BoAS] KUTENAI TALES 207 
look at Coyote, (and did not listen to) what he said. Golden Eagle 
thought: | ‘‘He wants it, therefore he didnot speak.” But || Coyote 
laughed at them. Then Tree Chief | skinned it. 
Tree Chief gave his arrow to his wife. | He said to her: “Don’t 
touch it! Don’t touch the dogs and children with it!’’ Then | he 
skinnedit. The chief looked (to see) who had most | fat when they 
scraped off all the fat. He went to his son-in-law. | He was skinning 
the old cow. Then he saw that it was | the fattest buffalo. | 
Coyote saw that his friend had given his arrow | to his wife, and he 
also gave his arrow to his wife. He said to her: || ‘‘Keep it. Don’t 
let it touch anything.” | The wife of Tree Chief stood there. The 
woman forgot | what she had been told by her husband. When her 
hungry dog | saw the meat, it tried to eat the blood. | The woman did 
not know that she touched it with the arrow that she was holding;|| 
(but when she did so, the dog) fell down and died. Tree Chief said 
to his wife: | “I told you not to touch it. | Touch it again with your 
arrow.’’ The woman touched the dog | with the arrow, and it came 
to life again. | 
Coyote saw what had happened. He set by || a dog, struck it, 
and killed it. He told his wife: | ‘‘Why did you do that? I told you 
not to touch it | with the arrow. Touch it again with it.” The 
woman | touched it again, but it still lay there. It did not come to 
life again. | 
Tree Chief said to his wife: ‘‘Go there and || touch the dog with my 
arrow! Whoever owns a dog likes it.”’ | The woman ‘went there and 
touched | the dog with the arrow. It came to life again. Then 
Coyote was laughed | at by the crowd. | 
Tree Chief said to his wife after she had skinned (the buffalo):| 
“Carry the meat there into our tent!”’ | It was bloody, and the woman 
did not know what to do. Tree Chief said to his wife: | “Carry it in 
your blanket!” | The woman carried it in her blanket. The woman 
thought | she would spill the guts. He said to her: “Don’t || spill. 
them! Carry them in with the stomach.’ Then | the woman car- 
ried the stomach, and did not spill | the guts. | 
Night came. Her blanket was bloody. Then the woman thought | 
she would wash herblanket. Herhusband said toher: ‘Don’t || wash 
it! Just putit aside; and also the stomach | and the guts, put them 
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