Author: Katharine Berry Judson (1912)
This story was mainly about outsmarting and listening to directions.
There was a flood and a woman was walking through the water. She was carrying a basket of tortillas above her head. As she was walking, a coyote that was in a tree was watching her. He asked her to come close and give her the tortillas or he would shoot her with a bow.
Scared that she was going to be shot, she approached the tree. When she was close to the tree she told coyote to come down and get the tortillas. The coyote saw that the woman was only ankle deep in the water, not knowing that she was standing on a tree stump, so he decided to come down from the tree.
The water washed the coyote away. Upon the waters going down, the coyote came across an elder brother that told him not to touch the black bug and not to eat the mesquite beans. Coyote failed to listen and ate both. The bug and beans swelled and killed the coyote.
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