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Rh Coyote said: | "I'll sleep here again." He lay down. Then he knew that Sun was asleep. | It was not long before it was night. Then he took the | drying frame. He went out and started. He thought: I "Let me go far away." Then he started. He went along. II He ran. Then in the morning he thought | that he was far 285 away. He lay down. He was tired. Then at once he fell asleep. | He continued to sleep. Then he was awakened by the noise of talk- ing. I He arose, and there he was where he had started from. He took the I drying frame. He said : "What is he trying to do with me?" and hung it up. || His father-in-law, Sun, said to him: "Why are you | 290 doing that ? Do you want to go out of this my tent ? | If you start here from the inside of my tent, when you he down there, and if you I think this will be your clothing, then take it and go. | Don't stop at night. Keep on walking || a whole day and a whole night, until 295 morning. | Do not lie down the whole day and the whole night. | Don't stop anywhere until the next night. | Then walk through that night until the morning. Just at noon | you may sit down, if you think that you will sleep. Then it will be good. || You will be out of my 300 tent. Then I shall not take it back." Now I have told you all. Coyote went along. There was a hill. He went up, and saw | Grizzly Bear eating there. Coyote thought: "I'll play with him." | He said to him: "Grizzly Bear, Short Tail!" | He hid behind (the hill). Grizzly Bear heard Coyote talking, calling him bad names, || Grizzly Bear thought: "You are sure to say that again." | Grizzly 5 Bear did not look. After a while Coyote looked again | at Grizzly Bear. He said to him: "Grizzly Bear, Left-handed One!" Then | Grizzly Bear knew that Coyote was on the hill calling him. | He pre- tended to eat again. He was looking without letting Coyote see it. || It 10 was not long before Coyote looked over the hill at Grizzly Bear. | He said to him: "Grizzly Bear, Small Eyes!" Coyote hid again. | Then Grizzly Bear ran. He pursued Coyote. | It was not long before he looked over the hill again to say something | to Grizzly Bear.

Coyote said: "Grizzly Bear" He stopped quickly in his

speech. || Coyote saw that Grizzly Bear was already coming right 15 up to him. I Then Coyote began to run away. | He was pursued by Grizzly Bear. Coyote said: "Things that want to catch each other j do not run fast together." Then Coyote left him behind. | Coyote was going along. He turned in a circle and got up to Grizzly Bear from behind. || Grizzly Bear was going along in the tracks of Coyote. 20 Coyote heard him | panting. He was getting near him. | He thought