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be killed with this knife here," which the Cooyoko had. "O my!" 

 the Fox said. "Yes," the Cooyoko said, "let us have a contest." 

 "All right," the Fox said, "be it so. You sing first." So the 

 Cooyoko sang the following little song: 



To — ishkakolitai to — r ishkakolitai 



Aaaha, iiihi — ' 



and then said to the Fox: "Now, you sing, too," whereupon the Fox 

 sang the following song: 

 Ishka! Ishka! 



Hereupon the C6oyoko repeated his song. The sun by this time 

 was just about to loom up. "Now you sing again," he said to the 

 Fox, whereupon the latter repeated his song, and when he was sing- 

 ing, the sun loomed upon the horizon. So he had won the contest. 

 "Alas!" the Cdoyoko said, "well now, I have wanted it this way and 

 you have beaten me. Be it so then. " The knife was lying by their 

 side, so the Fox took it, approached the C6oyoko, and cut the latter 's 

 throat. And so the latter died over a bet. 



87. THE LITTLE GRAY MICE AND THE LITTLE BROWN MICE.^ 



A long time ago the Little Gray Mice (Povdyamu; lived at Tum- 

 ble Down Bluflf (Tukwishahpukpu), south-east of the village, and the 

 Little Brown Mice (Pavavumshamu) lived at Chir6ve, west of the 

 village, far down the mesa. The two kinds of mice were on friendly 

 terms at that time. During the night they would come to the vil- 

 lage and whenever one would find hidden away in jars or packed 

 away in the rooms, com, etc., it would invite the others and then 

 they would come and carry away the food to their holes. This they 

 did a long time. The two kinds of mice would often visit each other 

 and dance together. They would usually sing the following song, 

 both parties it seems generally using the same words: 



Talawyayna talawyaynaaa 

 It begins to dawn, it begins to dawn. 

 Ahaha, ihihi. Talawyayna, talawyaynana, 

 Yaoohoo, oohia, ahaha ihihi. 



One time one of the Gray Mice had found something very good to 

 eat, perhaps peaches, and ran over to the Brown Mice, saying: "I 

 have found some good food and I have already made a hole in the 

 cover so that we can get at it. " Hereupon they all came from both 



* The words in both of the songs are obsolete and no longer understood. 

 ' Told by Qoyiwaima (Oralbi). 



