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who have captured Young Coyote. They find the people using Young Coyote in place 
of their hoop. Fox makes a sign to him, and Young Coyote runs away and makes 
his escape. 
Salmon hears about the hoop, and tries to win it by gambling with Coyote. Coyote 
and his partner Young Fox lose the hoop. Coyote sends Young Fox to Old Fox to 
borrow his partridge tail. Fox plays with Young Coyote as partner against Salmon, 
and wins back what Coyote has lost. Salmon loses his daughter, who is then married 
to Young Coyote. 
The couple have a child. They travel in their canoe to the Salmon country. Fox 
accompanies them. The woman is seated in the bow of the canoe. They reach a 
dangerous place. Fox, Coyote, and his son enter a bladder. Fox has his pipe! in 
the hole of the bladder. The canoe upsets above the falls and sinks; but they come 
up unharmed below the falls, drifting down in the bladder. The same happens at 
another place. 
When they reach the Salmon country, the woman climbs a steep precipice, on which ~ 
she hopes to kill Coyote and Fox. Fox throws tobacco on it, and they are able to 
climb it. The woman asks her elder brother to kill Fox and Coyote. He throws dog 
manure into the fire in order to suffocate them, but Fox saves them in his bladder.? 
They are sent out to fish salmon during the night. Coyote stays behind in the tent, 
and is warned not to fall asleep, because the people will kill him. He is also told to 
come out if he should see a small fire, which would indicate that Fox and Coyote were 
fighting with the Salmon people. Two old persons stand in the doorway; and when 
Coyote sees the light of the canoe getting small, he rushes out. Coyote deceives the 
old people, who kill each other with their hammers. Coyote goes aboard the canoe, 
The woman’s brother transforms himself into asalmon. A Salmon boy, who accom- 
panies them, moves his torch so that Fox shall not hit the salmon with his spear. 
The boy tells Fox to strike the salmon tail. If he should have done so, the salmon 
would have upset the canoe. Fox knows this, and strikes the stomach of the salmon. 
They cut off its head. Coyote is told not to look back. He disobeys, and the canoe 
can not be moved. The pursuers are satisfied when Fox throws the salmon head into 
the water, and the canoe moves on. 
The people are sent to dive for the salmon head, and the one who succeeds in get- 
ting it is promised the Salmon chief’s daughter. Turtle succeeds, and marries the 
girl, who refuses to.talk. When he makes her laugh by tickling her, he finds that her 
mouth has a foul smell, and he leaves her. 
26. Covore Kitts PANTHER AND LIBERATES THE SALMON (No. 60).—Coyote’s wife, 
Dog, sends him to visit Panther. He finds him engaged in making arrows, while his 
wife is cleaning skins. They refuse to give him food. He sends his wife, telling her 
that their meat is hanging close to the doorway. Panther scolds her. When she 
returns, Coyote makes a bow for himself and his son, and a hammer for his wife and 
his daughter. They attack Panther, and eventually kill him and his family. They 
skin them and throw the bodies out of the tent. : 
Coyote acts as Panther used to do: he calls the game, which appears, and which 
he shoots. Since he shoots too much, the game disappears, except two animals. 
The animals suffer, and say that they recognize that it is Coyote who has shot too 
many of them. They send Little Flathorn, who discovers the bodies of the Panthers. 
The animals make war on Coyote. They throw stones down from the mountains. 
Coyote paints himself and puts on his war dress. His wife and his children are killed 
by the stones, and finally he himself is hit. 
1 Shuswap (Teit JE 2:624). 
2 See Boas RBAE 31:808; also Blackfoot (Uhlenbeck VKAWA 13:157). 
3 Okanagon (Hill-Tout JAT 41:160). 
Shuswap (Teit JE 2:676). 
Thompson (Teit MAF LS 6:64, 11:25; JE 8:240). 
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