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294 (the Bear) has eaten his wife's fat. Coyote runs away, pursued by the Bear. Coyote falls, and his hands strike a buffalo horn, with which he* scares away the Grizzly Bear.

8. Coyote and Grizzly Bear ^ (No. 57). — Coyote sees Grizzly Bear feeding, and calls him names.^ Grizzly Bear pursues him. While they are running, Coyote jumps over the Bear. The Bear chases him around a stone. Coyote falls down and falls on the horns of a buffalo, which stick on his hands. Coyote rises, and with the horns frightens away the Bear. The Bear swims the river, and is hit with the horns.

9. Coyote and Locust ^ (No. 3). — Locust is carrying his leg. Coyote envies him, and breaks his own leg too. The two make friends. Coyote goes ahead, and is kicked by Locust, who kills him. Vhen Magpie picks at Coyote's eyes,* Coyote revives. He slaps himself, and the dung tells him ^ that he will become a knife attached to Coyote's foot. Locust goes ahead, and Coyote kills him.

10. Coyote and Grizzly Bear (No. 4). — Coyote makes fun of Grizzly Bear's dung. In order to catch Coyote, the Bear first creates service berries, then wild cherries, which Coyote does not eat. Then he creates rose hips; when Coyote is eating these, Grizzly Bear catches him, together with the bushes. Coyote pleads that he did not offend Grizzly Bear. When Grizzly Bear tries to hit him, Coyote runs away. He calls for the help of his manitous. One of these becomes a river; another, a log which lies across the river and bobs up and down; a third one becomes a tent. Coyote is told to come out of the tent as soon as the Grizzly Bear apptears, and Jbo abuse him. When the Bear reaches the river, he tries to cross on the bobbing log. Coyote holds the log, but lets go of it while the Bear is crossing over it. The Grizzly Bear falls off and is drowned.^

11. Coyote goes visiting ^ (No. 5). — Coyote's wife is Dog. Coyote sends his children to visit their uncles. They go to Kingfisher, who stretches his hand back to get his sharp horn. Kingfisher sends his two children to bring two switches. He ties his hair over his forehead, and jumps from the top of the tent into the water through a hole in the ice. He comes back carrying two switches filled with fish. The following day Dog sends her children to visit their uncle Moose. Moose cuts off his wife's nose, throws ashes on the cut, which heals up at once. He sends his children to get roots, which are rolled in the ashes of the wife and become guts. He slaps himself, and camas appears. On the following day Coyote tries in vain to imitate him.

1 Assiniboin (Lowie PaAM 4:121). Blackfoot (Wissler PaAM 2:32; Uhlenbeck VKAWA 12:63). Cree (Russell, Expl. in Far North 209). Shoshonl (Lowie PaAM 2:277; Lowie-St. Clair JAFL 22:266). 3 Shuswap (Teit JE 2:654). Ute (RBAE 1:54), etc. Nez Perc6 (Spinden JAFL 21:23). Perhaps Shuswap (Teit JE 2:655). 4 Nez Percé (MAFLS 11; Mayer-Farrand 151; Spinden 180). 5 Chilcotin (Farrand JE 2:16). Chinook (Boas BBAE 20:92). Flathead (Wilson, Trans. Ethn. Soc. of London, 1866, 4:312). Kaska (Teit JAFL 30:444). Kathlamet (Boas BBAE 26:45). Lillooet (Teit JAFL ?5:308, 317). Nez Perc6 (Mayer-Farrand MAFLS 11:141). Okanagon (Teit MAFLS 11:73-75). Shoshoni (Lowie PaAM 2:237, 241, 254). Shuswap (Teit JE 2:635). Tahltan (Teit MS). Takelma (Sapir UPenn 2:65, 83). Thompson (Teit MAFLS 6:30, 60; MAFLS 11:2; JE 8:234). 6. See Waterman JAFL 27:43, "Crane Bridge." 7 See discussion in Boas RBAE 31:694; also Nez Perc6 (MAFLS 11: Mayer-Farrand 164; Spinden, 181); Osage (Dorsey FM 7:13, 15); Shoshoni (Lowie-St. Clair JAFL 22:266); Thompson (Teit MAFLS 11:6); Zvnl C'Edward S. Handy JAFL 31). A number of Califomism tales of unsuccessful imitation may pet^va;^ be dist^iitly related to the tale to the bungling host See Wishosk (Kroeber J A F L 18:102); Yana (Sapir U Cal 9:211).