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Rh they were not perspiring any more. | When they were perspiring, they swam in the water, and they stopped perspiring. | The water was always cool. The Sun did not talk. Then, | when he went down, it was not warm. Then || he went down, and it was not hot. After 210 some time | he went down. Some time passed, and it became dark. | Then the youth came back. The chief said: | ^'The Sun is good. He shall be the Sun." The other one was told: | "You shall go at night." He was to be || the Moon. Then it was dark. Then the 215 other | young Lynx started. He went up, and | the Moon shone brightly. Almost everything could be seen | by the Moon. They could almost recognize things at a distance. | Then the Moon was good, and || he also was taken. He was to be the Moon. | 220

Early the next day Coyote started. | He was angry at the Sun, because the chief had rejected him. | He arrived at the place where the Sun rises. He staid there, | aiming at the Sun. Then, || when he 225 saw the Sun coming up, he was angry. Then (the Sun) | was angry with him, and made his arrow burn. (Coyote) saw that | his arrow was burning. Then he threw away his arrow and his | bow. Then he ran, after he had thrown away | his bow and his arrow. Then the ground began to burn, and || the fire pursued him. He saw that | the 230 fire had almost caught up with him. He saw there was a trail. | Then he lay down quickly, and his 'blanket was burned over, but | he could not burn, and the fire went by him. | Therefore the trails do not burn. || Then the two young Lynxes were Sun and Moon. | 235

It is all finished.

Now I will talk more about Ya.ukue'ika.m, how he | was killed and came to fife again. |

There was a village, and there was the tent of Ya.ukue'ika.m. | At one time the people became angry at him. He was now || a full-grown 5 man, and he knew that he would be killed. He thought: | "Don't let me be afraid. Don't let me be angry at my people, only | at those bad things that I have killed.' ' The people were afraid of him, | and did not know what to do with him. Then they killed him | and threw him into the river. The people were glad || because they had killed 10 Ya.ukue'ika.m. Then they all broke camp. | Crane was told: "You shall drag a young tree. | You shall cover our tracks." Then they started. It was | winter time, and they made tracks on the snow.