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it. Then he had one more arrow, | and he shot again. Just then 
(the deer) stood right on the snow, and the arrow went under it. | 
Coyote had no more arrows. Then the deer | left, and it escaped 
from Coyote. There stood | Dog. She was hungry. Coyote pulled 
off the bowstring. | He struck the deer with his bow stave. | He again 
used the bowstring as his hair band. Then the deer ran along. | 
He was without a bow with which to do | anything. | 
He said to Dog: “Take the children along.” | What should his 
wife and his children go to get? | Dog and her children were tired- 
She had an ax || and a hammer, with which she chopped the wood. | 
It was left there. She went back to her house. When she came 
back, she looked for food, | and there were no more rose hips. She 
said to her children: ‘““How does it happen that all our food is 
gone?’ | She was told: “Our parent did it.” Then | they moved 
camp. They were hungry because they had nothing to eat, the deer 
having been saved || and the rose hips also having been eaten. Then 
they had | nothing to eat. | 
(b) COYOTE ROASTS SHREWS 
They started, going away. She carried her parfléche. Q!ota’- 
ptsek! | was on top of it. Then Coyote started, and | went the way in 
which the deer tracks went. Coyote went along. Then || his snow- 
shoes were heavy. He looked, and saw that there were many | 
shrews. Therefore his snowshoes were heavy. | He took a stick. 
He shook his snowshoes. There were a great many. | When he went 
on on his snowshoes, there were many more, and he shook them 
again. | There was a great pile. There was a stump. He threw it 
down, and || it broke. Hestarted afire. Then he roasted the shrews. 
There was a pile of them, | and he added more to them. Then he ate. | 
Dog was going along. She walked through soft snow. | Q!ota’ptsek!. 
said, because her mother carried her she could see well, | she said 
to her elder brother: ‘‘There our father is eating near a fire.” || (I 
made a mistake. It was Q!ota’ptsek! who | was going along, and 
it was Misqolo’wum who was being carried by his mother.) He 
said | to his sister: ‘‘Our parent is eating by the fire.”’ | Dog was 
going along. The child thought it was | the deer that his father pur- 
sued, for the stump looked red. Therefore he said so. || He thought 
the ground was bloody. They went near. | The two children talked, 
being happy. When they came near, | Dog looked that way. She 
saw that her children had told the truth. | The ground was bloody. 
Now they were almost there. | Dog was giad, for she was hungry: 
She had nothing to eat. || The children did not say any more. When 
they arrived, she looked again, and she saw that it was not | meat 
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