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raccoon down and the old woman killed it and one of the dogs. Then 
she. said, ‘‘ There is another raccoon in the tree.’’ He pulled out 
another raccoon and threw it down. She killed it and another one of 
his dogs. Hesaw another raccoon in the tree and he pulled it out, and 
again she killed it and another dog. He continued to pull raccoons 
out of the tree until he had pulled six, and each time the old woman 
killed the raccoon and another dog. Asthe boy was about to pull the 
seventh raccoon out, it spoke to him and said: ‘‘ Boy, when you get me 
out, throw me just as far as you can. I will run away and the old 
woman will chase me. While she is chasing me, you must jump and 
run home as fast as possible. She has already killed all of your dogs, 
and she will kill you next. She is a witch, and is the one who has 
killed all of your brothers. You must run from her.’’ ‘The boy said 
that he would, and then he threw the raccoon just as far as he could. 
While the old woman was chasing it he jumped out of the tree and 
started torun home. The old woman killed the raccoon, then returned 
to the tree, and when she found the boy gone she was angry, and 
started after him as fast as she could run, but he was too far ahead, 
and she could not catch him. 
When the boy reached home he told his mother all that had happened. 
That night he had a strange dream, in which he dreamed that he met 
Coyote, and Coyote told him that his brothers were not dead, but were 
with some bad people who made them work so hard that they would 
soon die if they did not get away, and Coyote promised to help him 
rescue his brothers. The next morning he told his mother his dream, 
and she told him that his dream would probably come true. ‘That very 
afternoon the boy went out to hunt, and while he was walking along 
he met a man, and the man told him the same thing that the man in 
the dream had told him. ‘The boy returned to his home and the man 
went on through the timber until he met Flying Squirrel. He was one 
of the bad people’s slaves and had to work for them. Coyote, for he 
was the man, began to talk to Squirrel and asked him about the bad 
people. Squirrel told him that the bad people made slaves of all of the 
people that they could catch alive, and that they ate all that they killed. 
Coyote asked about the six brothers, and Squirrel told Coyote that they 
were slaves like himself and could not get away, but had to work. 
Coyote said that he would like to help them, and that he thought he 
could, for he was very cunning and had a good deal of power. Squirrel 
told Coyote if he could only find some way to kill the wicked chief 
that there would be no more trouble. Coyote said that he thought he 
could plan to kill him if he could only get to him, but that he lived 
across the river and had no way of getting across. Flying Squirrel 
