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without harm. But the Coyote had been told not to mind anything they 
should say, so he killed them as he went along. He still kept on travel- 
ing, for he had power to travel a long distance without giving out. 
On the way home the Coyote thought to himself: “Well, there 
are not two ways about my getting to be a great chief. I have recov- 
ered the lost child,” and when he arrived he met Spider-Man. Spider- 
Man took the poor, suffering child, threw him in the water and called 
the child once, and up it came out of the water, floating. Spider-Man 
took him out of the water and told the Coyote to go and bring one of 
his children that was about the same age as the chief’s child. The 
Coyote went up to his place, entered his home, called the old woman, 
saying: “Sister, I have returned from the hardest trip I have ever had 
in my life. I got the lost child and brought it home, and am now 
going to take one of our children to where Spider-Man is.” So he 
took one of his children to where the chief’s child was. Spider-Man 
took the Coyote’s child and threw it into the water and called it again, 
and out it came. This made the Coyote’s child like the chief’s child, so 
that they could not be distinguished the one from the other. They 
went home, stopping at Spider-Man’s place, where no one but the 
Coyote had ever been. The Coyote was given that same power, so that 
no one might see that he was living there. He was very proud of him- 
self, for what he had done and what he was going to have when the 
rest of the people should arrive home. When he was given all these 
powers he was commanded not to have anything to do with women, for 
Spider-Man was a single man himself. 
Time passed, and the people began to come back home from the 
hunt. The Coyote was told to go to the chief’s place and to tell the 
chief that he had recovered his child, and that the child was living with 
his folks. He was also told that the chief was going to send for the 
child; that he (the Coyote) would be given a home by the chief’s people, 
and would live well thereafter; that he was to remember that his own 
wife was not to be his wife any more, or any one’s else. So, late in 
the evening, when the people arrived at their homes, the Coyote went 
toward the village, and there met some one whom he asked to show him 
the place where strangers went when visiting the place. He was told 
to go to the largest grass lodge in the middle of the village. He walked 
on until he reached the place, and entered. The chief and others 
were surprised to see such a wonderful man as this. When he reached 
the place he was told that there was sadness among the people, and 
it would not be pleasant for visitors to be around for a while; that 
there was a child that had been carried away before they. went on the 
