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64] SYNOPSES 2.30-2.40
ravenous coyote becomes burdensome. Man releases his dogs to
chase coyote away. "The way of the world is to repay good with
evil." 12:4-7; 14:24-27; 18:191-194.
2.30 (N) Rabbit sets fire to a canebrake, causing alligator to be
scorched. Alligator later offers to ferry rabbit across a bayou.
Alligator sinks progressively lower in the water; rabbit is forced
to perch on his jaws. 14: 135-144.
2.31 (Kiowa-Apache) Beaver, sleeping on a creek bank, is carried far
from the water by coyote prankster. Later beaver magically causes
a flood to engulf coyote. 22:57-59 (two versions).
2.32 Heron asks coyote to dinner; serves fishes in a long-necked bottle.
25:8-9.
2.33 (Kiowa-Apache) Coyote and beavers play a game in which the
animals bet their hides. When coyote loses, beavers furnish him
a new hide. 22:59-60.
2.34 (Kiowa-Apache) Coyote scoffs when quail observes that the
quail's name is "scare-the-people," but is frightened when quail
suddenly takes flight (abrupt whirring sound). 22:61-62.
2.35 (Kiowa-Apache) While visiting in a man's teepee, coyote steals
his medicine bundle. Coyote flees but finds himself returned to the
man's teepee in the morning. Man tells him that the bundle is the
sun; he will never succeed in stealing it. 22: 73-74.
2.36 (M) Dove calls a rancher's dogs to pursue coyote (cf. 2.44).
Coyote escapes into a cave, where he addresses the parts of his
body, asking of their contribution to the escape. Tail says that it
showed dogs the way. Coyote orders tail out of the cave as a
betrayer. Coyote thus backs out himself, is caught by dogs.
14:8-17.
2.37 (M) Rabbit is hypnotized by rattlesnake's gaze. Roadrunner saves
rabbit by placing a thorn between snake's open jaws. 14: 34-35.
2.38 (M) When his ox refuses to work, a farmer consults Solomon. On
Solomon's advice he mentions a butcher within his horse's hearing.
Horse reports to ox; ox resumes work. 18:190-191; 25:240-241
(Negro version involving a mule).
2.39 (M) Lion calls the animals together to settle a dispute over
which animal's nose stinks the worst. After disaster meets those
animals who cast a vote, fox says that he has a bad cold and cannot
smell. 14: 27-32.
2.4o (N) During a drouth, the animals assemble to dig a spring. Deer
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