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the Wind in a loud voice, to give thanks. His weariness left him and 
he started out to find Deer. He traveled all day, but could not find 
him. At night he came toa camp, where hestole a buffalo robe. He 
put the robe over him and then went on to look for Deer. Down by 
the river he thought he saw him. He went another way and slipped 
round a bend in the river until he came close to Deer. He reached out 
his hands to grab him and said, as he caught hold of him: ‘‘I have 
you; I thought you said I could not get you.’’ To his surprise he 
found that he did not have Deer, but the man whose robe he had stolen. 
The man took Coyote home with him and made him work for him and 
his sister, and treated him very cruelly, because he had stolen his robe. 
One time while the man was out hunting, Coyote went into the lodge 
and said to the sister in a loud, angry voice: ‘‘ Pack up your clothes ; 
I am going to take you to my home as prisoner, and you will have to 
work there as I have worked here. Your brother is killed and now 
you must come with me.’’ The girl was frightened and obeyed. They 
started toward Coyote’s home. Coyote went behind the girl witha 
long stick in his hand, and whenever she stopped or fell he hit her with 
the stick. The girl went on, though she was so tired and frightened 
that she could hardly move, and as she went she prayed that her brother 
was not dead, but would come and help her. 
In the meantime the man returned home and found his sister and 
Coyote gone. He knew at once what had happened and started after 
them and soon caught up withthem ; for he had the power to travel as 
fast as the fleetest arrow, though Coyote did not know it. When he 
was almost up with them he shot an arrow in front of his sister. She 
saw it and knew that her brother was coming to help her; then she 
began to cry the more from joy. Coyote whipped her for crying and 
made her travel faster. The mansaw Coyote strike his sister and heard 
the cruel words that he spoke to her. He went ona hill and then shot 
another arrow. Coyote looked up and saw him and became frightened 
even more than the girl had been. He dropped his stick and ran to the 
girl and begged her to let him carry her bundle of clothing, and begged 
her not tocry. ‘The man came down from the hill and asked Coyote 
where he was going with his sister. Coyote said that the people had 
treated them so badly he had decided to take the girl to another village, 
where the people would be kind to her. He said that he was helping 
her along the way and had been kind to her. The brother of the girl 
did not believe Coyote, for he had seen his treatment of her. He told 
Coyote to take the bundle of clothes and put it on his back; then he 
told his sister to sit on the bundle. He put his bow-string through 
Coyote’s mouth and gave the ends to the girl. She sawed the strings 
