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are the Kuyo’kwe. | They are many.’”’ Then Pine Cone was left, and 
they went on. || He looked and saw them. The enemies looked 
terrible. | Then he started to run. The Kuyo’kwe arrived. | 
The Kuyo’kwe saw that he was an old man, | and they said to one 
another: ‘Don’t kill him, for he is old!”’ | 
The Kuyo’kwe went along. Pine Cone took off his blanket || and 
tied it with rushes.t| He tied his blanket over them. He thought | 
the Kuyo’kwe would think it was he. They saw that it was only | his 
blanket. They did not look at it. The grass was standing there 
with the blanket on. | When he was overtaken, he took his pointed 
arrow | and shot the Kuyo’kwe. The point did not pierce them. The 
‘Kuyo’kwe || thought that the old man would kill them. They looked 
at the arrow | which heshot. Then they laughed at him, because Pine 
Cone’s arrow had‘not pierced them. | He shot all his arrows, and the 
points did not pierce | the Kuyo’kwe. They made fun | of Pine Cone, 
and they thought they would not kill him. || After playing with him, 
they would go on | in the direction where Lamb Hat and his friend 
had gone. | After arriving at their camp, they were going to fight with 
them. Now, Pine Cone had one arrow | left. There was no point to 
it. Heshot at a Kuyo’kwe, pierced him, | and killed him. When the 
Kuyo’kwe saw that Pine Cone || had killed one of them, they spoke 
among themselves. ‘Kill him, for Pine Cone has killed one of us!” | 
He had no more arrows. He started to run: | He thought the 
Kuyo’kwe could not kill him. Then he | had no more arrows. He 
thought: ‘I-must die, for | I have no more arrows.” They pursued 
him. He thought he would be shot. || Then he moved about his bow 
on his back. He did this for the purpose | that when the Kuyo’kwe 
should shoot him, he would throw off the arrows. | When they reached 
him, they struck him and knocked him down. Then the Kuyo’kwe 
cried | because Pine Cone had killed one of them. Then they started 
back | to their own country. | 
When Lamb Hat and his friend came back to the town, | they said: 
“A great number of Kuyo’kwe are pursuing us. | Maybe they have 
killed Pine Cone.’’ They were waiting for | the Kuyo’kwe to come. 
They talked among themselves: ‘Now let us go! | Maybe the Kuyo’- 
kwe do not come because they are fighting with Pine Cone.” || Then 
they went the way the two friends had come. | They arrived at the 
lake. They went out to it, | and they saw Pine Cone lying there and 
one Kuyo’kwe lying there. | Then it was known that Pine Cone had 
killed him. | The Kuyo’kwe had gone back when Pine Cone had 
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killed one of them. || That lake where Pine Cone was lying is now | 100 
called Pine Cone.? | 
Now I have told about Pine Cone. | 
1A brittle grass with round stems growing in the lake, s ofter than reed and larger than rushes. 
2 Alkali Lake, about 20 miles south of Windermere. 
