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the old woman saying?’’ They went there , and questioned her. 
She did not speak. She was just crying aloud. | Then all had ques- 
tioned her, but the old woman did not speak. Coyote went there. | 
He said to the old woman: ‘‘ Do you say || that you will have no more 
food for a long time?’’ Then the old woman cried no more. She 
said: | ‘““Yes!’’ The people said: ‘What shali we do to make spring 
come?” | 
There was another town, and there they kept | the seasons. After 
twelve months had passed, these | people would untie the springtime 
and the summer time and || the fall of the year. Then they would tie 
up again the winter. | Therefore they said: ‘‘What shall we do with 
them?’ They said among themselves: | ‘Let us go and steal it!” | 
Then they started. Now, those up in the sky counted that the 
winter would last six | months, and that six months more would _pass || 
before spring came. They arrived at that town, and said: ‘‘ Who- 
ever | can walk secretly shall go there.’”’ There was a boy. | It was 
known that he could walksecretly. He wastold: ‘You shall stealit.”’ 
Then | he started. He almost came to the tent. He worked | his 
manitou power. After he had done so, his manitou spoke to him, 
and told him || what he was to do when he entered, and where it was 
hanging. He took some gum. | He entered the tent; and when he 
arrived, they said: | ‘‘ Whoever can throw farthest shall take it, after 
it has been thrown out. | Then he shall throw it away; and the one 
who is strongest shall stay on | the prairie on the hillside. It will be 
thrown there; and when he catches it, || he shall tear it at once.’’ | 
There was one very strong man. Tis manitou was | Grizzly Bear. 
He was told: ‘You shall tear it.” Then | the youth went in. He 
saw an old woman standing there. | She said to him: ‘It is midwin- 
ter.’’ Then he said to her: || ‘‘Where is the springtime?’”’ He was 
told: “It is hanging there.’’ | He said to her: ‘‘Where is the sum- 
mer?’’ and she told him. | He was holding the gum. He held it in 
his hand close to the fire. |The old woman thought that he.was 
warming his hands, for it was cold. | She did not know that he was 
heating the gum. After some time |! it melted. Then he attacked the 
old woman and stuck | (the gum) on hermouth. Then he went to get 
the thing in which she had said | the springtime was kept. He pulled 
it off and carried it out. Then the old woman | ranout quickly. She 
intended to speak, but could not speak. | (The gum) was stuck on 
her mouth. It was just seen that || the old woman was moving her 
arms, pointing in a certain direction. They went that way. | When 
they got there, she pointed to her tent. She pointed that way. | 
They looked in, and the springtime was gone. They looked for it, | 
and it was known that the people were carrying it away. | Then 
they made war on them. They wanted to kill all those who had 
stolen it. When || they were about to overtake them, another one | 
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