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may lose our sister by bringing some one else.”’ Hoof-Shield again went 
home and fed the people. 
One day as he was getting ready to go to the place again, a friend 
came up to him and said, ‘‘My brother, where do you go? Let me go 
with you. My children are starving.’’ Hoof-Shield told the other Coy- 
ote to stay at home; but he begged so hard that Hoof-Shield finally 
gave in and took him with him. They went:acertain distance, and then 
Hoof-Shield said: ‘‘Do you now smell gigas The other Coyote 
snuffed and said: ‘‘Yes, I smell burnt meat.’’ Hoof-Shield then said 
that the smell came from afar off, but that it was from the place where 
they were going 
They went on until at last they came to the tipi. The girl told them 
that her brothers were scattered out and that they would not be home 
for some time. ‘But,’ said Hoof-Shield, ‘‘we are hungry and we want 
something to eat. Take pity on us. Let us swing you. My brother 
will kill the Buffalo while I take you into the tipi.”” The girl consented. 
She climbed into the lariat swing and they swung her. She traveled 
far into the sky towards the west and disappeared. Hoof-Shield would 
say, ‘‘Do you see her?’”’ The other Coyote would look and say, “‘No, 
I can not see her.’’ Then Hoof-Shield would say, ‘‘I see her. She looks 
very small.’’ When Hoof-Shield saw clouds of dust he said, “‘I see the 
girl coming with the Buffalo.”” The two stood watching until they saw 
Buffalo coming. They were so many and so thick that the two Coyotes 
became scared and ran into the tipi. The Buffalo ran past the tipi, then 
circled and ran back toward the west with the girl. Hoof-Shield then 
said, ‘‘We have done wrong; let us run away, for she has brothers who are 
wonderful and they may kill us.’”’ They ran away and returned to the 
village. 
Ina day or so Hoof-Shield went again to the girl’s tipi. Hestayed at 
a distance, for he did not want the brothers to know that he had lost the 
girl. He saw the birds flying in different directions, and so he knew that 
they were hunting for her. When the brothers came into the tipi, they 
found their sister gone. Then the Eagles sent the Magpie to tell all the 
birds to come to the tipi. The birds came. Some were in the tipi and 
others flew around the tipi, so that they looked like a big black thing in 
the sky. The birds were told that they must find the girl, whether she 
was in the sky or upon the earth or under the ground. The birds all 
flew in different directions, and towards evening they came back. Hoof- 
Shield went down and entered the tipi. When he entered, all the birds 
turned upon him and said, ‘‘Have you seen our sister?” and ‘‘ Where is 
