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come back. You, Coyote, will also | arise, and you shall come back. 
In the middle of the world || we shall meet. Then we shall shake 
hands.”’ | 
This is the very last of the story of what | the friends Tree Chief 
and Coyote did | long ago, and what they will do at the end of the 
world. | 
65. RAVEN 
Well, I'll tell you about Raven. | 
(@) THE ORIGIN OF DEATH 
There was a town. The chief spoke, and said: | ‘Everybody shall 
die twice.”’” [Everybody wished for what the chief said; | but Raven 
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did not want it because he eats || eyes. Since he was chief, his word 
was taken. | ; 
After some days the chief spoke, and said: ‘“ Let us kill | Raven’s 
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children!” They said: ‘Shoot at a grass figure, 
and the girls shall 
get fuel. Then you shall shoot | Raven’s son, and you shall chop a 
tree down and make it fall on || his daughter.’”” Now they shot at the 
grass figure, and Raven’s son was shot. | The girls chopped down a 
tree; and when the tree was about | to fall, Raven’s daughter was 
thrown under it. | They talked, and said: “ Raven’s son has been 
shot,” | and they said: “A tree fell || on Raven’s daughter.”’ Raven 
said: ‘‘Now they shall die twice.” | He was told: ‘‘ You are a chief, 
and already | you have spoken.”’ | 
(6) WHY THE ANT HAS A THIN WAIST 
Then, when they were talking, Ant tightened his belt | in order to 
bury the dead. He almost || cut himself in two, and was small after 
that. | 
(c) RAVEN HIDES THE GAME 
Then Raven could not succeed. He had had two children. Then | 
Raven was angry. He hid himself and hid all | the buffaloes. (Both) 
were lost, | Raven and the game. All went on, but he was lost. || It 
was not known where Raven had gone. It was known | that he had 
done it. For a long time they were hungry. After a long time | 
they all became thin. | 
Raven thought: ‘Let me go to the town to see if | they are starv- 
ing.” Then he started. He transformed himself into a raven. 
He flew || away and flew back to the town. He flew about above 
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