Boas] KUTENAI TALES 65 
Then I will eat her. I am hungry.” The | Cow arrived. As she 
walked along, Coyote shot her. | He killed her. There she lay. A 
little ways off there was a flat stone. | He sat down on the flat stone. 
He sat there and || began to cry. He cried for his wife whom he had 
killed. 
After a little while | many wolves arrived. They ate at once | 
what he had killed. Coyote thought he would stand up, but he stuck 
(to the stone). | He tried to get up, but he couldn’t get off. | Then 
the wolves ate the Cow. They ate it all. || Nothing was left. Coyote 
just got up. He arose. His backside came off from the stone. | 
Coyote said: ‘‘Let me stick on, | let me stick on!” 
He went there, and there were only bones. | He thought: ‘Well, 
I will break the bones.’’ He piled | the bones together, and he was 
about to break them. He was told: ‘‘Nephew, || I do not allow you 
to break bones.”’ He said: ‘‘That is so.’”’ | He looked, and there was 
Badger. He was told: “Tl break the bones.’ | He was told: ‘You 
shall hold my tail.” | Then he held (Badger’s) tail. Hé was told: 
“Don’t hold on teo tightly, | you will badger my tail.’”’ He did so. 
He did not hold the tail tightly. || Badger Woman took the bladder 
and put | the marrow into it. It was a big, round piece of marrow. 
Coyote was told: | “I shall eat that much,” and (Badger) passed her 
hands close to her mouth. | Coyote also said: ‘Ul eat that much.” 
Then Badger | ran away quickly, carrying the marrow. Coyote 
pursued her. || He ran after her. Badger was eating all the time. 
When she had finished, | she threw back the bladder. Coyote was 
told: | ‘‘I suppose you want that.” Badger went off. Coyote took | 
his bladder. He licked it. It was greasy. | 
Coyote was standing there. There were only the remains of broken 
bones. || He thought: ‘‘I will pile them together. I will pound them 
to pieces.” He | sat down. Coyote began to pound. He was told: 
“Nephew, I won't | allow you to break bones.’”’ Hesaw two women. 
They were | two birds.1. He was told: ‘“‘We will pound it. | Mean- 
while go and get something that you may || use for a spoon. When 
you see that there is a fire, | come back.’’ Coyote started. He took 
a root out of the ground, | pounded it, and dried it. Coyote staid 
there. | Then he saw a large fire. He went back, and | when he gou 
back, nothing was left. He looked up the tree, || and there was one 
of the birds. The other one was on another tree. | One carried the 
grease; the other one, | the chopped bone. He had nothing to eat of 
the game he hed killed. Enough. | 
1 Species unknown. 
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