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Bluejay to accompany him and to have contests with these people. In the first town 
they have a diving-contest, in which Duck is matched against Beaver. According 
to Coyote’s instruction, Duck hides under a canoe and breathes through a knot hole. 
After Beaver has come up, Duck comes up too. In the second town they have a 
wrestling-match. Flicker wrestles with Kneecap and is almost defeated. Hawk 
sends his supernatural power to help Flicker. When Kneecap is almost overcome, 
73 Flicker finishes the contest alone. Ina third town they have an eating-match, which 
is won by Bluejay. Then Coyote and his friends begin to quarrel, each wanting to 
go to a different place. Coyote wants to go to swamps, Duck to lakes, Flicker to dry 
trees, Woodpecker to thick woods, Hawk to scattered trees. They separate ac- 
cordingly. 
iE 24. CovoTE AND Doa (2 versions: No. 56 and VAEU 23:167).—Coyote’s wife, Dog, 
and her two children, cut fuel. When the tree falls, a deer jumps out, which Dog 
holds. The children call Coyote to kill it. When they call him, he spills the rose 
hips on which they are living, makes a bow, and goes to shoot the deer. He tramps 
129 down the snow and tells Dog to let go of the deer. His first arrow passes over the 
deer, which breaks through the snow. The second one passes under it. The deer 
escapes. Coyote travels along on his snowshoes, and finds that they are full of shrews, 
which he roasts. Dog is carrying her daughter on her back. She sees the fire, and 
131 thinks that Coyote has killed the deer. Dog and her daughter leave Coyote and his 
son. Coyote reaches a lake and catches young beavers, which he ties to his son as 
ear ornaments. While he is away, the beavers revive, and drag the boy into the water. 
133 Coyote returns to save the boy, and kills the beavers. He gives the beaver fat to his 
son, while he eats the meat, but afterwards he exchanges meat and fat. Coyote plays 
sliding down a hill. While he is doing so, his son freezes to death.!_ On going on, he 
135 comes to a town in which he finds a woman and her child. The child knows his 
thoughts. He discovers that the child is his grandson. He rejoins his wife, the Dog. 
When the hunters return in the evening with venison, Coyote enters the tent; but 
137. they pretend not to see him, and soil his blanket. When he returns, his wife tells 
him that only hunters are allowed to take part in the evening meal. On the following 
day he joins them, and says he will kill two bucks and a grizzly bear with seven young 
ones. When they are out, Coyote sits down at the head of the line of hunters. The 
people claim that this is improper, because he has not obtained any game. The 
chief of the hunters, Sun, carries pitchwood for starting a fire. Coyote puts flicker 
feathers in his moccasin, and when he runs fire starts. He surrounds the deer with 
139 fire and kills them. The hunters say that every hunter must carry his own game. 
Coyote calls his manitous, who tell him that the hunters blow on their game to make 
it small. He does the same, and carries home seven bears and two bucks. When he 
kicks the game into the tent, it assumesits natural size. In the evening he does not 
join tne feasters until his wife tells him that he may go. In the Sun’s tent he sees a 
shield (drying-frame?), which he steals. After walking a long distance, he lies down 
141 tosleep, and on the following morning finds that he is back in the Sun’s tent. Thisis 
repeated until the Sun tells him that he must walk a whole day and a whole night 
before lying down.? 
(167) Second Version (VAEU 23).—Coyote’s wife, Dog, goes gathering wood and catches 
adeer. She sends her daughter to Coyote to kill it. Coyote has no arrows, and makes 
two. He travels slowly because the snow is deep. He tells his wife to let go of the 
(168) deer. He missesit. He tells his wife that they will pursue the deer, and asks her to 
follow. The woman packs up the tent and follows. Coyote feels that his snow- 
shoes are heavy, and finds that they are full of mice, which he fries. He gives one 
1 Blackfoot (Uhlenbeck VIKA WA 13:191). 
2 For the attempted theft see: 
Nez Percé (MAFLS 11; Mayer-Farrand 173; Spinden 186). 
Okanagon (Hill-Tout JAI 41:144). 
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