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took hold of what they were carrying. It was he who could throw 
farthest. When the pursuers were almost 
about to overtake them, 
he threw it. There on the prairie on the hill | the strong one was 
standing. He worked his manitou power | and turned into a Grizzly 
Bear. He caught it because he was strong. || The thing that con- 
tained it was strong. He tore it. | There was wind. It was not 
long before there was no more snow, and it was spring. | Therefore 
spring has six months, and there are six | months winter. The old 
woman did it when there was no food. | 
Now I have told you how |! the world was long ago." | 
62. CoroTE JUGGLES wi1TH His Eyzs 
Well, Pll tell you what Coyote did with | eyes long ago. | Coyote 
went along. He saw a man | running along and stopping. Coyote 
went there. He saw || the man running along and stopping again. 
He saw | that he was looking up. He went on and arrived there. | 
The man did not see him. He saw that he stopped again and that 
he was taking out | his eyes to throw them up. | Then he ran to the 
place where the eyes were going. The man stopped | 
and looked up. 
His eyes came back down, and | he had his eyes again. | 
Coyote thought: ‘Well, Tl take his eyes.” | Then he went. be- 
hind him. (The man) did not see him. He stopped again. | He 
took them out and threw themup. He started to run. || Coyote also 
ran after themand caught the eyes. | Then the man looked up, but his 
eyes did not come down again. | He was without eyes. He went on. 
The one without eyes was named Snipe. | Now Snipe had no eyes. | 
He went on. Coyote went ahead there and started. || He stretched 
out his fingers and just put them into Snipe’s orbits. | Snipe almost 
fell down. Then he went on, | and Coyote did the same again, and 
he almost put his fingers again | into his orbits. Snipe thought: 
“Tt is just as though | somebody was doing this. If it should happen 
again, || even if it hurts, I shall not mind it. I shall just stretch my 
hands out.’’ | Coyotedid so again. Even though it hurt him, | Snipe 
‘ and he 
took hold of him. When Coyote knew that he was caught, he said: 
“Oh, | don’t do anything to me! I will give youyour eyes.” || Snipe 
would not listen. Coyote was caught. | His eyes were taken out, and 
just stretched out his hands. He felt that there was a man, 
1 The young man who stole the bag containing the spring was Lynx. 
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