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bow. They traveled along. There was a cascade. They came to 
it. | Coyote said: ‘Wait; paddle ashore! ll carry the child along- 
shore.” || The woman did not want to doit. She cried. | Then they 
arrived at the cascade. Fox knew | that the woman was angry with 
them. Fox had a bladder. | He told Coyote and his son: “Go into 
this | bladder.’”” Then Coyote, his son, and Fox went in. || Fox had his 
pipe in the hole of the bladder. Then | the canoe upset and sank, 
The woman thought | they were dead, but the bladder floated. 
Farther down the river | the canoe came up again. The woman 
looked back, | and there they were sitting together. They were not 
dead. || 
She turned back. Not far away there was another cascade, | a still 
more terrible one. Coyote said: ‘Wait; Ill | carry my grandchild 
along the shore.” The woman did not look at him. Then | they 
arrived there, and Fox worked again at his bladder. | Coyote, Fox, 
and the boy went in again. || He held the pipe at the edge of the ‘ 
hole. Then their canoe went down again. | A little farther down the 
river the canoe emerged again. | Coyote, Fox, and the child came 
out. The woman looked at them, | and they all sat down together, 
and again she had not killed them. | 
(d) SALMON WOMAN TRIES TO KILL COYOTE IN HER TENT 
Then the woman got back to her tent. She thought: |] ‘My brother 
shall kill all of them.” There was a smooth precipice there. | They 
went ashore. The woman landed, and kicked | the canoe. She thought 
she would upset it. | Then they climbed up a bad place. The friends 
did not know what to do | when they came to the bad place, but Fox 
had thrown tobacco on it. Then || they went on, and the friends 
reached the top. There wasa tent. When the woman entered, | she 
said: “T bring them all; kill them all.’ She meant (spoke to) | her 
elder brothér. When the friends arrived there, a young man was 
lying down. | He arose and went out. Two old women also arose. | 
Each took a dish and they went out. After some time || the twe 
came back again, carrying (the buckets) filled with dog manure. | 
They threw it into the fire. Then all the people covered their heads 
and | lay down. The dog manure was burning, | and there was bad 
smoke in the house. Fox did the same thing with the bladder. | 
After some time there was no smoke. They took off || their blankets 
and they looked at Fox. They were allsitting there together, | and 
again they had been unable to kill them. | 
Then at night they were told by an old man: ‘There is no | salmon. 
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