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that she was about to be struck with her little hammer. | (Coyote) 
attacked that girl and knocked her down. He had killed them all. | 
He said to them: ‘Now pull their skins off. Don’t tear them.” | 
They did so. They skinned them entirely. Then they put them 
outside. || They dragged them to an old fallen stump, and | Coyote 
moved into Panther’s tent.. Then he put feathers on his arrows. | 
His wife scraped the fat off the skin, and his children cleaned | the 
guts. | 
(b) COYOTE PRETENDS TO BE PANTHER 
Then it was evening. Dog knew what Panther used to do, || and 
she told Coyote about it. Then they did | what Panther used to do. 
He arose, and called all of them. | He called the Game. He said: 
“Oh, | come down quickly!’’ At once they heard noise coming down 
from the mountains. | They put pitchwood on the fire, and the Game 
came in. || The first one he shot. They began to come in, and the 
last one | he also shot. Then there was nomore. They slept. | The 
following morning they went out, and there were two sheep lying 
there. He skinned them. | Then Coyote put feathers on his arrow. 
Dog cleaned | the fat off the skin, and the children cleaned the guts. 
When it was dark, Coyote || did the same. He said: “Oh, it’s no use 
to try to do what you ought to do!”’ | Again he called the Game. 
Then, | when it camein, he shot. He kept on shooting all. | He shot, 
he shot, he shot, until his arrows were spent | and there was no more 
‘game. Then he slept. On the following morning || he went out. 
There were only two of them. The big number (which he had shot) 
were not there. | 
In the evening he heard a sound on the mountains. | Those whom 
he had shot were making a noise. It was the noise of their suffer- 
ing. | Then in the evening the Game Animals said to one another: 
“That is not Panther. Why does he do that to us? | Go and look 
and see who it is.”’ Little Flathorn started. || When he arrived, he 
went where the wind was blowing. | He smelled a stench. He went 
there, and saw | Panther and his children piled up. He came to his 
tent, | looked in, and saw that Coyote was there. Then | he started 
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back. He was not far away when he began to snort. Coyote said: ||» 
‘Oh, what does the Game say?’’ After a little while, | when he was 
farther away, he snorted again; and Coyote said again: | ‘Oh, the 
Game found something!”” Then Little Flathorn got back | and told 
his relatives: | “That is not Panther; it is Coyote. Ifound Panther'|| 
and his children piled up there, all killed.” | 
Then all the Game Animals said: “Let us make war on Coyote!”’ | 
All said: “Well.” Then Coyote and his children arose. | He called 
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