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went out. | He called Duck and said to him: ‘‘Duck, || I am cold.”’ 
Duck went out and hit | the chief with his head. He said: ‘Stop, | 
stop! It hurts me. Something must be on your head.” | Duck did 
not mind it. Then the chief fell down. | Duck had killed him. 
Thus three were killed by Duck and his uncle |! — Crane and his wife 
were killed, | and the chief was killed. They went there and looked, 
and there was | Ya.uk*e’;ka‘m. They knew he had arrived. They 
talked to one another, | and they said to one another: “Ya.ukve’;ka'm 
has arrived. He has come back to life. | That is the reason why 
Duck and his parents have done so, for they were angry.’’ Then|| 
they were more afraid of Ya.uk"e’;ka‘m. He was a great chief | in 
the town. | 
Now I have finished telling what | Ya.uk"e’;ka°m did long ago. | 
56. CorotE AND Doa@ 
(a) COYOTE MISSES THE DEER 
Coyote lived in a tent. His wife was Dog. It was | winter 
time. Dog and her children with her went out | for fuel. There was 
astump. She chopped it down. For a long time | a deer used to 
have a hole there in the stump that Dog chopped down. || The deer 
was hit when it fell. There was its hole. It was broken. | The deer 
jumped out quickly. There was snow on the ground, and Dog fol- 
lowed the deer. | She caught up with it and caught it by the tail. She 
said to her children: | ‘‘Go and get your parent. He shall shoot it.’’ | 
The two children started to run. One was named || Misqoto’wum; 
the other one was named Q!ota’ptsek!. Misqolo’wum | was a boy; 
Q!ota’ptsek! was a girl. They arrived | at their tent and spoke to 
their father. They said: ‘‘Mother says you should come | and take 
the deer.” Coyote ran out quickly. | He split a little tree’ and he 
broke in two a bush.? || He went in again and pulled. off quickly his 
hair band. | He went there. He spilled rose hips, which were all the 
food that they had. | He ate them. Then he made a bow, and he 
quickly made two arrows | out of the bush.’ Then he started. He 
got there, and his wife stood there | holding the tail. He had snow- 
shoes on his feet. There was much snow where || his wife was hold- 
ing the deer. First he tramped down the snow in front of her, and | 
said to her: ‘‘ Now let go!” Then Dog | let go of the deer. The 
deer was running in the deep snow. Coyote shot. | Just then (the 
deer) broke through the snow and fell. The arrow went over 
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