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speared 
and were taken up. Then they-assembled and: ate them. 
In the evening | Coyote sang again. He said to the Salmon: | ‘In 
the evening three of you shall go into the trap.’’ Then Coyote 
slept. | In the morning he said to his wife: ‘‘Tell your father || to go 
down to his trap.’” Sparrow went there, and saw | three salmon. He 
went ashore, spoke, and said: | ‘‘Spear the three salmon in the 
trap.”’ They went down | and speared them. Then they assembled 
and ate them. Then they had almost | enough to eat, because there 
were three salmon. In the evening || Coyote went down and said to 
the Salmon: ‘‘ Now | fill up the fish trap. In the morning he said to his 
wife, | ‘Tell your father to go down early to his trap.’”’ In the morn- 
ing | Sparrow went down. He saw that the fish trap was full at | that 
place. Then he went ashore, spoke, and said: ‘ Boys, || take your 
spears and spear and throw | ashore the salmon. They are almost 
breaking the trap. | There are plenty of them.’ Then they went 
down. It was seen that the salmon almost | brokeit. Then all the 
men speared them, | and the women carried them ashore. Then || they 
were cut. Then they were plenty, and they were dried. | Coyote 
staid there. He already had two children. | 
He said: “Now I'll go to some other place.” Then he left his 
wife. | When Coyote was about to leave, he put himself across the 
water. He said to the | Salmon: ‘‘ Don’t go this way. You shall 
go || the other way.”’! | 
Now I have told the whole story. | 
61. ORIGIN OF THE SEASONS 
Well, I will tell you a story of what happened long ago in this | 
world. They were staying at a certain place a long time ago, | and 
summers and winters were long. | 
There was a town. It was winter time. A man || named Coyote 
- went into the tent of an old woman, who gave him | food. The old 
woman. was named Squirrel. Squirrel said: | ‘‘There is no more 
food, and it is along time .| before spring will come. What shall I do? 
There is no more food.’’ Coyote said: | ‘Well, cry. Then if the 
people come in and ask you, || ‘Why do you cry?’ don’t answer. 
When they have all spoken to you, | I shall say to you, ‘Do you say | 
that your food will be gone long before spring comes?’ Then you will 
say, | ‘Yes!’’’ Then Coyote went out. | 
Squirrel thought that what he had said was good. || Then she 
cried. She cried aloud. The people in the town said: | ‘‘What is 
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