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aside too, also the skin; | put the coagulated blood into it and put it 
aside.” Then | the woman did as her husband told her. | 
Coyote saw what his friend and his sister-in-law were doing, || and 
he told his wife to do the same. She carried it | in her blanket. 
When evening came, Coyote’s wife did the same| as Tree Chief’s 
wife was | doing. | 
Early in the morning Tree Chief and his wife arose. || Then they 
ate. He said to his wife: | ‘‘Where is the pemmican? I’lleat.’’ She 
said to him: ‘Is there any | pemmican?”’ He laughed, and said to 
her: ‘You brought it in. | There it is.” His wife said to him: “‘Is 
that pemmican? | Those were guts.” He said to her: “Bring it out 
and look at it.” || Then the woman pulled it out slowly. It was 
heavy. | She looked at it, and it had turned into pemmican. There 
were no more | buffalo guts. Then it was eaten. He said to her: 
“Pull out your blanket.” | She said to him: ‘Is there one? There 
was one, but it was all bloody.” | He said to her: ‘Pull it out and 
look at it.’ The woman took || the bloody blanket. It was ne more 
that way. | It had become a new one with beautiful stripes. He said 
to his wife: | ‘‘Look also at the other things we put aside.’”’ The 
woman looked | at the skin which she had put aside. . It had become | 
a tanned skin with a painting in the middle, although it had been 
full of sores || with bad hair, for it had been an old | buffalo cow. 
Its fur was very good. | 
After Coyote had watched what his friend was doing, | he did the 
same, but nothing happened. | His wife’s blanket remained stiff, and 
the skin that she had put aside || remained rawhide, and the stomach ~ 
which she had put aside | remained as before. It was buffalo dung. 
His wife cried, | because he had given her trouble. Tree Chief said to 
his sister-in-law: | ‘Don’t ery! Put them back again.” Then the| 
woman, the wife of Coyote, put back again her || own blanket, the 
~ rawhide, and the guts, | but Golden Eagle did just the same as Tree 
Chief. | He did the same to him. He was glad | when he saw what 
his son-in-law had done, | but his other son-in-law made him 
ashamed. || He was ashamed on account of what he had done. | 
After a while, Tree Chief told his sister-in-law: | ‘Look again at 
the things you have put aside. Eat | pemmican with the children.” 
The woman looked at it, and it had turned | into pemmican. Coyote 
had not been able to do it. And there || were also two blankets. 
She looked at them, and both were good. Then | Tree Chief finished 
his good work. | 
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