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hunt, and that this was the reason why the people had left the place for 
a while. They asked him the object of his visit, and the Coyote re- 
quested the chief to call his people together, for he wanted to say 
something. The chief sent ‘out a man to call all the people to come to 
his place, for there was a stranger in the village that wanted to say 
something to them. The people came to the chief’s place and were 
told to come to order, so that they might listen to what the stranger 
had to say. The Coyote was then called upon to say whatever he had 
to say. The Coyote began by saying that he was the man whom they 
had known as the Coyote. Then he commenced to tell his story—how 
these chiefs had their villages divided by the street; how one of the 
chiefs had a son, the other a daughter; how they came to be man and 
wife; how the child was born to them; how it disappeared, some evil 
person having carried the child off for the sake of mischief; how it 
happened that the chief called all the prominent men to look around 
for the child; how every one had failed to recover the child; how 
Spider-Woman, after finding the trail of the little old woman, had 
failed ; and how they were compelled to leave the village for a while. 
The Coyote then told how he remained at home and moved his family 
near the water in the timber; how he made his living by hunting and 
fishing ; how some one had taken pity on him to make him such a famous 
man as he was. He told everything that took place while the people 
were gone, and how he was sent after the child. While he was telling 
the fore part of the story the people would say, “Yes,” and “Yes.” 
But finally the people would not say a word when he began the real 
story of getting the child. It was the custom, as a sign of attention 
when any one was talking, for the people all to say, “Yes,” “Yes,” 
“Yes.” The Coyote then began the story of his life while on the way 
to the place where the child had been cairied to, telling what a hard 
time he had in pursuing the directions he had been ordered to pursue; 
what narrow escapes he had had in getting the lost child; how he suc- 
ceeded in reaching the place; how he had destroyed the evil village; 
how he returned with the child; and so he told the whole story of his 
life and that of the child’s. He ended his story by saying that his wife 
was never to be his wife any more, but that she was to be his sister 
thereafter; that the child was over to his home, and the people would 
be allowed to go and get it, and another child of his own. 
The chief at once sent forth men to bring the child. The Coyote 
told the people where he was living. When the people went out to get 
the child they failed to find the place. The Coyote knew that they 
would not find it, for he had been given power to conceal his lodge 
