Identifier: punishmentofstin00grin (find matches)
Title: The punishment of the stingy : and other Indian stories
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Grinnell, George Bird, 1849-1938
Subjects: Indians of North America
Publisher: New York : Harper
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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can shoot clear through a Buffalo. I haveplenty of arrows, and I need only use a singleone for each Buffalo. Come on, I want toswing you just a little, so that but few Buffalowill come. So he coaxed the girl, but stillshe refused. After he had begged her for a long time,she agreed to let him swing her a little, andgot in the swing. He began to swing her, atfirst gently, but all at once he pushed hervery hard, and kept doing this until she swunghigh. She screamed and cried, and tried to getoff the swing, but it was now too late. Allaround—from all sides—the Buffalo were com-ing in great crowds. The Coyote had madeready his arrows, and was running aroundthe girl, trying to kill the Buffalo andkeep them off, but they crowded upon him—so many that he could do nothing—and at lasthe got frightened and ran into the lodge. TheBuffalo were now just all over the groundabout the lodge, and suddenly one of the youngBulls, the leader of a big band, as he passed 52 w MI-H HO O o K B ta t-1o
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THE h PUBLIC A8TOR,TILDEN FOUN o The Girl Who Was the Ring under the swing, threw up his head, and thegirl disappeared, but the Coyote, peeping outof the lodge door, saw on the horn of this Bulla ring, and then he knew that this ring was thegirl. Then the Bull ran away fast, and all theBuffalo ran after him. When the Buffalo had gone, the Coyote cameout of the lodge and saw that the girl was notthere. He did not know what to do. He wasfrightened. Pretty soon he heard the girlsbrothers coming. They had seen the dust, andknew that some one was swinging their sister,and that the Buffalo had come. They hurriedback, running fast, and when they reached thelodge they found the Coyote just dragging him-self out of a mud-hole. He crawled out, cry-ing, and pretended that the Buffalo had runover him and trampled him. His bow and ar-rows were in the mud. He told the brothershis story and said that he had tried hard tosave the girl, but that he had not known thatso many Buffalo would come. He said

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