This time, too, Coyote peeped and changed around the piles of bones.
Again Owl was much surprised to see only mice bones before himself. "Let us try the day-before-the-day-before-yesterday's dinner," he said. "I am sure I have eaten larger game." Coyote consented.
They did this for five times. Each time Coyote shifted around the two piles of bones. Every time Owl was surprised to see mice bones before himself, and asked for another trial.
After the fifth time Coyote said: "You have made believe that you have been eating large animals, while you can show only mice bones. Hereafter you can eat nothing larger than mice. You 've been doing enough killing. I 'm going to kill you now."
Then he walked up to Owl and cut off his head with his stone knife. He took the body and threw it toward the mountains. "You may stay there, but you shall be small all the rest of your days. You may hoot, and scream, and frighten people, but nevermore may you kill them."
Since Coyote made this law, Owl has been small in size. He lives in lonely places. He often frightens people by demanding in a loud screech: "Who are you? Who? Who?" But never since that day has he been able to kill an animal larger than a mouse.
