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(b) COYOTE AND THE GIANT 
Then they started to where they were going. They were going 
along. | Ya.ukte’;ka‘m said, he said to Coyote: ‘A child is hanging 
in a cradle. | The child is crying. One does not listen to it. || Don’t 
listen toit!’? Then they arrived there. Coyote heard | the child cry- 
ing. Then, when Ya.uk"e’;ka‘m arrived, | he went past. He did not 
look at the child. When | Coyote arrived, he also did not look at the 
child, and went past; | but he had not gone past far when he took pity 
on the child. || He turned back and arrived there. He put his finger 
into the child’s mouth. | The child sucked his fingers and | found them 
nice. The child did not cry. Then his hand began to go into the 
mouth, | and he knew that the child was going to swallow him. | He 
pulled at his arm, but could not pull it out. | 
Then Ya.uk*e’;ka°m knew it. He looked back, and | his friend 
Coyote was not there. The child was not crying. | Ya.uk*e’;ka‘m 
turned back, and he came to the child | which was swallowing Coyote. 
Ya.ukte’;ka-m took | his knife and stabbed the child’s head with it. || 
Then the child was dead. Ya.uk%e’;ka‘m took | Coyote’s arm. 
There was no flesh on Coyote’s arm. Coyote saw | that it was no 
child, but a giant. | Then the friends went on. One of them had no 
flesh on his arm. | 
(c) COYOTE AND THE THUNDERBIRDS 
The friends were going along. Coyote was told: ‘The way where 
we || are going along you will hear birds. Do | not listen to them.” 
Then they went along. Then | they heard the birds. They made a 
noise. | Ya.uke’;ka‘m went past, and also Coyote. He did not | listen 
to the birds that made a noise. || Coyote said: ‘I am not listening to 
you, but tako’lsak, ko’tsak, | ko’tsak!’’ When Coyote said so, the 
friends, without knowing it, | were already raised from the ground. 
They were going up. | Then they arrived there where the birds were. 
They had gone into | theirnest. These were two young thunderbirds. 
Both | friends went in, Coyote and Ya.uke’j;ka‘m. Then | they 
staid there. Ya.ukte’;ka°m said to the children: | “Where is the 
sun when your parents come back?’’ One of them said: | “Tt is 
almost evening when the one comes back, and it is evening | when 
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the other comes back. They look terrible.” It was || on rocks on gp 
one side of the mountain, and Ya.uk"e’;ka‘m said | to his friend: 
“TListentome! If youdonot | listen to me, we shall die. You know | 
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