The punishment of the stingy : and other Indian stories . this, the Coyote,with all the mud upon him, stood before themand said: Brothers, do not feel sorry because < your sister is lost. I will get her back on just as you always do. Do not thinkabout this. Do not let it trouble you. I willget her back again. After he had spoken thus,he said, Xow I am going to start off on thewar-path, and he left them and went away. He journeyed on alone considering what heshould do, and at length, as he was travellingalong over the prairie, he met a Badger, whosaid to him, Brother, where are yo
The punishment of the stingy : and other Indian stories . this, the Coyote,with all the mud upon him, stood before themand said: Brothers, do not feel sorry because < your sister is lost. I will get her back on just as you always do. Do not thinkabout this. Do not let it trouble you. I willget her back again. After he had spoken thus,he said, Xow I am going to start off on thewar-path, and he left them and went away. He journeyed on alone considering what heshould do, and at length, as he was travellingalong over the prairie, he met a Badger, whosaid to him, Brother, where are you going The Coyote said: I am going on the war-path against my enemies. Will you join niyparty. The Badger said, Yes, I will joinvou. Thev went on. After thev had sone a t «. c O long way, they saw a Swift Hawk sitting onthe limb of a tree bv a ravine. He asked them • where they were going, and they told him, andasked him if he would go with them. He saidhe would go. After a time they met a KitFox, and asked him to join them, and he did 54 o v. CC rC. THE MPUBLIf A«T»R,TILDEN FOL c The Girl Who Was the Ring so. Then they met a Jack Rabbit, who saidhe would go with them. They went on, and atlength they met a Blackbird, and asked him tojoin them. He said: Let it be so. I willgo. Soon after they had all got together theystopped and sat down, and the Coyote told themhow the girl had been lost, and said that heintended to try to get her back. Then theytalked, and the Coyote told them the plan thathe—the leader—had made. The others lis-tened, and said that they would do whateverhe told them to do. They were all glad to helpto recover the girl. Then they all stood up and made ready tostart, and the Coyote said to the Blackbird, Friend, you stay here until the time the Blackbird remained there where theyhad been talking, and the others went on. Af-ter they had gone some distance farther, theCoyote told the Hawk to stop and wait did so. The others went on a lo
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