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they look terrible. When one of them arrives, he will say, | ‘I am 
glad, now my children have something to eat.’”’ || He knew that 
Ya.uk"e’;ka‘m was chief. | Therefore he said that he was glad that 
his children killed him (?). Now it began to rain. | The Thunderbird 
made a noise. Then they saw the Thunderbird flying home. | Thun- 
derbird said: ‘I am glad, now | I have something to eat for my chil- 
dren.” (I forgot something. || Coyote was told that when the Thun- 
derbird would say he was glad, | he would say, ‘‘Who is tired from 
walking? Ishall take the marrow out of his leg.”’ || Coyote was told: 
“When the Thunderbird says this to us, | get up and say, ‘I don’t 
get tired, | I don’t get tired; my younger brother always gets tired 
because || he is shaped badly.’’’?) Then Coyote sat down again. | 
Ya.uk"e’;ka‘m was told: “Stretch your leg this way, I will pull out | 
the marrow with my mouth.’”’ Then Ya.uke’;ka‘m stretched out his 
leg. Then | Thunderbird put his mouth there, and it was just as if 
Ya.ukte’;ka‘m had no more marrow. | Then (Ya.uk"e’;ka°m) threw 
his spear and stabbed || the Thunderbird with it in the nape of the 
neck. He killed the Thunderbird, who | broke his nest while he was 
falling down. Then | he was there. The two children were told: 
“When your father comes, | and if he says, ‘Why is our nest bro- 
ken?’ | tell him: ‘That happened when they came up.’”’ || The two 
manitous were sitting down in the place that was broken. It was 
not | long before it began to rain again, and the Thunderbird made a 
noise again. | Then the Thunderbird flew back; and this one | spoke 
in the same way as the other one had spoken. The Thunderbird said: 
“Who | is tired from walking? I shall pull out the marrow from his 
leg.”’ Coyote arose || and said this. Hesaidthesameasbefore. He 
danced and said: | ‘I don’t get tired from walking, I don’t get tired 
from walking; my younger brother always gets tired | because he is 
badly shaped.” Then Coyote sat down again. | Thunderbird said: 
“Stretch your leg this way, I will pull the marrow out of it.” | Ya.- 
ukte’;ka‘m stretched out his leg || the way he had done before, and 
his marrow was as it had been before. | He threw his spear at him 
and killed him. | 
Then he said to the two children: ‘Now fly down with us.” | One 
of the children said: ‘‘Sit down on my back.” | Then Ya.uk"e’j;ka‘m 
sat on the back of the one. || His friend was told: ‘‘ You shall make 
anoise.”’ Then | the young Thunderbird flew away. He flew upward. | 
Coyote was looking on. He flew way up. Then | Coyote shouted, 
and he began to come down. | He flew by. Then he flew down to 
the land. Coyote was told: || ‘““Now it is your turn. Sit on me, 
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