one of those dents which Coyote could not remove and breathed out storms through its fiery nostrils.
Then Coyote pulled out two other hairs from his body and threw them upon the land. They bunched themselves into a roll and then waggled themselves into two Dogs.
After that Coyote made Grizzly, Cougar, Antelope, Beaver, and all the other animals. He made that day two of every kind of animal that is now on the earth. And everything he said that day still holds as a law. We still have earth on the top of the land and rock underneath, because Coyote threw the rocks into the water first, and then the earth. All of Coyote's laws still hold to-day.
"And if there had n't been any dents, Wantasson, would n't we have the measles and have to drink tansy tea?" A recent siege was fresh in Juanita's memory.
"But what made the dents, Wantasson?" interrupted Antonio. "What made them when Coyote did n't want them?"
"You ask too many questions, young Antonio. Look at the dents in that wheel tire. They came there and I did n't want them. I 've got to heat it again and straighten those out." And not another word could the children win from him that afternoon.
