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Rh went out. | He called Duck and said to him: "Duck, ǁ I am cold." Duck went out and hit | the chief with his head. He said: "Stop, | stop! It hurts me. Something must be on your head." | Duck did not mind it. Then the chief fell down. | Duck had killed him. Thus three were killed by Duck and his uncle ǁ —Crane and his wife were killed, | and the chief was killed. They went there and looked, and there was | Ya.uk$u$e′$i$ka·m. They knew he had arrived. They talked to one another, | and they said to one another: "Ya.uk$u$e′$i$ka·m has arrived. He has come back to life. | That is the reason why Duck and his parents have done so, for they were angry." Then ǁ they were more afraid of Ya.uk$u$e′$i$ka·m. He was a great chief | in the town. |

Now I have finished telling what | Ya.uk$u$e′$i$ka·m did long ago.

Coyote lived in a tent. His wife was Dog. It was | winter time. Dog and her children with her went out | for fuel. There was a stump. She chopped it down. For a long time | a deer used to have a hole there in the stump that Dog chopped down. ǁ The deer was hit when it fell. There was its hole. It was broken. | The deer jumped out quickly. There was snow on the ground, and Dog followed the deer. | She caught up with it and caught it by the tail. She said to her children: | "Go and get your parent. He shall shoot it." | The two children started to run. One was named ǁ Misqolo′wum; the other one was named Q!ota′ptsek!. Misqolo′wum | was a boy; Q!ota′ptsek! was a girl. They arrived | at their tent and spoke to their father. They said: "Mother says you should come | and take the deer." Coyote ran out quickly. | He split a little tree and he broke in two a bush. ǁ He went in again and pulled off quickly his hair band. | He went there. He spilled rose hips, which were all the food that they had. | He ate them. Then he made a bow, and he quickly made two arrows | but of the bush. Then he started. He got there, and his wife stood there | holding the tail. He had snowshoes on his feet. There was much snow where ǁ his wife was holding the deer. First he tramped down the snow in front of her, and | said to her: "Now let go!" Then Dog | let go of the deer. The deer was running in the deep snow. Coyote shot. | Just then (the deer) broke through the snow and fell. The arrow went over