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Coyote:said: ‘Hiya’, my little son!’”’ Fox said: | ‘“Why did you 
talk, Coyote? Don’t talk! Later on, | when he arrives, we shall know 
whose child has been killed.’’ | Then Coyote said no more. He was 
just sitting there. Then | Coyote and his friend heard the noise of the 
hoop. || They felt glad, but they also almost cried when they heard 
some one saying | that his child had been killed. Then thtre was 
noise of | the hoop. Coyote was told to open the door. | Then Coyote 
arose and opened it. | He sat down,and the hoop came rolling in. 
It rolled || into the tent. It came along rolling. Fox was lying 
down. | He did not move. Then they heard some one singing. | The 
hoop rolled to where Fox was lying. It almost | fell down, but went 
rolling on to where Coyote was sitting down. | There the hoop fell 
down. Then they told him | that Coyote’s son was dead. He fell 
down crying, | and said: “Hiya’, my little son, my. little son!” 
Then Young Fox arrived. | He entered the tent, and he said: ‘I do 
not know what has happened, | but I heard that he was taken. | He 
was seen when they lost sight of me. They said among themselves: 
‘Don’t || kill him! Since you have lost sight of your toy, he shall | 
become your toy.’ Then I went back.” | 
Then Coyote and his friends lived in the tent. Coyote often said: | 
“Tet us make war on them!’’ After some time | his friends said to 
him: ‘Now let us make war on them! || Probably the people are no 
longer uneasy.’ Then the two friends started. | Young Fox was left 
alone. Because he had the toy, | he was not lonesome. Then the 
friends reached the town. | They did not gonear. The two stopped. | 
When the sun was going down, they heard talking there in the town. | 
It was said: “Now go out to play!” It was not | long before they 
came out. Everything that | used to be done with the hoop when 
they were going to play with it was done now. | Then his son was 
taken out. They were all around him. | They saw that his hair was 
all cut. || He used to have long hair, but now he was changed. Then 
they kicked him hard. | He started to run, and they pursued’ him, 
When they caught up with him, he was kicked again. | Then Coyote 
pitied him. He said: | “Let us go nearer! Let us take him back!”’ 
Fox said: | ‘‘Wait, Pll do something!”” He made a sign with his 
head. || Then all of asudden Young Coyote ran fast. They could not 
overtake him. | Fox again made a sign with his head, and Young 
Coyote started again. | They could not catch up with him. He made 
a turn. | Fox made a quick sign with his head. Then Young Coyote 
ran their way. | Then all laughed because they could not overtake | 
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