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They went on and on for several days, and finally met another man. 
This man then asked the two where they were going. They told him 
that they were going out on the war-path, and they told him why they 
were going. The man asked to join them. The two allowed him to go 
along with them, for they knew that he was brave. This person was 
the Horned-Beetle (Oskanaats). They traveled on, and on, until they 
met another person, who asked them where they were going. They told 
him where they were going, and the person asked if he could join them. 
This person was the Locust (Koskatoch). ‘They accepted him, for they 
all knew he was a brave warrior. While on their way they began to 
tell him what they were going out for. The Locust told them that it 
was easy to secure such a scalp. They then went on toward the south 
and met another person, who laughed at them and asked where they 
were going. They told him they were going out on the war-path. This 
person then asked if he could join them, but they refused to accept him, 
for 'they knew that he was a coward. When they refused to allow him 
to go along with them, this person said he was going along with them 
whether they wanted him to or not. They told ‘him that they knew he 
was a coward and that if the enemy got after them he would leave them 
behind instead of fighting for their lives. This person was the Coyote 
(Ketox). The Coyote told them that if they would let him go he would 
do the spying, for he was a fast traveler, and so they consented and the 
Coyote joined the Turtle’s command. 
They went on traveling. As soon as the Turtle knew that he was 
pretty near to the enemy’s village he sent the Coyote out spying. That 
evening the Coyote came back, bringing news about a village. They 
asked the Turtle what he thought of that. The Turtle told the men that 
he wanted to attack the whole village, but the Coyote told the Turtle 
that it was a large village and that they were too few in numbers to 
attack it. But the Turtle said that he wanted to get right in the middle 
of the village before he could do anything. The Coyote began to get 
scared at what these men were going to do. They told him they knew 
in the first place that ‘he was too big a coward to be in their war-party. 
They were close to the village that evening, and when night came they 
kept on going closer and closer, and when most of the people had gone 
to sleep they entered the village. They went from one tipi to another, 
looking for a man with red hair. Meanwhile the Coyote grew more 
frightened, for it was unsafe to be doing that. They finally succeeded 
in finding a place where there was a large tipi. One of the men looked - 
in there and saw some one who had red hair like they wanted. In this 
large tipi all of the great men were sitting up to pass the time. When 
