Boas] KUTENAI TALES Stel 
At night Coyote said to his wife: ‘Oh, | tell your father to look at 
his fortune-telling place.” Coyote started. | Now, Coyote was going 
to play. Early in the morning || Golden Eagle looked at his fortune- 
telling place. There were no tracks. He came in again. | Coyote 
went along. There was some manure. | He piled it up; and after 
piling it up, he yelled | at the buffaloes; but the buffalo manure did 
not move. He tried to drive the buffaloes, | but he could not move 
them. He ran back. || He went along, and came to the town. 
He went up a hill, | and he said: ‘The buffaloes have dispersed.”’ He 
shouted | his words. He said: ‘“‘The bridegroom is staying with his 
wife!’ | He meant Tree Chief by these words. (They | used to eall 
bridegrooms those who had not been married long.) || Then the people 
of the town went down when Coyote had said this. | They laughed 
at him, because the day before many buffaloes had been killed; | but 
now they did not move. The people prepared the meat | and the 
skins. Then Coyote entered his tent, | and Tree Chief lay there. 
Coyote said also || what Tree Chief had said before, when he spoke on 
the hill. 
Say it again. Don’t you know what you did | when you pushed me 
into the trap of Wolf?” | Then Tree Chief took a firebrand. || He 
wanted to kill Coyote. He might have killed him. Therefore | he 
took up the firebrand. Then Coyote was struck. | He was struck 
Tree Chief arose. He said to Coyote: | ‘What did yousay ? 
while he was running out. He was told: ‘‘We shall never meet 
again. | If you want to die, come back to me.”’ | 
That is the end of the story of Tree Chief. || He would have been 
the greatest one | if he had not fought with Coyote. | 
(g) THE END OF THE WORLD 
Now I'll finish the story of Tree | Chief’s fight with Coyote. | 
When Coyote and his friend fought, || Coyote was beaten away west- 
ward. | Coyote was being beaten. Although we do not know | the 
place where the sun goes down, there Coyote was left. | He was told: 
“You shall stay here. Don’t | go about any more through the whole 
world. Later on, at the end of the world, || ’llsee you again. I shall 
go back that way | where the sun rises. There I shall stay. When | 
the chief says that this world shall be no more, then I’ll | arise, T’ll 
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