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what she thought was bloody, but it was a stump. | She stopped and 
almost fainted from hunger. It was so because she was hungry. | She 
saw that it was a pile of shrews. | Coyote looked at her. Then Coy- 
ote rubbed [it on] his hair. || She was told: ‘‘Why are you standing 
about there? You ought to have put down | the child. Eat with 
them those that are spread out there. They will be | for you and 
the children. This will be mine.”’ Dog took what she carried | and 
threw it down. She took it walking about. | She put it on her back. 
She said to him: “There is another disappointment. I was|| hungry.”’ | 
Then she started. She left Misqolo’wum crying. | Then father 
and son, Misqolo’wum, were left behind. | Q!ota’ptsek! and hismother 
left him. Misqolo’wum was a boy, | therefore he was given to 
Coyote. || Q!ota’ptsek! was a girl, therefore | she was taken by her 
mother. Then Misqoto’wum could not help crying. | He knew that 
he was left by his mother. Coyote took his son | and said to him 
“Don’t ery! As your mother is going along there, | if she does not 
find anything to eat, she will come back.”’ She had nothing || to eat, 
therefore he said so. What should she have to eat? Then | he and 
hisson ateshrews. They finished eating together. He put the boy 
on his back | and started. He went along. | 
(c) COYOTE AND THE BEAVERS 
There were some Beavers. He put downhis son. He said to him: | 
“T’ll take them out of the water, and we shall eat them.’”’ Then he 
broke || the dens of the Beavers and the beaver dams. | Then there 
was no more water. He broke open the dens | and took a young 
Beaver out of the water. He took another | young Beaver out of the 
water. He tied them on his child as ear ornaments. | Beaver saw 
him. He was going to get the best of him. He knew | it was Coyote. 
They said to one another: ‘He wiil kill us all. | Let us pretend to be 
dead.”’ When the Beavers were taken out of the water, they bled 
from the mouth. | Then Coyote was glad. He had taken | many 
Beavers out of the water. Then he stopped. | He looked for fuel. 
Then he went away. The Beavers saw || Coyote going away, and they 
told one another: ‘‘Let us go back | into the water!” Then all the 
Beavers went into the water. All jumped back quickly into the 
water. | They were not dead. It only looked like blood. | Misqo- 
to’wum’s ear ornaments also went into the water. | They dived into 
their holes. They dragged Misqolo’wum in. || They dragged him in. 
There were two holes, one on each side, and one dived into each. | 
Then he called his father. Coyote heard his son | saying: “Father, 
father!”’ There was a turn | in the tunnel (into which they had gone). 
Coyote knew from far away that his | son was calling him. He ran 
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