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33. THE Sun’ 
Coyote went along with Chicken Hawk. Coyote said: | ‘‘Let us go 
there far away, where the people are making | the sun.’’ Coyote 
said first: “ll be | the sun.” (Chicken Hawk said:) “I first.’’ || 
Coyote said: ‘‘No.”” Then they started. They went along. Chicken 5 
Hawk said: | “You shall listen to me.”? Coyote said: | ‘‘What is 
it?”? Chicken Hawk said: “It is where we are going.” | Coyote 
said: “ What is it?”’ (Chicken Hawk said:) ‘‘Then we’ll stay | over 
there. There will.be grease. When people pass, || they bite off a 10 
piece.”’ They arrived there. Chicken Hawk bit off a piece. | ‘‘ Now 
you,” said Chicken Hawk. Then Chicken Hawk passed. | Then Coy- 
ote took it. The grease fell down. | Coyote went rolling along. 
Then | Coyote started. He went quickly. Chicken Hawk overtook 
him. || Chicken Hawk said: ‘Listen to me, what I tell you.”’? Then | 15 
he did not speak. They arrived there. Then in the evening Coy- 
ote said: | ‘1 first.” Chicken Hawk said: “No.” Then ! they 
started early. After a little while it was evening. Coyote arrived. | 
The people said: ‘‘Coyote is bad.’ || After a little while Chicken 20 
Hawk said: ‘‘ Now I, now I myself shall | start.””. Thusspoke Chicken 
Hawk. Then the sun rose. | Chicken Hawk was a good sun. Coy- 
ote was angry. He thought | he would shoot Chicken Hawk. Coy- 
ote’s arrow burned. | His arrow and his bow were all burned. He 
put it down. || The earth was all burned. He started running, and 25 
everything was on fire. | He did not know what todo. He came toa 
trail | and lay down there. The trail did not burn. | Then Coyote 
said: ‘I am glad that I am not dead.” | Enough. | 
34. Fox AND SKUNK? 
Skunk was going along. There was Fox. He carried a | pot.‘ 30 
He wanted to sit down. He put down his pot. He went along. | 
(Skunk) said: ‘‘ There is nothing I am afraid of.’’ He said: | ‘‘ The 
oniy thing I am afraid of is whistling.” Then | he sat down. Fox 
arose. There was the sound of whistling. || Skunk ran away. Fox 35 
broke the pot. | Fox started. Skunk arrived. | He saw that his pot 
was broken. He cried. He thought | he would kill Fox. Then 
Skunk started. Hesaw | ariver. He was going to drink. He saw 
Fox inside || the water. Then he squirted his fluid at him. He be- 40 
came tired. . He lay down and | looked up. He saw Fox, being 
above. Then | he turned around. He thought he would squirt his 
fluid at him, but Fox shot him. | Enough. | 
1 See pp. 66, 116. 2 See p. 110. 3 See pp. 23, 40. 
4 That is, Fox was in the pot that Skunk was carrying. 
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