Giving Birth to Thunder, Sleeping with His Daughter by Barry Lopez

Author:Barry Lopez [Lopez, Barry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-4804-0920-0
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2013-05-13T20:37:00+00:00

Coyote and Never Grows Bigger

ONE TIME COYOTE MET a very small snake called Never Grows Bigger.

“What a ridiculous thing you are,” said Coyote. “Who would ever want to be as small as you are? Why are you this small anyway? You ought to be big like me. You can’t do anything if you’re that small. There must be something wrong with you.”

The snake didn’t say anything.

“Let me see your teeth,” said Coyote.

The snake opened his mouth. Then Coyote opened his mouth and pointed at his teeth. “See? Look at these teeth of mine. What would happen if we bit each other? Your teeth are too small to hurt anyone, but I could bite you in half. Let’s bite each other and you’ll see what I mean.”

So they bit each other and then Coyote said, “Let’s move back a little and call out to each other.” Coyote knew that he could tell by the way the snake called out how quickly he was dying. The snake gave a cry and then Coyote called out. Each time the snake called his voice was weaker. Coyote went off a little ways, lay down, and got ready to take a nap. Coyote was still calling out but he could hardly hear the snake. “It’s no good to be that small,” Coyote thought. “Now he knows.”

Soon Coyote noticed that the place where the snake had bitten him was beginning to swell up. The swelling got bad very quickly and Coyote got very weak. He could hardly call out now and he was beginning to feel very dizzy and ill.

By this time the snake’s wound had begun to heal. His voice got stronger. Coyote’s calls grew weaker and weaker until finally there was no sound out of him anymore. Never Grows Bigger went over to where Coyote was laying down and saw he was dead. “This animal never learns,” said Never Grows Bigger. He went away and left Coyote out there on the prairie all blown up like a buffalo bladder from that bite.

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