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feet. When the Raccoon was through, he said, "Let me stretch 

 myself, and I will soon be ready.." He went down to the creek and 

 climbed a big tree, and the Wolf said, "Come, brother." The Rac- 

 coon said, "I am sleeping; I will come later." The Wolf said, "I 

 will talk to white people." He went off and got a stick and threw 

 it at the Raccoon, but. he could not hit him. So he went and made a 

 hatchet of mud, but it failed to cut the tree. The Raccoon went to 

 sleep in the fork of the tree. The Wolf watched him until night. 

 Then he went off to sleep by the tree, while the Raccoon got down 

 and went off. When the Wolf woke up, the Raccoon was gone. 

 The Wolf trailed him, but the Raccoon went up another tree. 1 



10. — The Raccoon and the Wolf. 



The Wolf and the Raccoon met one day, and the Wolf said 

 to the Raccoon, "Hello, friend- How are you?" And the Raccoon 

 said, "I am air right. How are you?" The Wolf said, "I am alj 

 right. How can we have some fun?" The Raccoon said, "I do not 

 know." The Wolf said, "Let us have connection with one another. 

 Let me have connection with you first." But the Raccoon said, "I 

 ought to have connection first." Finally, the Raccoon got on top 

 and went after him, and the Wolf reached back and touched the 

 Raccoon's rump, and sa;id, "It will soon be my turn." The Rac- 

 coon got off and climbed a tree. The Wolf said, "Come down, 

 friend." But the Raccoon never looked at him. The Wolf stayed 

 around the tree, and every once in a while he would say, "Come 

 down, for I was to have connection with you." So after a while the 

 Wolf got mad, and said, "You do not know I talk to white men." 

 So he made a hatchet out of mud and began cutting the tree down 

 but broke his hatchet. The Wolf stayed around the tree, and said, 

 "I will stay until you come down." The Raccoon said, "I will 

 never come do^n." The Wolf stayed around the tree all day. When 

 it came night he stayed right at the foot of the tree, but when mid- 

 night came he went to sleep, and the Raccoon got down and went 

 off. 



Next morning, the Wolf got up and looked up in the tree, and 

 missed the Raccoon, and he said to himself, "I ought not to have 

 gone to sleep." So he trailed the Raccoon, but could not catch him. 

 So at last he gave up the chase, and said to himself, "I will kill every 

 Raccoon I see from now on." 



1 Also found among the Pawnee and Arikara. 



