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him. The turtle said that his name was Medicine Turtle. The coyote said, " Well, turtle, we have had a good meeting as friends, and we must remember our meeting." When they were about to leave each other, the coyote thought he could kill the turtle. So he went to kiss him, and as he kissed him, he tried to bite him. But the turtle bit him, and the coyote ran off.

XXXIII.

A hunter had killed a buffalo. A crow came flying to where he was butchering. When the man saw him, the crow said : " I am very hungry, and I have never eaten buffalo's eyes. I know very much about troubles of the eyes. Will you let me eat the buffalo's eyes, and as much meat as I wish ? " The man said to the crow : " I will let you have all the meat you wish, and I will kill more buf- falo for you, so that you can eat their eyes." The crow said : " I will go back after my family, and bring my wife and my young crows. And I will instruct you in my power concerning the eyes, so that you will have remedy if any one has trouble in his eyes." The man thought it would be good to learn this power, for his wife was blind on one eye, and the other was very weak. The crow came back with his family to where the man was cutting meat, and they ate. Then the crow and his wife proceeded to teach the man about the eyes. They told him to lie on his back, and close his eyes tight. Then both of them sat on his breast, and the crow began to sing. The medicine- song was : " I have great knowledge of troubles of the eyes." The man believed firmly in what the crow had said to him ; but from the crow's teaching he at once lost both his eyes. He tried to go home, but was lost. At last he fell down a steep and deep place. He howled and cried out that he was in great trouble. So now there was only one eye in his family.

A. L. Kroeber.

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