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off from him. Then he knew that he could kill him, and he was given | 
back to Flicker. It was he again.' Then | Flicker fought him down, 
and that one was killed. | Thus Coyote won again in a bad manner. | 
He said: ‘‘Now we will go.”” They went, | and arrived at a town. 
He was told: ‘““What do you want?” || Coyote said: ‘We will 
play.” Hewas told | somebody would play eating. Much food was 
prepared. | Coyote and his children were told: ‘Who will play?” | 
Bluejay said: “Tl be it.””. Then they went into | the tent. Blue- 
jay sat down and || began to talk of his great-great-grandfathers, who 
lived long ago, and | those before them. Then he ate and talked. 
There was a great pile | of food. He had not been talking very 
long before he had eaten it all. He was still hungry. | Then they 
won. (Coyote) said: “‘Enough!’’ They went along. | 
At once they began to quarrel. Coyote said || he would take 
them through swamps. Coyote was told: ‘You | may go there 
alone, for youlike them, therefore you say so.” Little Duck said: | 
“We will go through little lakes.” He was told: | “You may go 
alone. You like them, therefore you say so.’ | Flicker said he 
would take them through young dry trees. || He was told: “You 
may go there alone. You like them, therefore | you say so.” 
Woodpecker said he would take them through | thickly wooded 
places. He was told: ‘““You may go there alone. | You like them, 
therefore you say so.’ Hawk said he would | take them through 
places with scattered trees. Thus they quarreled. || They became 
angry at one another and separated. That is the end. | 
50. THE War ON THE Sxy? 
There was a town. There was Muskrat’s brother’s widow. He 
thought | he would marry her. Then she refused him. He was 
angry and shot her. | The arrow was of a different kind. He made 
it ina different way, what he used for shooting her. | Then he ran 
away. He said to his grandmother: “‘—— — (%)’”% Then|| his face 
was torn up. Then the dead woman was discovered. | The arrow 
was not known. They sent for Frog, who (was in the habit of going) 
all | over the world. They wanted to know where that | arrow came 
from. Then she (Frog) went into the house where | the arrow was 
kept. She herself knew that it was her grandson’s arrow. || She did 
not know what to do, because it was her grandson, and she did not 
want to tell on him. | She spat into her hands and nodded. | They 
thought there must be a country in the sky, and that there must 
be a lake. | Some one said they would go on the warpath. One of 
them | was able to shoot far. He shot upward, and a noise was 
heard || as the point hit. Then another one shot and | hit the notch 
of the (first) arrow. Then all of them shot, | but they did not reach 
1That is to say, Hawk’s power had entered Flicker, and now left him again. 
2 For another version see p. 87. 
’ My interpreters did not understand this sentence. The word so-q!/me’jto is derived from aa‘ka’q/ne’ 
(‘‘face’’). 
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