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he would catch up with him on the right side. 'Then Coyote jumped 
along his side. |Then he jumped around on the left side of 
Grizzly Bear. | Coyote went past. Grizzly Bear was going along, 
and || Coyote did the same again. Grizzly Bear thought: ‘Now Il 
catch | Coyote. Ill bite him.” Then Coyote jumped along on the 
other side. | ThenGrizzly Bear turned to the right side quickly | to 
eatch him, but again he could not catch him. Grizzly Bear went 
along | ashort distance, and saw Coyote. He was going along tired. || 
He overtook him. Then Coyote was looking from one side to the + 
other. | His tongue was lolling. There was a big stone. Coyote 
thought: ‘““Now | Grizzly Bear will bite me.’”?” He chased him around 
that stone." Then Grizzly Bear was about to catch him, and | Coyote 
was out of breath. Coyote fell down there. He lay there | for a 
time, and thought: “Why doesn’t Grizzly Bear bite me?” | Then he 
felt something on his hands. He looked at it, and saw | that he had 
his hands in the horns of a buffalo bull. He looked at the Grizzly 
Bear. | He was standing by hisfeet. (Coyote) stood up quickly | and 
ran after him. He spoke to him in the way a bull bellows, and 
Coyote said: || ‘“Fff!’? Then Coyote knew that (Grizzly Bear) was 
afraid of him. | He pursued him. The way Grizzly Bear had done, 
that way | Coyote did to him. He also did the same. | Grizzly Bear 
looked from side to side over his shoulders. There was a river. He 
started to swim. Coyote put out | one of his hands with the horn 
where Grizzly Bear was swimming ahead. || He hit him withit. He 
hit his backside, and he put out the other one | and with it also he 
hit his backside. | Grizzly Bear swam across there. Coyote sat 
down. When Grizzly Bear was across, | he looked back. Coyote 
was sitting down. Coyote said: | “Grizzly Bear, you were going 
to bite me. || It should be once that that Grizzly Bear bit Coyote.”’ 
Grizzly Bear did not speak. He was afraid. | It is true, Coyote was 
never bitten by Grizzly Bear, and’| he was helped by his friend 
Buffalo Bull. Enough. | 
It is finished. | 
58. CoYOoTE AND Fox 
Well, I'll tell you about the friends, Coyote and | Fox—what they 
did long ago. | ; 
(@) YOUNG COYOTE AND YOUNG FOX STEAL THE HOOP 
There were the friends. The one had a young son, and the other 
one also had a young son. | Coyote sent out his son in the evening, 
and said to him: || ‘Look for manitou power.”’ Then Young Coyote 
went out at night. | The people were not yet asleep when he came 
back into the tent. When | Fox knew that his friend was asleep, 
he told | his son to go and look for manitou power. Then Young 
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