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along. | While he was being carried there, he said to the girls: 
“T will sing, | I will dance.’’ | 
When the two girls arrived, they said: | “The old woman also 
wants to dance.”” Snipe said: || ‘‘Well, she also shall dance.”’ Then 
they danced. | Coyote knew what was done. | The old woman! was 
told: ‘“‘Now you sing!”” Then, | while the dancing was going on, 
they sang— | 
: “Try to get good luck out of Coyote’s, Coyote’s eyes!”’ || 
The old woman sang that which was said. She also | said so. She 
was not anold woman; she was Coyote. There was no 
light where 
they -were dancing. The two girls were told: | “Let the old woman 
stand up. Lead her. She is poor.’ | Then the two girls made their 
grandmother stand up. || They danced. They tried hard, because 
the old woman was singing. | They were glad. They danced for a 
longtime. | Then the old woman said: ‘Let gowhat yousing about.” | 
They carried the eyes of Coyote. Then Coyote carried | his eyes. 
They were dancing about. || Then it was noticed that (the voice) of 
the old woman was going down. | She was almost out of breath. 
Almost they could hear her no more. | Then she was heard singing 
by the doorway. Then she was not heard any more. | They stopped, 
and did not dance any more. They said: | “Bring alight! Look for 
Light was made, 
and they looked for the old woman. Then they saw the skin lying 
there. | The old woman was gone. | Only her skin remained. They 
heard Coyote some distance away. He laughed, | and they said: ‘It 
the old woman! She may have died of fatigue.”’ | 
was Coyote, it was not the old woman, | who danced. Coyote killed 
her. It was only | 
Now I have told you what Coyote did to | his eyes. | 
her skin.”’ | 
63. CoYOTE AND DEER 
I'll tell you how Coyote made the | Deer. | 
There was a town. Long ago the Deer used to bite the people. | 
They never went out hunting. Only the men who were skillful || went 
hunting. Those who were unskillful were bitten by the Deer. | There 
was that town. They were hungry because the Deer was bad. | 
Coyote thought: ‘‘Let me go hunting!”” He was told: | “Don’t go 
hunting! The Deer might bite you.” Coyote said: ‘Oh, | I'll work 
my manitou power. The Deer shall not bite me.”’ || Coyote started. 
1That is, Coyote. 
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