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Rh running by. | He had a pile of (game) what he killed. He did not know what to do with it. He said to them: "Evidently you have no game. | You ought to carry some meat home for me." He was told: "We do not || carry meat for one another." Then there was 240 nobody left, and he did not know what to do with it, | with the nine animals. At once he called his manitous. He told those whom he had called: | "Tell me what to do with my game." | They said to him: "You think that they, those who went by, killed nothing. | They blow on it and it becomes small. || Then they put it into their belts." 245 Then Coyote | blew on it, and (the game) became small. Then he put on I the seven bears and the two bucks. He ran back quickly. | They thought Coyote would not come home before night, because he had much game. | They went along, but Coyote was able to run fast. || They were not home yet before he passed them. He got home. He 250 pulled off I what he carried on his belt. He kicked it into the tent, and I it was all big again, and the nine animals were piled up there. | Then Coyote scared them again. |

In the evening they assembled again in the chief's || tent and ate 255 again. Coyote did not go in. They heard | Coyote. There were no other men in the town. | Somewhere Coyote made a noise where the women were. Coyote was afraid; | for when he had gone there the day before, he was not given anything to eat. Coyote entered | his wife's tent, and she said to him: "Why don't you go there || where 260 they are assembled to eat?" He said: "Oh, yesterday I went there, | and they made fun of me." He went to the place where they were assembled. | He went in and staid there. Then they were smok- ing. | After a long time, in the evening, they went out again. |

Where he was sitting. Coyote saw a skin-drying || frame (?) belong- 265 ing to his father-in-law. It was pretty. He thought: | "I'll steal it." Then Coyote said: "I can not go out; | I'll sleep here in this house." Then | the Sun was asleep. His father-in-law knew | what he was thinking about, that he was going to steal it. The Sun did not speak. Then, || after a while, in the evening Coyote saw that his 270 father-in-law was asleep. | He arose and took the drying frame and put it under his blanket. | He went out again, started, and went along. | He thought he was far away, and he lay down and went to sleep. | Being tired, Coyote slept there. He woke up and heard || people talking. He arose, and he saw that it was | the tent of the 275 Sun. He had gone far, but this happened because he | had taken the drying frame. He said: "Ah! | I long for this drying frame." He hung it up. Then | Coyote went out. In the evening he came in again. They were assembled there. || Then all went out again.