ill put his head close to his door and visit
with the Snake, so that they had a very good visit. But that night was
pretty cold, and after while the Coyote was so cold he got cross and
wished the Snake would go home.

"Well, by and by, the Snake said he must go home now, so he said
goodnight and invited the Coyote to come over to his house the next
night.

"The Coyote said he would be sure to come over, then he went into his
house and sat by the fire and got warm and made plans how he would get
even with that big Water Plume Snake.

"Well, next day he went and gathered a lot of cedar bark and some corn
husks and some pine gum, and he made himself a great long tail and put
lots of wool and some of his hair on the outside, so that it was a very
big tail and long, too.

"So when evening came, he waited for it to get dark, then he started for
the kiva of the big Snake.

"When he got there his friend was waiting and had a nice fire and
received him with good welcome and told him to come right in and get
warm.

"Now the Water Plume Snake was sure surprised when the Coyote got in and
kept going round and round, pulling his long tail after him, and being
wise he saw just what was going on, and now he knows the Coyote is
making fun of him. So he just says nothing and makes room enough for the
Coyote by going outdoors himself.

"So the Snake just put his head in and was very nice and polite and they
have a good visit. But the Snake got very cold and still the Coyote will
not go home and the Snake is nearly freezing.

"At last the Coyote says he have to go and the Snake is pretty cold and
pretty mad, too. So he says good night to the Coyote and crawls right
down into his house quick as the Coyote's body is out, and when he sees
all that big tail rolling out he just holds the end of it over the
fireplace and gets it burning.

"But the Coyote is very pleased with himself and he don't look back but
just goes right along. After a while he notices a fire behind him and
turns around and sees the grass is burning way back there. So he says to
himself, 'Well I better not go into my house for the Hopi have set fire
to the grass to drive me away, and I'll just go on, so they won't find
me at home.'

"But soon the fire got going fast in that cedar bark and before he can
get that tail untied he is burned so bad that he just keeps running till
he gets to Bayupa (Little Colorado River). There was a great flood going
down the river