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everybody had gone to sleep, all the warriors thought that they would 
go to the tipi, but the Coyote told the men that he would remain outside, 
to look out for them. When everybody was asleep these men entered 
the place where they had located the enemy with the red hair. The Turtle 
went right straight to the place where ‘this man was sleeping, cut his 
throat, and neck, too, and took his scalp. The Turtle then called his 
partners, who were going from one bed to another. They went out, 
and the Coyote joined them again. He had been scared nearly to death 
when they were inside the tipi. They started home, but before they 
were outside of the village the Turtle began to sing victory songs, and 
he woke everybody up. The people began to find out that there had 
been enemies in the village. All of the people in the village then woke 
up and found that enemies had killed one of their chiefs. They com- 
menced to pursue the war-party, and overtook them just a little outside 
of the village. Four of the war-party hid themselves in the grass, while 
these enemies pursued the Coyote. ‘They overtook the Coyote and 
killed him, but could not find any of his partners, so that the enemy 
returned to their home. The war-party then began to call one another 
and finally came together again. They went on until they came to a 
hill and there they found the Coyote lying dead, where the enemy had 
overtaken him and killed him. They found the Coyote full of arrow 
wounds, and badly cut up. The Turtle put the Coyote on his feet and 
called to him to rise, saving that he had slept too soundly. The Coyote 
arose, rubbed his eyes and ‘said to these men that he had been sound 
asleep. The Turtle then told the Coyote he knew that he was a coward 
and could not stand it to be with such warriors and brave men as they 
were. 
It was a good many days before he arrived home with the scalp 
and delivered it to the chief. The Turtle was bound to get the chief’s 
daughter, because he had the scalp that she called for. The chief’s 
daughter was then given the scalp that the Turtle had obtained, and the 
Turtle was given this woman for his wife. This was a ‘surprise to every 
able-bodied man who could travel faster than the Turtle, but who could 
not get the scalp required. The Turtle had not lived with this woman 
very long when the chief called forth all the men and women, and the 
children to his tipi, to hear what the Turtle had to say. When every- 
body was present the Turtle told the people that all he wanted to show 
them was where such a scalp could be taken; that it was pretty hard for 
a man to get; that had it not been for him a good many men would 
still be sending out war-parties to secure the scalp he had taken, which 
might cost some of them their lives; that for their sake he had saved 
