must say, '_Puff!_'"

So he went to sleep. Now Coyote came along, very cautiously. He seized
Big Turtle, pulled one of the legs out of the fire, and sat there,
biting off the meat. When he had eaten all the meat on all the legs,
he pushed the bones back just as they had been before, arranged the
fire over them, and left after putting everything just as he had found
it.

At length Ictinike awoke. He pushed into the ashes to find Big Turtle,
took hold of a leg, and pulled it out. Only that leg came out.
"Pshaw!" said he. Then he tried another leg, with a like result, and
still another, but only the bones appeared. When he had pulled out the
fourth leg, he was astonished. All at once he exclaimed, "Surprising!
I had already eaten the Turtle, but I had forgotten it."

ICTINIKE AND THE CREATORS

_Omaha_

Ictinike married and dwelt in a lodge. One day he said to his wife,
"Hand me that tobacco pouch. I must go visit your grandfather,
Beaver." So he departed.

As he was entering Beaver's lodge, Beaver said, "Ho, pass around to
one side." And they seated Ictinike on a pillow. Beaver's wife said,
"We have been without food. How can we give your grandfather anything
to eat?" Now Beaver had four young ones.

The youngest Beaver said, "Father, let me serve for food." So the
youngest Beaver served for food. Beaver's wife therefore gave some of
the meat to Ictinike, who ate it. But before letting him eat it,
Beaver said to him, "Be careful lest you break even a single bone by
biting! Do not break a bone!" Yet Ictinike broke one of the toe bones.

After the meal, Beaver gathered the bones, put them in a skin, and
plunged them beneath the water. In a moment the youngest Beaver came
up from the water, alive again.

When the father said, "Is all right?" the son said, "Father, he broke
one of my toes by biting." Therefore, from that time, every beaver has
had one little toe (the next to the little one), which has seemingly
been split by biting.

When Ictinike was about to go home, he pretended he had forgotten
about his tobacco pouch, which he left behind. So Beaver said to one
of the children, "Take that to him. Do not go near him, but throw it
to him when you are at a great distance from him, as he is always very
talkative."

Then the child took the tobacco pouch and started after Ictinike.
After getting in sight of the latter, Little Beaver was about to throw
the pouch, when standing at a great distance; but Icti