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out again. He took it in, and again || it was loaded with birds. He 
said to his grandmother: ‘‘Grandmother!”’ | The old woman looked, 
and there was a pile of birds. | She was told: “Prepare them. Let 
us eat.’’ The old woman was glad. | 
In the morning he said to his grandmother: ‘‘Is there no leg skin | 
of a yearling buffalo calf?’ The old woman said: “There isn’t 
any.’ The old man said: || ‘Old woman, do you bring it, that there 
may be some!”’ | The old woman looked forit. She sawsome. She 
said to him: | ‘Here it is. It is a little piece.’”’ The child said: | 
“Give it, anyhow.” The child made the netted ring. He took it 
out. | He opened the door a little farther. He went there. || He said 
to his grandmother: ‘Cover your head with your blanket.’’? Then 
he began to roll | the netted ring to the door. Hesaid to the ring: | 
‘Surprise them a little; the old man does not like me.’ | Then the 
netted ring rolled along there. The boy said: | ‘‘Go away, go away, 
go away, grandmother! The game will hook you.” || There was noise 
of running, but the old woman and the | old man would not get up. 
When he threw back his blanket, he saw the game | jumping into the 
tent. It was about to hook them. Then the | boy threw his lance 
and killed it. He went there. | Hesaidto her: ‘“‘Grandmother, cut 
it up.” The old woman arose, || and saw a yearling. She was glad. | 
Then she skinned it. He said to his grandmother: “Don’t | spill the 
guts. Put them behind in the tent, and also the hair.’’ | She put the 
coagulated blood inside. He said to her: “Grandmother, put it also 
behind in the tent.’’ | Then the old woman cut it up and dried the 
meat. || In the evening they slept. Early next morning the boy 
arose, | and he said: “Grandmother, I’ll eat pemmican.”’ | The old 
woman said: ‘There isno pemmican.”’ The | child said: ‘ You put 
it away. Look!” The old woman went there. | She looked at the 
guts. They had become pemmican. || His grandmother took a piece, 
and also the old man, | and they all ate pemmican. In the morning 
the boy said: | ‘Grandmother, is there no edge piece of the skin of a 
buffalo cow?” She said: | ‘There is none.’”?’ The old man said: 
“There is some; give it to the child.” | She looked and found it. 
She said to her grandson: ‘There is a || small piece.’’ He said to his 
grandmother: “Anyway, give it to me.” | She gave it to him. He 
made a larger netted ring, | the same as before, and he made it in the 
same way as the day before, when he killed | the yearling. That was 
his blanket. On the same day the boy | killed a cow and made a 
blanket for his grandmother. | 
Across the river from where the tent was there was the town | 
where Coyote was married. The youth said to | his grandmother: 
“Grandmother, give me pemmican; I'll draw water.’’ | His grand- 
mother gave him pemmican. | The youth knew already that at the 
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