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Don’t look at him.’? The boy went back. || When he came back, he 225 
said to his sisters: ‘“‘Father said, ‘That is | Coyote. Don’t look at 
him. | He is not straight.’’’ They continued to dance, and Coyote 
started on. | He said to the Salmon: “Go ahead! Wolverene does 
not want us.”’ | The chief of that town was named Wolverene.|| 
(f) COYOTE MEETS THE FISHERMAN SPARROW 
Coyote went along. He came to a-town. | The chief of that town 230 
was named Sparrow. He said to | the Salmon: “Wait! Tl go to 
the people.’ | Coyote went there, and he saw the girls dancing. | 
When they saw him, they said to a boy: || ‘Go to father and tell him 235 
that a manitou has arrived.’ | The boy started; and when he ar- 
rived at his father’s, | he said to him: ‘A person has arrived.’”’ His 
father said to him: ‘‘How | does he look?’ He said to him: “His 
blanket is white, and he has tail feathers | of the flicker pinned to it. 
He is striped.” Then Sparrow said: || ‘Go back to your sisters and 240 
tell them to take him. It is | Coyote. Sometimes he carries food.” ; 
Then the boy went back. | When he arrived, he said to his sisters: 
“That is Coyote. | Your father says you should take him. Some- 
times he carries food.’ | Then the girls took Coyote’s hand. || They 245 
took him by the arms and danced with him; and-while they danced, | 
they sang, ‘This is Coyote; we will marry him.” After | they had 
danced, they went there. Coyote went back to the river, | and said 
to the Salmon: ‘They want us here.” | 
(g) COYOTE LEADS THE SALMON INTO THE FISH TRAP 
Then they staid there. In the evening Coyote sang. || He said: 250 
“Tt would look strange (?). | Although they have a trap, they are 
starving. They ought to be saved (?).” | Then Coyote slept. Early 
he said to the Salmon: | ‘One of you shall go into the trap.” Early | 
he said to his wife, ‘Tell your father to go to his trap.’ ” || The 
woman said so to her father. She said: ‘Go to the water, | to 255 
your trap.’ Sparrow started and went down, and he saw one | sal- 
mon in it. Then he went ashore and spoke, | and said: ‘‘ Take the 
salmon ashore. There is one in the trap.” | Then it was speared. 
They assembled and ate it. || In the evening Coyote sang again, he 260 
said to the Salmon: | ‘In the evening two of you shall go into the 
trap.” | In the morning he said to his wife, ‘Tell your father to go 
down | to his trap.’”’ Sparrow went there, and he saw the salmon in 
the trap. | He went ashore, spoke, and said: ‘‘Go and spear || the 265 
salmon in the trap.” Then they went to the water. The two were 
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