1852 Apprentice
Coyote Makes Women Valuable
A long time ago, they say, Coyote saw a pretty woman. Coyote’s not bashful like those boys over there. He’s always wanting to have intercourse with women. They don’t even have to be pretty, but this one was.
He smiled at her, and he joked with her, and he walked with her in the moonlight that shone through the branches of the cottonwoods by the river. He was about to put his penis inside her when he saw rows of sharp teeth in her vagina. So instead of his penis he poked a stick in there. Those teeth bit that stick in two with a loud crunch, and they gnawed the pieces into tiny little splinters.
So then Coyote put a rock in and broke the teeth right off. Because he did that, the woman’s vagina became like it is today, without teeth.
The woman was happy about it. She said, “From now on men will desire me, and I’ll be worth many horses and other good things.”
That’s why these days men give horses and blankets and saddles and other valuable gifts to a woman’s family when they want to marry her.
I’m talking about fruit and flowers and other good things.