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a charm (medicine), a little red feather, and with it shot the one that 

 was given power by the offspring in the heart, and killed him. 



To find out who killed the man to whom he had given the power, 

 the eagle flew up in the air and collided with the body of the dead 

 man, and the red feather, which was still sticking in his heart, came 

 out. The offspring then knew that the man was killed by the one to 

 whom the Morning Star had given power. 



The body of the dead man and the offspring prepared for war upon 

 the Morning Star and they made a big storm with thunder and light- 

 ning, which worried the Morning Star considerably ; and it came to 

 Old Man Coyote and asked him for advice. Old Man Coyote said, 

 "Those people, Thunder and Bald-Head Eagle, are mean people when 

 started, so you had better get out of the way, or change the existence of 

 the two men'' ; which the Morning Star did. 



12. — Old Man Coyote, the Man and Cow Buffalo and Cow Elk. 



Old Man Coyote met one day a man carrying a bow and a quiver of 

 arrows, roaming all over the world. Old Man Coyote said to him, 

 "Come here, and I will show you something you will like." He took 

 the man to the buffalo cow, stuck fast in the mud, and Old Man Coyote 

 told him to have connection with this buffalo, which the man did. 

 Afterwards, Old Man Coyote took the man to another place where a 

 cow elk was mired, and the man was told to do as he had done with 

 the buffalo cow, which he did, and the Old Man Coyote laughed at 

 him. In the course of several weeks the buffalo cow and elk cow each 

 gave birth to a boy. 



Shortly after his meeting with Old Man Coyote, the wandering man 

 returned to his people. One day he was playing a game of ring and 

 arrows. While playing, he was approached by a little boy with a short 

 neck and curly hair, and who had on a buffalo calf robe. The little 

 boy said to him, "Father, if you win anything, give me some." The 

 man looked about him and said, "I will." Shortly afterward another 

 little boy, with lighter hair and longer neck, approached and asked 

 him the same question. When the man had finished playing he called 

 the two boys to him and said, "How is it you call me father ?" Each 

 of the boys said, "Don't you remember the time when our mothers were 

 stuck in the mud ?" The man said he did. He told each of the boys 

 to go and bring his mother to him, which they did, but in the forms 

 of women. 



After looking carefully at each, the man did not care for the elk 



