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and on his way home with it, he again met Old Man Coyote, who asked, 

 "Did you catch the red fox?" "Of course I did," replied the boy. 

 "Let me see it," said Old Man Coyote. When the boy showed it to 

 him he took it, and off he ran. 



The boy, on reaching home, told his grandmother what Old Man 

 Coyote had done, and said to her, "Go and get a feather from the red 

 bird, and some hair from the fox and bring them to me." The grand- 

 mother found Old Man Coyote, and as she was also cute and sly and 

 praised the Old Man Coyote for getting the bird and the fox, Old Man 

 Coyote became pleased with the flattery, and showed the bird and fox 

 to the grandmother, who (unseen by Old Man Coyote) plucked a 

 feather from the bird and some hair from the fox, and took them home 

 to her grandson, who told her to tie them together and put them behind 

 the tipi curtain until it was time to show the chief the red bird and the 

 red fox. 



The boy told his grandmother to go and tell the chief that he was 

 coming to claim his daughter. The grandmother took meat to the 

 chief's tipi and told the chief that her grandchild had killed the red 

 bird and the red fox and wanted to marry his daughter. At that time 

 the camp was out of meat and the meat the grandmother brought 

 greatly satisfied him, and he consented to the marriage. 



The grandmother told the chief that everything was in readiness 

 for the wedding, and that her grandson would come four times and 

 that he must have his daughter catch him one of the times he came, 

 and have it announced that no one was to look out of their tipis when 

 he came. They heard the dogs barking and the grandmother said, "He 

 is coming now, and just then a little buffalo calf came in bellowing 

 at the daughter and acting as though he would butt her. She lost 

 courage, fell back and failed to catch her lover, the buffalo calf, which 

 ran out of the tipi. 



Another day the grandmother took pemmican and spare ribs of 

 buffalo and told the chief to tell his daughter to catch her intended 

 husband when he came the next time, which was in the evening, and 

 this time he came as a yearling buffalo bull, chasing the dogs and 

 causing an uproar as he came along. He broke the fastening pins of 

 the tipi as he entered. The daughter was sitting awaiting his arrival to 

 seize him, but again she lost courage and fell back and again the lover 

 ran out. The third time he came, he was a two year old bull, and had 

 all the appearances of a dangerous bull. He entered the tipi, breaking 

 the flaps and fastening pins and the daughter stood up to catch him 

 as he was coming towards her as if to butt her. This time she shut 



