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ing they started. Fox was to paddle, || Young Coyote was to spear 
(the fish), and the boy was to carry thetorch. | Coyote wastoremain(in 
the tent). Coyote was told: | “Don’t sleep. Look at the | fire. If 
you should fall asleep, they will kill you.”’ Then they paddled away. | 
Fox paddled. Young Coyote was the one to spear || the salmon, and 
the boy was to hold the torch. | Coyote remained (in the tent) for 
some time. | Coyote looked out. Coyote was told: | “If you should 
see a small fire, then come out. Then | we are about to kill one an- 
other. For that reason the fire will be thus.”’ || It was not long before 
he looked out again. Then he saw that the fire | in the canoe was 
small. Then he knew that they were about to kill | one another, 
There on each side of the doorway stood an old person. | They were 
holding a hammer each, ready to strike with it | if any one should 
want to go there. Then they would strike from each side. When 
he saw the light in the canoe getting smaller, || he intended to go out. 
It was not long before | the boy came running in, and said: | ‘The 
manitous have killed us!” Coyote thought: | ‘I shall certainly die. 
That hammer is terrible. Although only an old woman | is holding 
it, nevertheless the hammer is made of stone, and she will || kill me 2 
with it.”’ Coyote jumped there. He thought: | “Ill fool them!”’ 
When that old woman saw that he | was about to go out, then the 
old people lifted their hammers | to hit him. They both stood with 
legs apart, ready to strike Coyote. | They were about to knock him 
down. Then Coyote jumped there. || He stopped quickly. The : 
old people thought | he would jump through between them, and 
they struck; | but since Coyote stopped quickly, the old people | 
struck each other right on their heads. They | hit each other and 
killed each other. Then || Coyote started to go to the place where they 
had landed. He went there | and got there. Then Fox and Young 
Coyote paddled ashore. | They were just tellingeach other: “Certainly 
the old woman has knocked down | Coyote, therefore he has not come 
to the shore.’”’ | Then Coyote talked, and said: “I am here. The 
old people have not killed me. || I have made trouble for them.’”’ Then 
he laughed aloud. | He laughed thus: ‘‘So, so, so!”” Fox knew now | 
that he had killed the old people, and that he laughed for this reason. 
He said to him: | ‘‘Hurryup! Comeaboard! Those who | make war 
on us are coming.’’ || 
(e€) FOX KILLS SALMON 
Then Foxsaw a youth coming out—thesame one | whom he had seen. 
the day before when he arrived and entered the tent. | The youth 
went downtotheriver. Then | hetransformed himself into asalmon, 
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