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said to them: ‘Is this what you want?’”’ He put it into the water. | 
It sank. Again they paddled, and their canoe moved right away. || 
They were saved. Then the crowd stopped | on the water when the 
head of the youth sank. | Fox went on. They did not look back 
again. | 
(f) TURTLE RESCUES THE SALMON HEAD 
Then the one who was the father of the youth said: ‘Who | will 
get this head of my son? I have one more child, || a daughter. He 
shall marry her.’’ Then all the people | dived. They went into the 
water, but could not get it. Just at | noon Turtle—a young man 
called | Turtle—said: “TVll dive, Turtle, | the animal,said to me | I 
should do it, because you know || Turtle is an expert diver. [ll try.” | 
Thus said Turtle. Then that youth said: | “Tl dive. You shall 
paddle back to the shore to your tents. | To-morrow, just at noon, I'll 
come out of the water; | then paddle back here.’”’? Then they went 
back. || On the following day, just at noon, they said to one another: | 
“Turtle was to come up at thistime. Gobacktohim.” Then | they 
all paddled back and waited for him. Just at noon | he emerged, 
carrying the head of the youth. | Then he took the girl. For several 
days she was || his wife. For one or two days she did not talk. Then | 
he teased her to make her talk, but she wouldn’t talk with him. 
Then | he tickled her, and she laughed. Her mouth had a bad smell. | 
He left her. | | 
Now, I have told you about the Salmon. | 
59. CoryoTE AND THE Ducks! 
Well, I'll tell you about Coyote and his children |—what they did, 
a long time ago, to the Ducks. | 
Coyote was going along, carrying his son. He went down to a 
lake. | It is named Where-they-fight-with-Broken-Pieces-of-Wood 
in-the-Lake. || Coyote knew that far away there were many | Ducks. 
He was hungry for them, but had no way of getting at them. He 
thought: | “Vl fool the Ducks.’’ He said to his son: ‘Go on; | 
shout, ‘O my father’s brothers-in-law !’’’? Then the child | said what 
his father had toldhim. Then Coyote also || cried. Heshouted: ‘O 
my brothers-in-law! O my brothers-in-law!”? Then | one Duck was 
swimming farther away on the water. He said | to his children: 
“Wait; listen [to]. what the manitous | are saying!’’ There were 
many Ducks. They listened | to what the manitous were crying. 
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