^Bo^s^ THE CRANE MYTH TRANSLATION. Ill 



slaves." At that time Crane's tail was balf a fathom long. Coyote 

 said to him: "Look here! We will deceive her. I shall sing my con- 

 jurer's song and you will help me." They gathered i)itchwood and 

 when the house was full Coyote sang his conjurer's song. He put the 

 snake on as a headband. He said to Crane: "I will put the snake on 

 your head as a headband." Then Crane shouted; he was afraid. 

 Now Coyote sang his conjurer's song. Pour nights they remained 

 awake; on the fifth night Oq;o'xoL and her children fell asleep. Then 

 he took a digging stick - and rammed it into the ground so that only 

 the handle remained visible. He tied the hair of Oq'o'xoL and of her 

 children to the digging stick. Then they went out and lit the house. 

 Crane's tail caught fire. Then Coyote said to him: "Stay on this 

 prairie." Crane did so and the prairie caught fire. " Stay in this 

 fern." He did so and it caught fire. "Stay in this dry wood." He 

 did so and it caught fire. At last Crane's tail was wholly burnt. Then 

 Coyote thought: " Stay in the water." Thus Crane's tail was burnt. 

 Now the monster caught fire. She awoke and saw her house burning. 

 She said to her children : " Rise, Coyote will burn our house." She 

 wanted to rise, but her hair pulled her back. She and her children 

 were all burnt. 



Now Coyote and Crane went to Nix'kEla'x. They went up the 

 river to its rapids. Then they built a house. Coyote made holes iu 

 the stones and said: "Perhaps fall salmon will jump into my hole. 

 Silver-side salmon will jump into my hole. Calico salmon will jump 

 into my hole. All kinds of fish will jump into my hole." Crane made a 

 harpoon shaft and a harpoon and stood near the water. When a male 

 fall salmon or a silver- side salmon passed him, he speared them. He 

 caught many fish. Then he split them. Every day he did so. Bad 

 fall salmon and female silver-side salmon jumped into Co^'ote's hole. 

 Sometimes a good one would jump into it. Now their house was full 

 offish. The dry salmon of Crane was fat. When Coyote looked up 

 his salmon was all grey and no tat was on it. Coyote thought : " I will 

 kill him and take his dry salmon." Now he sang his conjurer's song 

 and Crane helped him. Coyote had a large baton. Crane stretched 

 out his neck when he helped Coyote. Then he struck at his neck, but 

 Crane bent it. Coyote was ashamed because he had missed him. Crane 

 put all his dry fish into a basket. So did Coyote. They were angry 

 with one another. Crane and Coyote were angry. Crane carried his 

 dry salmon on his back. He came back several times until he had 

 carried them all. Coyote, however, was too lazy to carry them on his 

 back. He placed all those fish in a row. The trail led across the hill 

 to Nix'kEla'x. Coyote thought : "I shall try to drive them." He put 

 a roe into his quiver which he hung over his shoulder. Then he 

 drove his fish. Crane had already gone down the river. The trail went 

 a little down hill when it approached the river. Now Coyote drove the 

 baskets in which his fish were. When they came near the water, they 



