat, but left the heads behind. His wife cooked the meat and cried, "Yellow- Hat! Come to supper!" Yellow-Hat came, and said, "What kind of deer is diat? It doesn't taste the same as the other. I don't know what kind of meat that is; I never tasted it before." The girl replied, "This is elk-meat." "Is that so?" Yellow-Hat said. The boys said, "He has antlers like timber sticks and a big head. We will go and get it some time." Yellow-Hat said, "Yes, get it some day. I want to look at it." Again Coyote said to the boys, "We will go and hunt." They went up on a rocky mountain, but the boys were afraid to walk among the rocks, because they feared the rocks would fall on them. Coyote spied some mountain-sheep, and he crawled slowly around the rocks and shot a big sheep and a ewe. Then he skinned them and carried the meat to the horses far below. "Where did you get this meat?" the boys asked. "Oh, I got it way up the mountain." "We were afraid of the rocks. They might fall and kill us. It is too bad," said the boys. "Oh, they are all right," said Coyote. "They won't hurt any one." 41 Then diey packed the meat on the horses and went home. Coyote did not show them the heads. His wife cooked the meat and told Yellow-Hat to come to supper. "What kind of meat is this?" he asked. "I have never tasted it before." "It is mountain-sheep," the girl replied. "Why is he called that? Does he stay in the mountains?" "Yes," said the boys. "This man went far up in the high mountain, where we diought he would certainly be killed. We don't see how he could go so easily over the high cliffs. Then he came back with the meat." "Is that so?" said Yellow-Hat. They all ate together, and afterwards Yellow-Hat said to his daughter, "He knows everything! He knows everything we do! He knows about all kinds of meat. What's the reason?" "I don't know," said the girl. Yellow-Hat said to Coyote one day, "I hear there is an eagle upon that rock hill. Get the little eagle for me." Coyote went and found the litde eagle in its nest. Soon the father eagle came along and saw him, and said, "What are you doing here, Coyote? What's the matter?" Coyote said. "Yellow-Hat wants your little eagle." "Why does he want it?" "I don't know." "Well, go and ask Yellow-Hat why he wants my little eagle, and then come back and tell me," said the Eagle, "but don't tell him I said so." Coyote went home, sat down, and told Yellow- Hat, "I hunted all over the mountain and found it. Why do you want that litde eagle?" "I just want to see it," said Yellow-Hat. "I never saw one before, but I hear they have fine feathers and feet and tail. I saw a tribe who had eagle-feathers on their arrows, and sometimes they have them on their war headdresses too. I just want to see it, and then I'll turn it loose." "Well, all right," said Coyote, "but he won't stay in a house; he won't stay in an Indian teepee. He stays only on the rocks, because he likes it better." Then he went to the mountain again, and saw the big Eagle, and said to him, "Yellow-Hat wants to see an eagle. He saw a man with eagle feathers, how fine he looked. He has heard about eagles, but never has seen one." Then Coyote and the Eagle went to see Yellow- Hat. He saw them coming. They came close and sat down, and Yellow-Hat looked at the Eagle's beak and eyes. He noticed his claws, feathers, and tail, and was afraid, for it was a big eagle. "Is his name Eagle?" Yellow-Hat asked. "No, this is his fadier." "Well, why didn't you bring litde Eagle?" "I couldn't," replied Coyote. "Well, he will go now." The Eagle walked a litde ways, flapped his wings, and flew high. He kept going, and Yellow-Hat asked Coyote, "What's the reason he has claws on his feet?" "Oh, he can kill anything, a deer or a man. He feeds them to littie Eagle." "How does he fly so easily?" "The feathers make him fly." "Why doesn't he fall down? What kind of a man is he?" "Oh, he's the big chief of all the birds." "What kind of a chief ?" "He's chief of everything, talking and fighting." "Just the 42 same as I - a big man," said Yellow-Hat. "No," said Coyote, "he is a very big man. He is a good flyer, and has good feathers for war bonnets. He is a big chief, and all tribes are afraid of him." Then Yellow-Hat got up. He went around and told all the people, "Come over! We will have a council." Then all the people came over to see him, and he said, "I saw a big Eagle man here, a big war chief." A man asked, "Why did he come over here? He never visits, but sits down at home all the time. We never saw him near before, but only flying high in the air." Coyote said, "I will go and hunt again." He walked around in the sage-brush and killed two rabbits. These he brought home and gave to his wife, who cooked them and gave them to Yellow-Hat for supper. "What kind of meat is this?" he asked. "It has a nice taste." She replied, "Rabbit; there are many of them in the sage-brush." He told his boys, "You had better go hunt rabbits with your brotiier-in- Iaw." Then next time Coyote went hunting, they went along. He killed two jack-rabbits, but the boys killed none. The rabbits ran so fast they did not see them. "What's the reason they never stop running?" they asked. They took the rabbits home and Coyote's wife cooked them. Yellow-Hat came in and tasted it. "That's a good taste," he said. "What kind of meat is that?" "Oh, that's jack-rabbit." "Why don't you kill some?" he asked the boys. "Oh, diey never stop running. That's the reason we didn't kill any/' said the boys. "But this man knows how. He kills them easily." Yellow-Hat told his daughter, "Tell your husband to go and kill some buffalo. Kill five, for we want some blankets." "All right," said Coyote, and he went after his antelope, about fifty miles away. Then the antelope saw him coming, and came up to him. Coyote changed him into a bay-horse and led him home. "Where did you get this fine horse?" they asked him. "Oh, he's my horse. He stays at my old home." The brothers looked all over him, for he was a good horse. They rode out a little ways, and found plenty of buffalo. Coyote chased them, and killed five - three cows and two bulls - and dien he packed the beef and returned to the hunting-camp at the spring. The boys had chased other buffalo on their horses. "Let's kill one!" said the boys. "All right." Then they chased a buffalo but it turned around and charged them. The boys were afraid and ran back and held their horses. It did not look like a buffalo; it looked like a bear. It pulled one of diem from his horse, and scratched and bit him. The other boy ran back to Coyote and said, "An animal caught my brother. I think it's a bear. It will kill any one." Coyote went to the other boy, who was bitten all over and nearly killed. "That's a pretty bad bear," said Coyote, but he did not go after it. "Let's take him home!" said his brother, so they put him on a horse and went home. He told Yellow-Hat, "An animal nearly killed my brother." "What kind of an animal?" 43 he asked. "A bear," said Coyote. "He's a bad bear; he is killing somebody all the time. You can't kill him." Yellow-Hat was very angry, and told all the people they would go after the bear the next day. They asked Coyote, "What kind of an animal bit him?" "His name is Bear, Big Claws," replied Coyote. "He will kill anything and eat it." The next day all took their packs and went to the hunting-spring. Coyote thought, "Well, they can kill him. I won't do it." The brother went on ahead. "Show us the place," they said. "Right here," he said. "We sat down over there." They saw some big tracks. "What are those long tracks with paws and claws?" they asked, and followed the tracks into a clump of willow-trees. Coyote thought, "Bears like service-berries," and he looked in the bushes. He saw where the bears had killed buffalo and eaten them. Then they had lain down to sleep, but they woke up when they heard the noise of the people following their tracks. "Now the people are coming to kill us," said Bear to his mate. "Let's go after them!" "All right." The people were saying, "We will surely kill them," but Coyote carefully kept behind. He knew all about the Bears, but said nodiing, for he wanted to see what would happen. Suddenly the Bears jumped out and chased the people. The horses bolted; some of the men fell off, and some were dragged by the stirrups. The rest ran. The Bears bit the horses in the rumps, and then they came back and killed those lying on the ground. Coyote watched the fight and laughed. His brother rode home, and told Yellow-Hat, "That Bear is very fierce. I saw the tracks of his long feet." Then he told all about the fight. "Why did you run?" asked Yellow-Hat. "Why didn't you kill him?" "We couldn't hold our horses. He killed many men, and every one was afraid of him," said the boy. "Well what did Coyote do?" "Oh, he stayed behind and just watched." Now Yellow-Hat was more angry. "Well, I will go and kill it," he said, and the next day he went with more people. The brother went on ahead to show the way. He showed them the tracks, and said, "Look! they lay down here." The Bears had gone on to a new place to kill buffalo, and they were lying down in a Cottonwood tree. The people followed their tracks from the old camp. Yellow-Hat carried a gun, and he thought he could see a long ways. Coyote came up to him, and said, "That Bear is pretty fierce. You can't hold your horse." "Oh, I don't care," said Yellow-Hat. "We will kill diem all right." The Bears heard the noise. "Now people are coming to kill us," one said. "All right. Let's go after them and kill some more!" said the other. Yellow-Hat came up close with his gun, but the Bears growled and chased him. All the horses bolted, so that the men could not shoot. One of the Bears bit Yellow-Hat's horse, which bucked and broke the bridle. The horses ran all the way home, while Coyote laughed again. Yellow-Hat said, "He scared my horse. What kind 44 of a man can he be, that I can't hold my horse?" He was frightened but angry, and he told all the people to come the next day with spears. "Let's go out!" he said. "We will kill them surely." Next day they started out again, and asked Coyote to go along. "No, I'm afraid," he answered. "I don't know how to kill them. I won't go." "Oh, we will surely kill them this time." "No, you can't kill them. You had better scatter and surround diem, and then advance," he said to Yellow-Hat. The Bears had moved again and were sleeping after eating buffalo. Then the men surrounded them, but the Bears heard the noise and woke up. "People are coming," they said. "Let's chase them! They ran away easily." They chased some of the men, but others came up behind and speared and shot them. Coyote watched the big fight. At last the Bears turned and ran into the willows, and then all the men went home. They thought they had killed the Bears, but Coyote said, "No, they are not dead." "Why didn't you help to kill them?" Yellow-Hat asked him. "Were you afraid?" "Why do you talk about fighting all the time, and then never kill anything?" replied Coyote. "Well," said Yellow-Hat, "let's fight again tomorrow! I'll surely kill them. You don't know how to fight!" And all the people cried, "O Coyote! He doesn't know anything about fighting! The Bears certainly will kill him!" Then Coyote went after his antelope. He caught him and changed him into a black horse. Then he blackened his own face also and rode to die camp. "Let's go now!" he said. The Bears had moved again. "See! Here are tiieir tracks," said Coyote. "They went this way; you didn't kill them." The path was covered with arrows which the Bears had pulled out. "Look at your little arrows," he said, and the people looked at them, and said, "This is my point; this is mine. How is that? I thought I hit him hard, clear dirough. Oh, I can't hurt him! I'm a poor shot. What's the reason I didn't hurt him much?" Coyote had long spears and arrows, and he followed the track and told the people to follow a quarter mile behind. The Bears were sleeping after eating buffalo, but they heard the noise, and said, "People are coming. Let's kill them!" But they saw only Coyote. He said to his horse. "Run about quickly this way and that!" Then die Bears chased him, but the antelope horse ran around behind them. They ran on towards die others, while Coyote speared them from behind. "Waow, waow!" they cried. One Bear turned and got behind them, but the antelope horse ran behind him, and Coyote speared both and killed one. The other one chased him, but the horse evaded him, and Coyote killed both. Then the rest of the hunters came up. They looked at the claws, the teeth, tail, hams, legs, and shoulders, for the Bears were very big. Coyote skinned them, and took the meat and hide to Yellow-Hat. "I will keep it," he said. Then he showed it to the people and said, "You were all afraid of him." He thought, "That man is a good 45 hunter. How is it he can kill anything? What kind of a man is he?" Coyote sat down by his wife. "I think we will have a baby soon," she said. "How do you know?" he asked. "What kind of a baby have you inside you, boy or girl?" "I don't know." She said she thought it was a girl, but Coyote guessed a boy. Soon a boy was born and grew up. Then a girl came, and a child was born every year until they had five. The oldest boy went hunting. Coyote said to him, "You had better go and hunt deer." Nobody told him how to hunt, but maybe he knew it was a deer, so he crept up and Shot it. Then he packed the meat home and gave it to his parents. "How did you know how to hunt?" his mother asked him. "You are young. Who told you how?" "Oh, nobody told me. I just knew." He went hunting again among the quaking aspen, and saw an elk. He crept up and killed it, and dien he skinned it and packed the meat home on his back. He left the antlers behind. "Well, my son," said Coyote, "why didn't you ride a horse? You will break your back. What did you kill?" "Elk." "How do you know?" "Oh, I know I killed it." His mother said, "You must hunt next time on horseback." Again he went out to hunt and killed a mountain-sheep. He packed the meat on his horse and brought it home. His mother said to Yellow-Hat, "Your grandchild can kill all kinds of animals - deer, elk, and mountain-sheep." "How does he know?" said Yellow-Hat; "maybe somebody told him, and showed him how." "No he just does it himself." "Can you shoot buffalo?" she asked him one day. "Yes, I can do it," "Do you know how to kill them?" "Yes." "The Buffalo may horn you." "Oh, I know how." So he went hunting buffalo. Now he needed a horse, and thought he could get one at his father's old home. So he went there, but found nothing but a Crow. "What kind of a horse does my father use when he goes after buffalo?" he asked the Crow. "Are you his son?" "Yes." "How old are you?" "About twenty-two." "Sure?" "Yes." Then the Crow looked in his mouth. "Yes, you are his boy," he said; "you have teeth like Coyote. Did you see that antelope? That's the horse; he is Coyote's friend. Coyote changes him into a horse and puts on a bridle and saddle. You had better change him." Then die boy said to the antelope, "I think I will make you a brown horse." So he changed him into a horse, and rode after buffalo, He killed a cow and a small bull, and skinned them. He packed the meat and hit on his horse, and threw the rest away. Then his friend the Crow cried, "Kak, kak!" to get the fat, blood and grease. When the boy came home, his mother said, "How is it my boy kills all these buffalo, when many people here never kill any? He beats them all." "Oh, I just know how," said die boy. "My father used to do it. I think that's the reason." "Yes," answered his mother. Then Yellow-Hat came and saw the meat. 46 "How is this? He kills buffalo? He can do anything! Who showed him how?" "I will go and hunt again," said the boy, and he went to his father's old house and met the Crow. "I am going hunting," he told him. "You had better not go this way," the Crow said. "There is a strong bear there. If you see him, climb quickly up a tree. Come and see me when you come back again, and if you don't come back soon, I will go and hunt you." "All right," said the boy, and he went into the service-berry bushes. There he saw some long tracks. "What tracks are they?" said he; "Bear?" He thought they were. "What kind of a bear is it? I want to see." Then he noticed the track of a little bear. Suddenly die bear appeared with a snarl, "Yiow," and the boy climbed into a tree. The bear sat under the tree and waited until sundown. All day the Crow waited for the boy, and at sundown he said, "He has not come. Maybe he is hurt." Then he flew to find the boy crying, "Kak, kak!" "Here!" called the boy, and the Crow came up to the tree. "The Bear came after me," said die boy. "I will go and see Coyote," said the Crow, and he flew away. The Bear heard what he said. "What tribe does he belong to?" he thought. "Maybe he is Coyote's boy, and I had better let him go or Coyote will be angry. Well, I don't care." The Crow found Coyote, and told him, "Bear is sitting under the tree with the boy in it. I saw them." "All right," said Coyote and in the morning he got his antelope horse and his arrows, and set out with the Crow. The Boy saw his father coming. The Bear looked around but thought it was not Coyote, and stood up on his back legs. Now he saw it was Coyote and ran at him. He tried to throw the horse down, but could not hurt him, and Coyote shot him in die neck. "Wow!" he cried, and ran. Then Coyote shot clear through him and killed him. He skinned him, and gave the Crow plenty of meat. The boy jumped out of the tree, crying, "I'll go and get the little bear." "No, she will scratch you," said Coyote. But the boy caught the little bear, although she scratched him, and tied her legs together. Then they carried her home to Yellow-Hat, and fastened her to a log by a chain. The boy fed her and talked to her all the time. "All right," said the Bear, and soon she was like a dog. Coyote now had three boys and two girls, all grown up. Some boys came to see the girls, but the Bear ran after them, and they never came back, for diey were afraid of the Bear. The eldest boys went out of the timber-line to hunt elk and deer. They killed a deer, but Mountain-Lion scared them and they climbed a tree. Another time, the eldest boy took the Bear out hunting, and they saw the round track of Mountain-Lion. The Lion had just killed a deer, but ran after the boy. He told the Bear, "Something scared me; you had better kill it." So the Bear and the Mountain-Lion fought. Three times the Lion direw the Bear down, and her back was nearly broken. 47 Then she and the boy ran away. "Did he hurt you?" die boy asked. "Yes," replied the Bear in a deep tone. They killed a deer and took it home, and the boy told Coyote, "A big, yellow, long-tailed animal with round feet scared me once, so I took the Bear along. He nearly killed us. What do you call him?" "That is the Mountain-Lion. He is a very strong fellow, and nobody can hold him. He can lift anything or break any thing." "Well, father," said the boy, "I want to get the little Mountain-Lion." Maybe he will kill you. He is angry, and he can jump a long ways. No don't do it!" said the Coyote, and then he went to see the Bear. "Are you hurt?" he asked. "Yes." "Well, you will be all right soon. You are not much hurt." And he put some medicine on her. Again they went hunting and killed two good deer. "You had better stay here and guard the meat. Somebody might come and steal it," he told the Bear, and went away. A Ute who was hunting near by saw the meat and came up to it, but he did not see the Bear until she chased him. She bit the man in the neck and killed him and then covered him over with mud. Soon the boy returned after killing another deer. He came over and saw the covered man. "What's the matter with him? What is he doing there? Who bit him? You?" "I don't know." "This is pretty bad. I guess you killed him." "I guess so." Now die boy was very much afraid. He went home with the Bear and the meat, and told Coyote, "We went out to hunt and killed two deer. I gave the Bear one to eat, and told her, 'You had better stay here and watch this other one while I go and hunt more.' Then I killed another, and packed it back, and asked the Bear, 'What's the matter with this man here?' I think she killed him, but she says she doesn't know. I told her that someone might come to steal the meat, and I think that's the reason she killed him. I was afraid to come back because she had killed a Ute." "That's very bad," said Coyote. Another time they went hunting and killed two deer. The boy gave the Bear one to eat, and told her to stay there while he killed another one. Then the Bear walked behind him home. They came home tired. "Halloo, Bear!" said one of the girls. She liked the girls, but the Ute boys said, "What's the reason that Coyote keeps that Bear? We like his girls." They came to see the girls when the Bear was out hunting. They went out hunting again, and killed two deer. The Bear was lewt to watch one, but fell asleep, and Yellow-Bear came and began to eat the meat. Then the other Bear woke up and chased him. They fought, and the Yellow-Bear threw the other into the meat and ran away. Soon the boy returned with another deer, and found the meat all in bits in a mess, and the Bear gone. He was surprised and wondered what had happened, so he waited a long while and then heard a puffing noise. He jumped into a tree, but it was only his Bear. She was all torn. "What have you been doing?" the boy asked. "I don't know." "You have been fighting?" "Yes," "Whom did you fight? 48 Mountain-Lion?" "No." "Yellow-Bear?" "Yes." "Well, this meat is in a pretty bad condition. You had better eat it." Then he took the other meat home, and told Coyote, "I told the Bear to watch the meat, but when I came back, it was all in the dirt. I thought the Bear had been fighting, so I waited a couple of hours. 'Have you been fighting?' I asked her. 'Yes.' 'Whom have you been fighting with? Yellow-Bear?' 'Yes.' Then I said to her, 'Eat this meat.' " Now the boy wanted to get married, so he went to visit the Utes. He told Coyote that he wanted a ring, and Coyote told him to go and see Yellow-Hat. He told Yellow-Hat that he wanted some gold earrings, arm-bands, blankets, and other things. "Why don't you ride a horse?" Yellow-Hat asked him. "I will give you a saddle and blanket, and if you don't find anything, come back." "All right," said the boy, and he took a bay-horse with the saddle and blanket. One of his sisters said, "Why don't you take a pack-horse with food?" "Oh, I don't care to," replied the boy, "I will kill something and cook the meat." But he got a pack-horse and tried it. "All right," he said. "Maybe it is the best way." Then he told his parents, "Don't let the Bear loose, and don't hurt her." The Bear stood up on her hind-legs when the boy approached. "Stay here with my father and don't fight. I am going after a girl, but I will come back soon and bring you something." "Yes," said the Bear. Then the boy said goodby to all the family. Which way shall I go?" he asked his father. "East? South? North? West?" "Go this way, west," said Coyote. "There are many Ute there, many deer and odier things." So the boy started and travelled along, and at sundown he tied his horses and camped. In the morning he cooked breakfast, and went after his horses, travelled until sundown, and camped again. At night he heard a cry, "Wuu uu uu u!" "What kind of an animal is that?" he thought. In the morning he went on again, and at noon he killed and skinned a buffalo and ate it. Soon he saw the Crow coming, "Kak, kak!" "Halloo, Crow! Are you hungry? Help yourself, and take anything you want." "Well, Crow I am visiting over this way. Do you know many people over here?" "Yes, I saw many people about five hundred miles over here, many of them Utes." "Have they nice girls?" "Yes, plenty of them. There are three or four different kinds of people there. Tonight, about sundown, you will reach a nice spring. Sleep and hobble your horses there, and when you get up tomorrow, you will see another horse there, with big ears. That is a mule." "Big ears?" asked the boy. "What kind of an animal was that which cried 'Wu uu uu uu u!' last night? Was that a mule?" "Yes, he smelled your horses a long ways off. He smelled your track and followed it, and he will follow your pack-horse and stay with you all the time. Catch him and try a saddle on him. Break him, and he will be gentle and go well. Then pack him the next time, for he will make a good pack-animal. Five sleeps farther 49 you will find a house. You will get married and stay one moon. Then come back and see me, for I will look for you. If you do not come, I will go after you to see why you are lost." "All right," said the boy, and he went on. That night he slept at the spring. He hobbled his horses and built a fire, and at breakfast he saw a big brown horse with big ears. He looked around and thought, "That's a mule, a fine mule." Then he packed his pack-horse. The first time the mule saw the man, he was very much afraid, but he watched the packing and followed behind all day. Now he was no longer afraid and came up close. Next morning after camping, the boy got breakfast and caught his horses. The mule smelled the saddle and blew "Prur!" He was not afraid now. The boy saddled his horse and made a little corral. He led the horses into the corral, and the mule followed. Then he caught the mule, patted and stroked him, and put a saddle on him. The mule balked at first, but soon quieted. They travelled thus all day, and the next day he packed the mule. He killed a buffalo and packed it on the mule. It was a big pack, and he said, "Possibly some Utes will see me a long ways off with two horses and a pack-mule, and they will think well of me. In five days more he saw many teepees and many people. He went up to the teepees, and met the people, and all the Utes came around. "He has two pack-horses," they said. "Why is that? That one is a wild mule. Nobody could catch him, he was so wild." Some of the young men asked him, "Why have you come here?" "Oh, I came to see some girls," he said, and he went to the head chief's house and stayed widi the chief. One of the young men told him, "That house has three nice girls; that one, all nice girls and not married." The boy stood in the doorway with Yellow-Hat's yellow blankets around him. Two of the girls said, "He is not like our men. What tribe does he belong to? He is not married, and he must be rich, for he has a pack-mule, pack horse, and saddle horse, and nice blankets. We will ask our brothers to go to see him tomorrow." The brothers came to see the boy the next day. They came in and shook hands with him, and looked him over. He had a nice gold ring, arm-bands, and other ornaments, and a fine blanket. He was a good-looking man. They returned and told their sisters that he was a good man, with a gold ring, arm-bands, and other ornaments. "It that so?" said the girls, and they said to their brothers, "Ask him to come here. We want to see him." The brothers went to die boy and said, "Our sisters want to see you." "All right," said he, "I'll have supper pretty soon, and then I'll come to see them." After supper he asked the other Indians, "What kind of girls are they?" "They are nice girls," they said. "All right," said he, "I'll go over." The girls combed their hair and got well dressed. They greeted 50 him and said, "You had better sit down here." Then they looked him over and thought he was a fine man, with nice earrings, rings, arm-bands, and yellow blanket. They liked him and said, "Which one of us do you like best?" "I don't know." "Do you like both of us?" He thought he did, so the girls told all their relatives to come and look him over. "How do you like him?" they asked. "Very well," they said. "He is a good man, and has got good horses, mules, and other things. He is rich." The girls said to him, "You had better stay here tonight." They quickly fixed up a bed, and he went to sleep. When he woke up, he went over the chief's house for breakfast. "Why doesn't he eat breakfast here?" said the girls, and they sent dieir brothers to tell him to come back to breakfast. So he came back and had some more to eat. He married both of the girls and stayed there a long time. He hunted buffalo with the pack-mule, hunted all the time, and gave his wives and brothers plenty to eat - antelope, deer, mountain-sheep, buffalo, and other animals. More than a month passed, and he went out on the hills to kill buffalo. He tied his horse, fired a log, and skinned and cooked the buffalo. The Crow came flying along, crying, "Ka, ka! What's the reason he does not come?" he thought. Then he saw a fire far off and flew towards it. "Maybe it is he!" he thought, and flew fast. The boy saw him, and said, "That looks like the Crow." "Ka, ka!" "Well, Crow," he said, "help yourself. Are you tired?" "Yes, I am tired, for I have come a long ways. I've been hunting for you, for you did not come back as I told you to do. Are you married?" "Yes. I married two girls long ago. My wife will have a child soon. Pretty soon it will be born. I am hunting buffalo now." "All right," said the Crow. "I will go home now. When are you going home?" "Pretty soon." Then the Crow cried, "Ka, ka!" and flew back home. Coyote came to see him, and asked him, "How's my boy? Have you seen him?" "Yes, I saw him a short while ago when he went traveling. I told him all about the mule and he packed him. Now he has a good mule." Soon the two wives had children, a boy and a girl. The father took his family to see Coyote. "We will go and see our Bear," he told the baby. "I have a Bear at home." "Why has he a bear?" all the people asked. "That is rather strange! How could he catch him? We are all afraid of bears, because they scratch, bite, and kill everydiing. What kind of man is he?" One chief said, "I think he is called Coyote; I know all about his father, and I think this is his boy." The boy started out, but was soon met by the Crow, who had looked around on the road and seen many Sioux coming for a fight. He knew all about the Sioux, and they saw him, so he returned to tell the boy. "You had better not go that way. The Sioux are there," he told him. The boy came up and saw die Sioux in the road; so he went back quickly and told the Utes, "The Sioux are coming!" All die 51 Utes quickly got their horses. "Go and watch them," he told the Crow, "and I will tell die people." So Crow went back to watch. Next morning the boy killed three buffalo about fifteen miles away from the town, and packed the meat home. The Crow watched the Sioux coming; they came up to where the Buffalo had been killed. "They are well skinned," diey said. "What kind of a man killed them? Ute? Coyote? Let's follow the tracks back! He has a mule and a horse. What tribe can he belong to? Ute? White Man? Crow? Snake? Bannock? What tribe?" Then they followed the mule's tracks and came within ten miles of the town, the Crow watching them closely. The Utes fixed their bows and arrows and went out to fight, and there was a big fight. Coyote's boy fought too and was not afraid. He was a good shot and killed many Sioux, and they said "What tribe is he from? Ute? He is a good shot and has a fine bay-horse. We can't hit him." Next morning they fought again, and many Sioux were killed. "What kind of a man is he?" they exclaimed. "He comes close and beats all the Sioux." Now more Sioux came up. "One man is very fast," the old chief told them. "He killed many of my people." "Oh, I'll kill him surely!" said die new chief. The boy rode the mule in battle next time, and he had a spear. "What tribe can be belong to? He has a mule! We never saw that before. He is the same man and a good fighter." Three times the Sioux came, and they were nearly all killed. They and the Utes each held a council. The boy told the Utes, "Let's surround them!" and they did it. Few Sioux were left, and they dug holes with their knives, and hid in them, and cried. Two days and two nights they stayed there, and they were hungry and thirsty. At last the Sioux chief said, "I'm thirsty; let's quit fighting and be friends!" Then he came up and talked to the Ute chiefs, and they shook hands and embraced. "There must be no more fighting," they said. "All people must be friends, every tribe - Crow, Arapaho, Comanche, Snake, all of them." "All right," said the Sioux chief, and he went back and talked to his people. "Let's quit fighting," he said. Then they shook hands with all die Utes. "Well, we will let you go home," said the Utes, "And we will give you something to eat." So they went up to the town. The Sioux were very hungry so the Utes gave them plenty of water, good fat meat, and blankets to keep them warm on the way home. They gave them leggings, moccasins, and dresses. "There must be no more fighting." they said. The Utes gave them arrows and other things. "We are nearly all killed," said the chief. "That is pretty bad. We want some of you to come and visit the Sioux." About twenty of the Utes went home with the Sioux, and Coyote's boy went along. They killed plenty of deer and buffalo on the way. They went to the Sioux teepees, and the Sioux looked around and sang. Then the Crow came flying up. "We killed the 52 Sioux and became friends," the boy told him, "and we went home with them. Maybe they will kill us over here. I will be back in one moon, but if I don't come, come here after me. Go and tell Coyote." The Crow flew back and told Coyote, "Your boy fought widi the Sioux. I told him about them. It was a big fight, and they killed nearly all. The Sioux dug holes, and the rest said, "Let's be friends.' " He told Coyote all about it, and Coyote said, "All right. You had better look after him, and let me know what you find out." So the Crow flew back to the Sioux country. The boy went around and shook hands with all the Sioux. There was much crying, and many of the Sioux were saying, "They killed my brother, my father; he says he killed my relatives, and I want to kill him." But the rest said, "No, we made friends. We said, 'We must have no more fighting,' and shook hands. Now all tribes can marry into other tribes, and there is no more trouble, no more fighting." "All right," said the otiiers, and they passed around and smoked the long pipes in council. "All right, we will be friends," said the Sioux. "We will give you horses and other things," and they gave the Utes bead work, porcupine-quill-work, moccasins, leggings, and many other objects, which the Utes took home to their friends. The boy now took his wife and child to see his Bear. "Halloo, my Bear!" he said. Now the Bear was well and quite large. "Maybe you could throw down Mountain-Lion now. Do you think so?" "Yes." Then the boy took the child to his grandmother. "I want to take the Bear along and hunt a mate," he said. "Maybe we will get some little Bears soon." So they went out hunting, and killed some deer. "You had better stay here while I kill some more," he said. Another day he did the same thing. The Bear fell asleep, but when another Bear came up, they played together and ran off. When the boy came back, he said, "Where is my Bear? She is gone." Then he went home thinking he would get some little Bears soon. Soon he went hunting again and killed a couple of deer. While he left them and went after others, the Bears came up, ate some of the deer, and lay down. When the boy returned, he found the Bears there. The other Bear ran away but his Bear stayed. "Halloo, Bear! are you staying here?" "Yes." So he took her home, and in the spring he had two little Bears. Soon they grew up. One of them went out to seek a male Bear, and soon they had many Bears. All the people came to see them. They hurt nobody, but ate service-berries. When the little Bears came back, the boy put them all in a corral. Then he spoke to the Bears, "You had better hunt for things to eat, but don't hurt anybody. When people kill deer, you can eat the bones and parts they leave." One day the boy went hunting with the pack-mule and killed a buffalo. Then the Crow came flying up, "Ka, ka!" "Halloo, Crow!" said he. "Halloo!" said the Crow. "I think you will kill two big buffalo now. Then look around, and you will see 53 something that looks like a mule's track. Then go home. Four or five days after that, come back and bring a mare along. Camp over there by the spring and tie the mare. When you get up in the morning, look around, and you will see an animal with big ears like a mule, big head, roan back, black hair, and white breast. Maybe he will cry. He will like your mare, so don't drive him off, but let him alone. Hunt buffalo and pack it, and let him follow behind you home. He is Jackass, and he raises mules. I have known all about that for a long time. Next spring a litde mule will come, and then many little mules. Jackasses make mules; horses make only horses, no mules. You will get plenty of pack-mules, and people will buy them." "All right," said the boy, and he did so and bred a mule. Then he got plenty of mares and raised many mules. He drove them over to the spring and branded and corralled them. Then the other people came around. "How does he get so many mules and horses?" they asked. Some of them wanted to buy and offered him buffalo blankets and other things. He had plenty of money, so he sold them for bead-work, porcupine-quill-work, leggings, moccasins, dresses, and such things. Soon he had plenty of them. Again the boy went hunting and met the Crow. "Pretty soon you will go hunting again," he told him. "Take your wives and child along and make a camp, and when you wake up, you will find something." The boy went home, and said to his wife, "Let us go hunting!" When they camped, the Crow came flying up. "Well, are you going to camp here?" "Yes, I will kill deer, and give you all you want to eat." "Well," said the Crow, "plant two stakes in the ground, and put two across them, and you will see somediing in die morning." The boy did so, and his wife said, "Why are you doing that?" "I don't know, but Crow knows, and we will soon." Then they went to sleep. Early in the morning he looked out, but saw nothing, and went to sleep again, but at daybreak he heard "A uuuu!" and "kwa, kwa!" and when he looked out, he saw some birds with fine feathers and tails, and long necks. "What kind of birds are they?" he cried. Then he went out hunting, and left his wives at home. He killed and skinned a deer, and then the Crow came up. The boy said, "We heard some fine birds crying, which had red heads and long legs. One large one cried, 'A uuuu!' The smaller ones cried, 'Kwa, kwa!" They are chickens," said die Crow. "The other is a rooster. Feed them something. Have you any wheat? No? Well, give them corn or bread. Look around and you will find some seeds. Put diem in the ground, and put some water on them, and wheat will grow. You may get corn and wheat diere. Next time plant in more, and next spring you will get much. You will get more each year. Feed the chickens well, and make a litde house for them to sleep in at night. Dont botiier diem, but when you hear a chicken cry, go down and look, for there is an egg diere." The boy fed diem well and found eggs every 54 day, and after a while little chickens came. These grew, and soon they had plenty of chickens, roosters, and eggs. The boy's wives cooked the eggs and they ate them. They raised corn, wheat, melons, squashes, carrots, turnips, and other vegetables. One day the girls' two brothers said, "Let's go and see our sisters." "All right," said die parents, so they killed a buffalo and dried the meat and packed it. Then they travelled along till they found the mule's track, and one said, "Here is his track; he hunted buffalo and killed one here; he camped over there. This is my sisters' track; I know it. We will go on. Here are two children's tracks, one little, one big. Well, I guess I am an uncle now! I think this oldest one is a boy, the little one a girl. All right, we are uncles now! That is nice. I would like to see those children and kiss them." Then they followed the track until they came to the camp, and hurried to the teepee to see their sisters. One looked behind the teepee, and he was very much scared by the Bear there. He stopped. Then they heard many noises, "A uuuu!" and "Kwa, kwa!" "What kind of a noise is that? What kind of birds are they? Crows? We never heard that noise before!" They saw many birds with long necks and tails and red heads, black, white, roan, and all colors. "What kind of birds are they?" they asked. The two children then ran inside and told their mothers, "Two men are coming." They saw them, and said, "These are your uncles. Come on, brothers! Hurry!" They came in and sat down. "Halloo, uncles!" cried the children. "We are glad to see you." "It feels good to see you," said the boys, and they kissed the children. "We want to go and hunt,' said the boys. "All right," said Coyote's boy, and they took a pack-horse and went out and killed some deer. The boys saw all the mules, and said, "What is the reason he has so many mules?" They saw the jackass, and said, "What kind of a horse is that?" "Oh, that is a jackass." They liked to stay with their sister. They saw the chickens, and asked, "What are these?" "They are chickens. They make good eggs, and are good eating." The boys ate some and thought diem good. They stayed diere a year and hunted often. "Well, we must go home and see our father," they said at last. "All right," said Coyote's boy, "I will see you again. Come again!" "Oh, it is too far!" said they. "You had better each ride a horse and take a pack-mule," he told them. "Take some food, so you will not be hungry. Then you can kill buffalo easily. Take horses; that is the best way. Walking is not good; it hurts your legs." He gave them horses, mules, pack-saddles, and blankets, and they started off. They hunted buffalo with their horses on the way home, and packed the meat and hide. They had many sleeps on the way, but at last got home. All the people looked them over and said, "They are good fellows. They have two fine horses, and a pack-mule, and blankets." 55 The boys hunted often, and with their horses they killed buffalo easily and packed the meat. The Utes thought that way best. Coyote's boy went hunting again. He had killed a buffalo when the Crow came up. "Crow, my friend," he said, "take all you want and eat it. Tell me, what shall I do?" "Go and hunt," said the Crow, "and kill some buffalo. Then go home and stay three or five days, and come to hunt again. I will see you then and talk to you." The boy did so. He came hunting again and met the Crow "Are you hungry, my friend Crow?" "Ye ye, ye!" Then he flew up and said, "Well, I just saw another kind of a buffalo. Go and get all your horses, and I will show you another kind, called cow. They are of all colors, - red, yellow, and black. You can chase them and drive them, but first fix a corral." "All right," said the boy, "let's fix a corral!" and they made one. Then the Crow showed him the cows. "Do you see them? Do you think they are buffalo?" "No." "You had better drive them in. Drive them hard, for they are wild." Then the boy drove them all in, calves, yearlings, and all. "Mu, mu!" they cried. "The Indians call them koochoopook; white people call them cows," said the Crow. "All right." "Coyote knows all about them," said the Crow. The boy drove them all home. "You had better make some steers," the Crow told him. "Leave three or four bulls, and tie up the calves and milk them." The boy did so. He did not do it well the first time, but the second time he learned how. He gelded some to make them fat steers, and he milked the cows, and killed the steers and skinned them. They ate the meat and thought it nice. Coyote came to him and said, "You had better make some dry meat. Hammer it and make it good. Then it won't spoil." Soon he had plenty of cows and herds. Coyote came to visit his grandchildren and his boy. "How did you know how to get the bear, horse, mule, cows, jackass, and chickens?" "Oh, the Crow told me, and now I know how." "Is that so!" Again the boy went out to hunt deer and mountain- sheep, and when he camped, the Crow came up. "You had better go into the canyon," he said. "You will see something over there." They went to the canyon, and saw two animals rooting in the ground. "What kind of animals are they?" the boy asked. "They are pigs, and good to eat. Feed them, and make them fat." "But they are too wild," said the boy; "I couldn't hold them." Then he built a corral and drove them in, and then drove them home before him. "Ump, ump, ump!" they cried. He made a pen out of logs, and put them in and fed them anything, and soon he had many little pigs. He killed and ate them, for they were fat and good to eat. He tried out the fat and made lard. The boy went out to hunt long-tailed deer. In the willows he killed two, and dien the Crow came up crying. "Are you hungry?" "Yes." "Very hungry?" "Yes." "Well, help yourself," and the Crow ate. "I will tell you something another time," he said to him. 56 The Crow flew all around and found a fine lake. When he went there, he saw plenty of fish, big ones, some long, some round, some small. The next time the boy came hunting, he told him, "I saw fish over at a lake. You had better go over there, and maybe you can kill them and eat them. Take arrows and put long points on them. Shoot the fish and eat them." So the boy went to the lake and die big springs. He twisted horse-hair and fixed an iron hook on the end. Then he tied it to a stick and put a fly on the hook, and when the fish bit, he pulled them out and killed them. That is the best way. Many times he tried this and caught and killed plenty. He carried the fish home with him and told his wives and child, "I will go and see Yellow-Hat and take him some fish." He knocked on the door. "Halloo, my grandchild!" "Halloo, Yellow-Hat! You must taste this fish." "What is its name?" "Pahgoo." "All right, I will taste it. It is good. Where did you get it?" "In a lake." "I never saw that before. I will go along with you and see it," and Yellow-Hat went to the boy's home. He looked around. "Where did you get this chicken, this buffalo, this calf? What kind of an animal is that?" "That is a pig." He saw the jackass too. "Where did you get all these animals?" he asked. "Oh, I got them." One night he stayed at the house, and then went to see the fish. They camped at the lake, twisted horse-hair and went fishing. "Now, watch me!" the boy said, and Yellow-Hat watched the boy pull out a fish. "Let me try it!" said Yellow-Hat. He threw in, arid a fish bit, but he pulled so hard that the hook broke. "That is not right." said the boy. "You pulled too hard. Pull slowly." The next time Yellow-Hat pulled slowly. Then the hook pulled out, and the fish escaped. "You pulled too slowly. Pull faster. Watch me!" "All right, I'll do it." This time he pulled the fish up into the air and tried to seize it. "Why did you do that?" the boy asked. "Let him fall on the ground." "I was afraid he would run into the lake again." They caught some more, and cooked and ate them. "Well, I think I will get a big grasshopper and catch a big fish," said Yellow-Hat, and he tied several lines together to catch a fish in deep water. Then he threw it far out, and a big fish caught it. Yellow-Hat pulled hard, but the fish would not budge, and the line broke. "That must be a big fish," he said. "I cannot lift him. I thought there might be a big one over there." Then they went home again, and Yellow- Hat said, "Let us twist a big horse-tail, and get a strong line and a big hook!" So they went again. At first they caught litde fish. Then they tied the strong line on a big pole, and put the big hook on it with some meat. They threw it into deep water, and the big fish bit it. Yellow-Hat pulled. Then the fish pulled, and he pulled Yellow-Hat into the water. He blew and let go of the pole. "What's the matter?" said the boy. "Your line is gone way down in the lake." They made another strong line like that, and 57 hammered sticks into the ground. They fastened the line to the sticks and threw it out into the water. The big fish seized it and ran, but could not get away; so they brought a mule, and tied the line to his saddle and led him. But the fish pulled the mule into the lake. The saddle pulled off, and the mule swam back. "Well, let him go!" they said, and went back home. "That fish nearly drowned me," said Yellow-Hat. "What shall I do?" "What is the reason we are all afraid of water now?" said Yellow-Hat one day. "We used to swim in the lake, but now we are afraid! Go down and look around, and if you see the fish, swim out to him." Coyote's boy swam out with his rock knife in his hand, and the big fish jumped at him and swallowed him. He took him down into his stomach. It was very hot in there. Then the boy cut his stomach open with the stone knife. He cut a hole in its side and escaped. The fish thrashed the water and died. It floated on the top of the water, for Coyote's boy had killed it. "You had better swim out and put a rope in its mouth," he said to a young Ute. He swam out with a long rope and tied it in the fish's mouth. All the people pulled it ashore, for it was a very big fish. They skinned it, and packed the meat on mules, brought it home, and ate it. The bones they left behind. 58 |
