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’ Then one of 
Some one said: ‘Go ashore 
them went ashore. | He said to him: “Why do you say that ¢” 
Coyote said: | ‘We wanted you. You are playing nicely. | We are 
not able to go on the water.”’ The Duck started, and said: | ‘‘They 
are wishing for us. They want to have our way of playing.’’ Then| 
and ask him something.’ 
one of them said: ‘‘Go ashore. Take them 
Then the Ducks went ashore. They made it so that | Coyote and his 
son should not sink, but they did not give them | their feathers. 
Coyote and his son were told: ‘Now | let us go together!’? Then 
they went out together—Coyote, his son, and the Ducks. || Then they 
played with the Ducks. While they were at play, all the Ducks | flew 
along to another lake. They flew there. | Coyote went ashore over- 
land. When he came to the water, he swam, | but the Ducks flew 
again to the other lake. | All at once Coyote laid down arule. He 
said to them: || “It is bad for you to fly away. Don’t do it any 
more. | Swim there through the middle of the water. | Arrange your- 
selves in a line right across, and all of you dive together.” Then | the 
Ducks said to one another: ‘It is good, what the manitou says. | Let 
us do it!” Then the Ducks did so. || At night Coyote went ashore. 
He stepped on shore. | Then Coyote made something to stretch 
across | the brook. Then the Ducks came diving along, and did not do 
anything. | The first one he tied, the next one that came diving 
along | he let go, and the last one that dived coming along he tied 
again. He said || to the Ducks: ‘“‘When you start diving, close your 
eyes. | Don’t look!’”’ Coyote was clever. | (He thought) they might 
see his trap. They | did so for several days. Then Coyote had much 
food. | The Ducks just knew that they ceased to be many. They 
said among themselves: || ‘‘We are getting few in number.’’? One Duck 
said: | ‘The wind is blowing from the place where Coyote’s tent is. | 
It gives a smell of burnt fat. Now go and look into his | tent.’’ One 
Duck was called Great Diver. | He dived and came to Coyote’s 
tent. He went ashore, and saw || many dried ducks. Then he 
knew that it was | Coyote. He went back; and when he came 
back, he said: “It is | Coyote. He is killing all of us.”” Then the 
Ducks cried. | The Ducks said among themselves: ‘‘He will do the 
same to us to-morrow. | Look out when you dive! You will see! 
whether there is anything in the stream.’ Then | on the following 
day the Ducks started diving to another lake. | The first ones all 
looked, and it was not long before they saw | something right across 
1 Mot-head (?). 
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