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So that night they had a dance, and they varied the dancing a 

 great deal in order to distract her thinking by constant change. She 

 became happy, but just for a little while. 



Toward morning, when they were going to perform the last dance, 

 they saw that they stiU had not succeeded in their intentions. The 

 Crane was standing at the door, watching them (the Crane is a funny 

 bird, with his thin body and long legs and biU) . They called him in to 

 lead the dance because they knew that he was a very funny dance 

 leader. 



''Yu: 1 Yu: !" the Crane called, and the dance began, with the 

 Crane leading it. The woman looked at the Crane and became very 

 much interested in him. 



When the Crane came to the place in the dance where he was sup- 

 posed to bow down and say: '^Tsiwi:na tsige:sv:i tsin(i)gadhv:neh6:i 

 ('what I did [habituallyl when I was a young man')," he bowed down, 

 and standing with his hindquarters toward the woman, he defecated. 



This made everybody, and especially the sad mother, laugh so much 

 that she kept thinking of it all the time, and every time she had to eat 

 again, she thought of it, and in this way she was cured. 



ADVENTURES OF THE TRICKSTER RABBIT 



1.— THE RABBIT DUPES THE FOX* 



The Fox was a great fisher. Once, when he had caught a great 

 many fish, he met the Rabbit. The Rabbit could not fish. 



He asked the Fox, "Would you let me have some fish?" 



But the Fox said, "No!" 



The Rabbit thought: "How can I get them?" 



So he walked along with the Fox for some distance, and then left 

 him. But he ran^back by some roundabout way until he came back 

 to the trail in front of the Fox, and there lay down as dead. 



When the Fox passed, he thought: "Well! A dead rabbit!" But 

 he did not care because he had so many fish. 



As soon as the Fox was gone, the Rabbit got up, and again by 

 some roundabout way ran to a spot that the Fox was to pass. There 

 again he lay down, pretending to be dead. 



As he passed by, the Fox thought: "Well! Another dead rabbit!" 

 But since he was carrying so many fish, he did not want to bother with 

 a rabbit. 



When he was gone, the Rabbit jumped up, and once more he ran by 

 a roundabout way to a place which the Fox was to pass, and as before, 

 he pretended to be dead. 



