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him. | “He must mean the partridge tail.” Then he took out the 
partridge | tail and gave it to him. He said to him: ‘TI think he 
meant just this. | He must have meant it.’ (The boy) took it back 
and gave it to Coyote. || He was told: ‘My father says you must 
have meant this.”’ | Coyote said: ‘‘What else should I mean?” | Fox 
said: “Don’t gamble for a while. I shall go.” | Coyote was told: 
“My father said you should wait for him. | He is coming.” Then 
Fox got ready. || It was not long before Coyote shouted, saying: “You | 
let me wait. I ought to have back already what I have lost.” 
Fox arrived there, | and said to Young Coyote: ‘Let us be partners!”’ 
Then | he went there, and they gambled. He moved his hands in 
the game and sang. | He sang thus: || 
“Whenever I am pointed out, the gambling bone will disappear.” | 
And he sang also another song. He sang thus: | 
“Tf I lose, they’ll die.”’ | 
It was not long before he began to win. Salmon bet again. | They 
gambled, and Fox won another game. Young Coyote was his part- 
ner. || While Young Fox and Coyote themselves had lost, | now Sal- 
monlost everything. Salmonsaid: | “You ought to stake against our 
sister.”’ | Fox said: “It is well, since you say so.” | They staked, and 
Salmon lost again. They had nothing else to stake. || He started 
home, and cried because he had lost his younger sister. | Fox said: 
“She shall be your son’s wife. My son | is still too young.” Then 
Coyote had a daughter-in-law. | She married his son. | 
(c) SALMON WOMAN TRIES TO DROWN COYOTE 
The friends lived together. Then Young Coyote had a child. || At 
once the woman began to cry. She had a canoe. | Because Fox had 
won, therefore they had | a canoe. The woman got ready at once. 
Coyote saw | that his daughter-in-law was going home. Then’| Coyote 
also got ready to accompany his son where || he was going. Fox 
thought: ‘There are bad places in that | river. Let me go along. 
Coyote and his son might die.” | Then Fox also got ready. | The 
woman went aboard the canoe. She was told: | ‘Wait; I'll get 
aboard.” Then the woman cried. || Fox said to his son: ‘You stay 
here; Pll go along. | Coyote and his son might be killed.” Then | Fox 
went aboard, and the canoe started. | The woman was seated in the 
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