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were torn. She carried her child. || Her husband could not catch 30 
her. She started to run, | and he pursued her. He was only bones. 
He could not run fast. | She got back, and said: ‘‘My husband ate his 
younger brother, | and he intended to bite my son. He is coming.” 
Then | they said: ‘We will move camp.’”’ Some one said: ‘“W 
enough courage to stay and kill him when he comes ?”’ | Coyote said: 35 
“‘T myself shall stay.” | He was told: ‘‘Don’t.”’ Crane said: ‘“‘I my- 
self shall | stay.” He was told: ‘That is good.” | Then Crane and the 
wife and son of that man staid. || They moved camp, but the three 40 
staid there. It was not long before | Crane started. Then the man 
arrived. There | was nobody left. Two only were there—his wife 
and his son. When he saw | his wife, he said to her: ‘“‘Give me the 
child.” She gave it to him. | When he took it, he took hold of it at 
the two ends and tore it. || He thought he would eat it. His wife 45 
said to him: “Hand it tome. [ shall | go and wash it. The dung 
is bad.” He gave it to his wife. | The woman took it and 
carried it down to the water. Then she went behind. | She threw it 
away. Shebegantorun. She followed (the ‘other people). When | 
she reached them, she said: “He arrived at the place where we 
moved camp. || He has killed his boy.”” Then Crane was told: | ““Go 50 
back and kill him.”” Crane went back. | There was asteep bank. He 
made a hole for himself. The hole was as long | as his legs. Then he 
staid there. | 
That man staid there. His wife did not come back. || He 55 
thought: “Tl go and kill her.” He went | in the direction in 
which she had gone. There was nothing there. Only his son was 
lying there, | and he ate him. Then he started in the direction in 
which she had gone. He went. along | the steep bank. The trail 
passed close to the bank, and | Crane staid there. He went there, 
and did not know that Crane was staying there. || He walked past 60 
that hole. Crane saw him. | He stretched out his foot quickly and 
kicked him over the bank, | and he fell into the water. Then he was 
dead. Then Crane went off. | Enough. | 
[Nos. 52-77. Told by Barnaby] 
52. NAEMU’QTSE 
Well, I am going to tell how our grandfather Natmu’qtse | died. | 
Nalmu’qtse was crawling about in the water. It was not (to be) 
long before he was | to die in this world, which was to be without 
him. He thought: ‘Now let me give || names to this land, so that 5 
my children may not forget me.’ | Then he started, and he gave 
names | tothe places of his children. He gave | names to this their 
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