Native Coyote Tug Of War

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Mocked by a buffalo and threatened by a great fish, the small Coyote challenges each to a tug-of-war with a long rope, slyly tying the two ends to the buffalo and the fish on opposite sides of a hill so that, hidden between, he seems to match them both. The two haul against each other to exhaustion while Coyote rests. Moral: set the strong against the strong, and the weak need not strain at all. — Native American (Coyote tale)