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Coyote was talking all the time. || He pointed at everything, so that 35 
his friend should | not look at the place where he was to step. | Then 
they had almost arrived at the pit. The pit was | hardly visible 
because it wasa trap. If anything goes along there, | it falls into it; 
everything—deer, grizzly bear, || everything—dies there in the pit. 40 
The friends went there. | They arrived; and while Coyote was point- 
ing at different things, |. he pushed his friend. He threw him into 
the pit. | Coyote looked, and said: ‘‘Hya, friend! I shall have no | 
way of getting you out, for the pit is deep.’”’ He just said so on 
purpose. || He said to him: “Throw up your clothing, | then I’ll get 45 
you up.” Coyote pulled | his friend slightly. He could not get him 
up with his tail. His blanket | was his tail. Therefore he told him 
that he could not do any more, | but he was telling him a lie. 
He did not pull. Then Tree Chief || threw up his war bonnet. 50 
He threw up everything. | Then he was without clothing. Coyote 
said: “Spit up your spittle.” | Then Tree Chief had no more spittle. | 
It became sea shells. 
When || he spat, his spittle changed into shells, and | the sparrow 55 
hawk ate them. When | Coyote had taken everything, he left. He 
had |a shield. He had a tomahawk. He had a war bonnet. 
He had the sparrow hawk. | His clothing was fringed. | 
A sparrow hawk was sitting on his head. 
He arrived at the town. He came out on a prairie, | and shouted. 60 
The people said: ‘Oh, Tree Chief has arrived!” | He was coming 
along. . He came nearer, and arrived at | the town. He was told: 
“There is the tent of the chief!” They thought | that he was coming 
to marry the chief’s || daughter, according to what the chief had said. 65 
He entered, and the place was ready prepared for him, | because he 
was a chief. His wife | was glad when he came. The girl did not 
know | that he was Coyote. He had staid at this town already. | 
When he came back, she did not know that he was (not) her hus- 
band. || She was glad. Coyote sat down. He had the sparrow hawk. | 70 
When he spat, the sparrow hawk would fly down | to eat the shells. 
Then it flew back | to his head. When his sisters-in-law knew that | 
his spittle was thus, they took it, and || the bird would not eat any 75 
more. It was not long before the sparrow hawk was starving. | Then 
Coyote let the sparrow hawk starve, and he had no saliva. | Now, 
the chief had made a mistake. | The name of the chief was Golden 
Eagle. | 
