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I am starving.’ His wife laughed at him. | She said to him: “You 
are always like that. || You always disobey me. I told you not | to go 
in. Aman who comes to this town is not given anything to eat. | At 
a later time, another day, when they do so again, then he may go in. | 
Then he is given enough to eat. Meat has been brought in | for us to 
eat. Ihave boiled it. It is there. || Eat.’”” Then Coyote began to 9 
eat. Then | he was satiated and slept. Early Coyote awoke. | He 
heard a noise. People were saying: ‘Hu, hu, | hu!” Coyotesaid when 
he heard it (the same as) what they said. | He said: ‘Hu, hu, hu! 
let me kill two bucks || and red (?) an old grizzly bear with seven young 
ones.”’ | They heard what Coyote was saying. It was frightful | what 
he said. ‘Two bucks and seven | grizzly bears are too heavy. Those 
will be nine. The people of that town don’t carry meat for one 
another.” | Then they started, and Coyote || started, too. They were 
going along. The chief sat down. Then | behind where the chief was 
sitting a row of men started. | Coyote got there. He went past the 
place where | the chief was sitting. Farther ahead he sat down. The 
people thought: | “Coyote is doing wrong. Only those who areskillful | 
may sit at the head. Why does Coyote do so?” | Then they all ar- < 
rived. Sun said: ‘‘Go on | to the end of this mountain. Those who 
‘go quickly shall do it.’ | Coyote was meant. Because he had done 
so, therefore they-said it. | Then the chief arose, and Coyote also] 
arose. Then the chief started. | He started a fire. He carried pitch- 
wood and he started a fire. | They looked at Coyote. He did not 
carry pitchwoed. | They thought Sun would be the only one who 
would light a fire. | Then Coyote put flicker feathers on his moccasins. || 
Heran. They looked at him; | and wherever hestepped, afirestarted. | 
The flicker did so. Then Coyote scared them. | Then they looked at 
Chief Sun. He had not gone far | before Coyote was way over there. 
Then the deer drivers started || and went along. Coyote was seen 
He went around ina circle. | The chief had not 
coming back already. 
gone far when Coyote went the same way again. Then a deer was 
shot |'where the fire was, in the circle of fire. Coyote went along, | 
and saw two bucks. He killed both of them. He went along, || and he : 
saw seven grizzly bears—an old one and young ones. He killed them 
all | and started back. The men had nothing, and Coyote saw them | 
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