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again forGame. Then | noise was heard high up on the mountains. | 
Coyote thought the Game would begin to come down, | but all at once 
all the Game Animals threw down stones. They all threw stones at | 
Coyote. Then Coyote knew that | the Game Animals were making 
waron him. At once he got ready. | He did as he always does when 
going to war. He put stripes on himself || and pinned tail feathers 
of the red flicker on himself. | Then he gave a war cry and jumped 
sideways. | His whole tent was torn up by the stones. | His son 
Q!uta’ptsek! was knocked down. Then three, Misqolo’wum | and her 
parents, were left over. They were jumping back and forth. Then || 
Misqolo’wum was knocked down. Now two were left, Coyote and 
his wife. | They two jumped back and forth. Then Dog also was 
knocked down, | and Coyote alone was left over. He was jumping 
back and forth. | Then there were no more stones up on the moun- 
tain, | and the Game Animals did not roll down any more. They 
picked up some more, || and aftersome time they found stones. Then 
there were no more. Coyote was standing there. | They could not 
kill him. | 
Little Flathorn went that way. There a small sharp flat stone 
was lying. | He hit Coyote with it. He said: | ‘‘ Well, look out, 
Coyote!” Coyote was standing there. || He heard a noise. He said: 
“Hey!” It was a | thin stone which made the noise. Then he put 
his | head sideways quickly. He was listening for the noise. | He was 
hit hard on the head and was knocked down. | He began to fall, and 
as he was falling he said: “Tl turn into || a piece of wood.” Then 
a piece of wood fell from his body, and he fell | into the river in the 
form of a plank. | 
(c) COYOTE STEALS THE SALMON 
He drifted down. He drifted along. He came toatown. There 
was a fish trap. | He stopped where they went to dip water. There 
were | two girls, who went to get water. They saw a good piece of 
wood, || and one said: ‘‘ Well, let me take it to use it for my dish!” | 
She carried it and put fish into her dish. She did not eat all. | In 
the evening she put it up. At night | Coyote ate the fish. He went 
under the girl’s blanket. | On the following morning the one looked 
for the dish, and it was with her. || Her friend said to her: ‘Oh, 
you must have eaten all that was left over!’ | They took the fish 
trap ashore and ate again. At night they again | put up the food 
that was left. When they were asleep, Coyote | ate again the fish 
that was in the dish; and when he had eaten all, | he went under the 
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