| Show to V THE E BLIND COYOTE MYTH OF THE UTE INDIANS at one time there was a coyote who was blind he could just see a little out of his left eye that was all he too would never believe what pe people ople told him he d doubted 0 everything that anyone said to him but anything he said was all right he would always say no no to anything anybody said mid to him once he went with his wife to hunt buffalo he had bows and arrows after they had traveled some distance he sat down on a rock to rest his wife had two good eyes there are lots of buffalo here she said shoot them he shot several times somewhat at random and succeeded in killing one but as he could not see his wife did not tell him that he had instead she hid it so he would not stumble on oil to it however he thought he had shot a buffalo and said 1 I killed one but his unfaithful wife said you missed it after all the other buffalo had run off the wife feigned sleep and they camped near where he had shot the buffalo then when he was fast asleep she left him and took the meat far off so she could dry it she had left him there to starve for a long time he stayed there in an improvised wl calup as he could not see sec to go anywhere he then in made ade 50 some me medicine from an herb that grew abrew on the rocks near his house this he rubbed on his eyes and soon his eyes were well then in the far distance he saw the smoke of a camp fire to this he went and there he found his wife drying the very meat that he had got with his bow and arrow and when she saw him she dropped dead it never pays to do wrong |
