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“Let us go and play with them!’’ They started. || Coyote was their 
chief. Woodpecker, Flicker, Hawk, | Chicken Hawk, Duck, and 
Bluejay, seven of them, went. | They reached the town. They were 
told: “What do you want?’ | (Coyote) said: ‘“‘We come to play.” 
He was told they would play | at diving. Coyote was told: ‘“ Who || 
will play?”’? Hesaid: “Duck shall be the one.’’ The | people of the 
town said: ‘Our (player) shall be Beaver.’”’ |Some one said: 
“Ready!” Then they went to the shore. | Coyote went there. There 
on shore was a canoe. | He pulled out the calking, and he said to the 
little Duck: “I have taken the calking out of this canoe. || When you 
dive, come up here! Youshall | stick your nose up through the hole.” 
Then the two dived, | and many people watched. Whoever | should 
float dead on the water, he was to lose. Beaver | never lost. There- 
fore he was selected when any one came to play with them. || He 
was never beaten. Then they were watched. | The sun was going 
down. Coyote had said to the little Duck: | ““When (you hear) 
shouting, then Beaver comes up out of the water. | Then you may 
come up, too.” It was almost | sunset. Then at the place where 
Beaver had dived || bubbles came up; and not long after the bubbles 
had come up, | he floated on top of the water. Then there was a 
noise. They were glad | because he had won. Then the little Duck 
dived back. | He knew that he would win. Then he came up. | 
Chief Coyote said: ‘‘ Now we will go on. || We have won over you.” 
They came to another town, | and they were told: ‘““What do you 
want?’’ (Coyote) said: ‘We will play.” | He was told: ‘“‘ What will 
you play?”’ He said: ‘‘ Whatever you | like.’ He was told: ‘“We 
will play boxing.” | He was told: ‘‘Whoever is knocked down, he 
will lose.”’ || Coyote said to his children: ‘‘Who will play?”’ | Flicker 
said: “Ill be it.”” He was told: ‘‘No; you will be knocked down.” | 
He said he wanted to be the one. There was 
could not speak. | Flicker was the younger brother. || The most expert 
one in the town was Kneecap. Then they met. | They went against 
each other, those who were to fight. Flicker was struck a hard blow, | 
and at once he was thrown upward. He was always rolling about, | 
an. expert boxer. He 
and lost his senses. He was thrown back, 
and he was struck again 
from below. He was knocked back still farther. Hawk was sitting 
there, || and saw that his younger brother had almost been killed. | 
and 
struck him hard. He gave him a hard knock | when he struck him. 
Then he went out of his own body.'' He went up to Kneecap 
ITe went up to him and struck him again. Then he | knocked a piece 
1 This was explained that his supernatural power went out of his own body to attack the enemy. 
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