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doing this to me! You can not kill me.”. | The Bull said: “Well, V'll 
let you go.”’ | Coyote was told: ‘‘Now, come!”’ Then Coyote went 
near him. | 
Coyote said: ‘I'll fill my pipe. || We will smoke.”’” The Bull said: 
“Ttis well. Let us | smoke. What shall we smoke?’ Coyote said: | 
“Tet us smoke block tobacco.’’ The Bull said: | “I don’t smoke 
block tobacco.”’ Coyote said: | ‘What do you smoke ?’’—‘‘T smoke 
leaf tobacco.” || Coyote said: ‘It is well. | Let us smoke it. I have 
some.’ Then he | filled his pipe. Then they smoked. Coyote said: 
“Tt will be this way | in later times, when there will be many people. 
When they are angry at one another, | they will smoke to make their 
hearts (feel) good.” 
The Bull said: || ‘It is well. Tl tell you what happened to me. | 
On this road, at the same place where my head lay, | my wife was 
taken away from me. I had two wives. When I went for my 
wives, | I came with them to this place. Then people came here, 
and | I was killed.” Coyote said: “Now you will be || my friend. 
We shall get back your wives.” Coyote looked | at the horns of his 
friend. The points were broken off. He took | his knife and sharp- 
ened them. Their points were sharpened again. 
He said to him: | ‘‘Now let us go.’ Then the two friends went 
along. | They saw tents, and Coyote said to his friend: || ‘‘I’ll stay 
here. Go on, go and get your wives back.’’ | Then the Bull went to 
get back his wives. He took them back. | They made war on him. 
The Bull went back to where Coyote was staying. | Then Coyote 
arose. He saw his friend coming. | Then Coyote attacked the 
people. || They saw there were two—the Bull and Coyote. They 
were afraid of them, and | they left them. Then the friends went 
along. They were four— | twomen and two women. They stopped 
there. The Bull spoke, | and said to Coyote: ‘Look at these my 
two wives! | Which one do you want to take? She shall be your 
wife.” || Coyote looked at her. He thought: “This younger one | 
must have strong bones. The big one must be good. | I think I 
will take her. She must be good.’”’ He said to the Bull: ‘I | take 
this one.’’ They said to each other: ‘‘We will part now.” | They 
shook hands and said good-by. Then they parted. | 
Coyote and his wife went off. He saw a mountain in front. | 
He said to his wife: “That place looks like a valley. Go there. | 
I shall go roundabout.’”’ The Buffalo Cow went on. | Coyote went 
another way. He went quickly. He came back quickly | to the 
place where his wife was going. He arrived and sat down. || After a 
short time the Cow arrived. Coyote thought: | “I will shoot her, 
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