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arrived. She was glad, for the tent was not burned. It happened 
thus several days. | Then Coyote had completed the ditch. At night | 
Coyote thought: “To-morrow I shall steal them.” || It was night. 
On the following day they went again to pick berries. | They were 
not afraid now, because their child was clever. | Then Coyote began 
to drive the salmon and the fawns. | The salmon reached the large 
river. At once he knocked down | the fawn. Then he burned || the 
tent. He threw the fawn into the fire. Then | he started. The 
friends had gone to pick berries. One of them | looked back and saw 
their tent on fire. Shesaid: | ‘Oh, I almost knew what would happen 
to the child! | Look how our tent looks! Itis burning.”” Then || they 
went back. When they arrived there, they saw that their tent was 
gone. | It was all burned, and there in the middle the child’s bones | 
were burning. Hewas burned. They did not know that they were 
the fawn’s | bones. They cried. The one went to get food. | She 
looked, and there were no more fawns. The other one went there, || 
and she also saw that there were no more salmon, | and she saw the » 
water running down in a stream to the wide river. | She looked, and 
she saw that Coyote was driving their food | which he had stolen from 
them. Then they said to each other: “Oh, that child was Coyote, | 
he who robbed us!” Then || they pursued him. The one ran along, 9 
and gave birth to a child. | The other one was running along, and also 
gave birth to a child. They did not know | that he had slept with 
two. They said to Coyote, | they said: ‘Coyote, oh, leave us some- 
thing to eat for this child! There are | children.” Coyote shook his 
blanket, and a few turned back. || He said to the others, ““Hayo ho!” 9 
Then | he drove allof them. Then the friends cried because | Coyote 
had stolen their food. | 
(e) COYOTE MEETS THE FISHERMAN WOLVERENE 
Then Coyote went along. He saw people fishing. | He said to the 
Salmon: “Wait until I see the people!”’ || Then the Salmon stopped. 
Coyote went there, | and arrived where they were dancing. Some 
and when he arrived, a boy was told by | his elder 
a manitou has ar- 
girls saw him; 
sisters: ““Go to your father and tell him that 
rived.”” The boy went back. When he came there, he said to his 
father: || “A manitou has arrived. My elder sister told me to come.” 99 
Wolverene said: | ‘How does he look?”” The boy said: | “He has a 
white blanket, and toil feathers of the flicker are pinned to it. | He 
is striped.’”’ Wolverene said: ‘‘That is | Coyote. He is not straight. 
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