Narrated by Andrew Peynetsa on January 20, 1965, immediately after
Walter Sanchez did "The Girl Who Took Care of the Turkeys." The
performance took four minutes; Andrew learned this story from a man
who had a reputation for telling only very short stories.

Coyote: Joseph Peynetsa commented, "These Coyote stories make it
sound like he's an outcast and nobody thinks too much of him. So he's
the eater of any kind of food, like bugs, roots, berries."

Blackbirds: these are Brewer's blackbirds.

Junco shirt: Old Lady Junco is an Oregon junco, and her "shirt" is the
hood-like area of dark gray or black that covers the head, neck, and part
of the breast of this species.

Prairie wolf: at this point Andrew uses sani, an esoteric term for coyote,
rather than suski, the ordinary term; therefore I have used the less
common of the two English terms for this animal.

The ending: asked whether this story teaches a lesson, Joseph said, "It just
teaches how the coyote is being very foolish. It doesn't teach anything
like a human being might do."

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