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nephew: “All right, if you think the fun is more for your advantage 
than for mine, I will go along with you to see the game.” The Coyote 
began to think that there must be some danger. He said to his uncle, 
“What do you mean?” The Thunderbird said: ‘“You will see, and you 
will wish that you had never begged me to go along with you to the 
hand-game.” ‘They entered the place where the hand-game was go- 
ing on. When they were seen the Coyote was in the lead, and felt 
proud because his uncle was there. In the lodges where they were 
having the hand-game, the door faced east, and upon entering the lodge 
the people were called to the wet part of the lodge, where they saw a 
sort of high hump, and it was covered up. The Thunderbird was asked 
to sit down, which he did, and the Coyote felt proud because he thought 
he and his uncle were being treated with distinction. The game went 
on, and was being played by some stranger who had come there and 
was asked to play. When the stranger lost the game the playing came 
to an end and the men began to leave the place, but the Thunderbird 
thought he had better wait until everybody had left the lodge before 
he should leave. So when everybody had left he started to rise, but 
failed, for he had been stuck to the hump in the presence of everybody. 
The thing began to move, and when it moved he found that it was 
some sort of a water-monster that was under him, and it moved toward 
a small lake that the people knew to be deep. It moved slowly, and the 
Coyote followed after to see what was going to become of his uncle. 
Wherever the Thunderbird went he always carried his bow and four 
arrows, his bow painted black, two of his arrows painted black and 
two blood color, and his bow had a sort of red tassel at the upper end. 
He told his nephew that as long as he should see the tassel he might 
know that his uncle was still alive, but when it was no longer in sight 
he might know that he was drowned. There were a great many of the 
people who followed the monster to the shore to see what it was 
going to do. The Coyote was right by the side of the monster, talking 
to his uncle, and saying: ‘You have great powers, why do you not 
free yourself from the monster? You can do it.’ But the Coyote 
was then told that it was all his fault that he had lost his uncle. The 
Coyote would then cry out fearfully for his uncle, but there were a 
great many people who mocked the Coyote and were glad to see his 
uncle die. The monster reached the lake and went into the water. He 
went to the bottom of the lake instead of swimming, and they kept 
going down and down, until only the top of the monster’s head could 
be seen, then the water went over the Thunderbird’s head. Then the 
bow began to sink until the tassel on the end of the bow could scarcely 
