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and shot it over her, so that she might find the arrow. While she was 
still going she came to the place where the arrow had stuck up, and 
looked around to see if ‘ther brother ‘had returned, for, of course, she 
knew her brother’s arrows. Early-Morning-Deer-Slayer finally overtook 
his sister, and noticed that she was packing something on her back, and 
he asked what it was. She told him that it was the Coyote’s (Ketox’s) 
children; that after he had been carried off everybody believed him to 
be dead; that their father and mother had both died because they be- 
lieved their son had been killed, so she was all alone; and that the 
Coyote had taken her up and abused her and made her pack his children 
for him. FEarly-Morning-Deer-Slayer took the Coyotes and destroyed 
them. He asked his sister how she had been treated by everybody, and 
she told him that no one liked her, and that while packing the Coyote’s 
children in the evening, the Coyote would come and meet her and whip 
_her. Now they started to the place where the people had gone, and they 
saw the Coyote coming. Early-Morning-Deer-Slayer hid himself so 
that the Coyote would not see him. The Coyote met the woman and said 
that EFarly-Morning-Deer-Slayer must have been with her. The Coyote 
always abused her in this way, because he thought Early-Morning-Deer 
Slayer would never return. Early-Morning-Deer-Slayer now appeared, 
and took the straps his sister had used to pack the Coyote’s children, and 
a piece of his bow-string. He tied the straps together, and his sister got 
inside of them, and he set the Coyote to carrying his sister. He took 
the string part and put it on the Coyote’s head, which began to work 
into his head and finally split itin two. After they had killed the Coyote 
they went on again, until they got near to where the people stopped, 
coming from the west. He told his sister that there was no use of their 
living there again, and so Early-Morning-Deer-Slayer took one of his 
black arrows and shot toward the north. He shot another arrow toward 
the east, another to the south, and another to where they were. These 
arrows he commanded to be used by other generations. When Early- 
Morning-Deer-Slayer shot the arrows to the four points, each stuck 
near the edge of the village, which caused a fire to start in each of the 
four directions. In this way he destroyed his village by fire. The other 
villages still existed. Early-Morning-Deer-Slayer and his sister went 
to the woods. 
This is the reason mountain-lion can killa deer so easily. In those 
times, when Early-Morning-Deer-Slayer was living as a human being, 
the deer was prey. So these two, Early-Morning-Deer-Slayer and his 
sister, were Mountain-Lions. 
