BoAS] KUTENAI TALES 129 
running by. | He had a pile of (game) what he killed. He did not 
know what to do with it. He said to them: ‘Evidently you have 
no game. | You ought to carry some meat home for me.’ He was 
told: ‘“We do not || carry meat for one another.’ Then there was 
nobody left, and he did not know what to do with it, | with the nine 
animals. At once he called his manitous. He told those whom he 
had called: | ‘‘Tell me what to do with my game.” | They said to him: 
“You think that they, those who went by, killed nothing. | They 
blow on it and it becomes small. || Then they put it into their belts.” 
Then Coyote | blew on it, and (the game) became small. Then he put 
on | the seven bears and the two bucks. He ran back quickly. | They 
thought Coyote would not come home before night, because he had 
much game. | They went along, but Coyote was able to run fast. | 
They were not home yet before he passed them. He got home. He 
pulled off | what he carried on his belt. He kicked it into the tent, 
and | it was all big again, and the nine animals were piled up there. | 
Then Coyote scared them again. | 
In the evening they assembled again in the chief’s || tent and ate 
again. Coyote did not go in. They heard | Coyote. There were no 
other men in the town. | Somewhere Coyote made a noise where the 
women were. Coyote was afraid; | for when he had gone there the 
day before, he was not given anything to eat. Coyote entered | his 
wife’s tent, and she said to him: ‘‘Why don’t you go there || where 
they are assembled to eat ?’ He said: “Oh, yesterday I went there, | 
and they made fun of me.’”’ He went to the place where they were 
assembled. | He went in and staid there. Then they were smok- 
ing. | After a long time, in the evening, they went out again. | 
Where he was sitting, Coyote saw a skin-drying || frame (?) belong- 
ing to his father-in-law. It was pretty. He thought: | “Vl steal it.” 
Then Coyote said: ‘I can not go out; | I’ll sleep here in this house.” 
Then | the Sun was asleep. His father-in-law knew | what he was 
thinking about, that he was going to steal it. The Sun did not 
speak. Then, || after a while, in the evening Coyote saw that his 
father-in-law was asleep. | He arose and took the drying frame 
and put it under his blanket. | He went out again, started, and went 
along. | He thought he was far away, and he lay down and went to 
sleep. | Being tired, Coyote slept there. He woke up and heard|| 
people talking. THe arose, and he saw that it was 
Sun. He had gone far, but this happened because he | had taken the 
drying frame. He said: “Ah! | I long for this drying frame.’ He 
hung it up. Then | Coyote went out. In the evening he came in 
again. They were assembled there. || Then all went out again. 
the tent of the : 
240 
245 
250 
255 
260 
270 
bo 
“J 
Or 
280 
