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Rh Coyote said: "Hiya', my little son!" Fox said: | "Why did you talk, Coyote? Don't talk! Later on, | when he arrives, we shall know whose child has been killed." | Then Coyote said no more. He was just sitting there. Then | Coyote and his friend heard the noise of the hoop. || They felt glad, but they also almost cried when they heard 100 some one saying | that his child had been killed. Then there was noise of | the hoop. Coyote was told to open the door. | Then Coyote arose and opened it. | He sat down, and the hoop came rolling in. It rolled || into the tent. It came along rolling. Fox was lying 105 down. | He did not move. Then they heard some one singing, j The hoop rolled to where Fox was lying. It almost j fell down, but went rolling on to where Coyote was sitting down. | There the hoop fell down. Then they told him || that Coyote's son was dead. He fell down crying, | and said: "Hiya', my little son, my little son!" Then Young Fox arrived. | He entered the tent, and he said: "I do not know what has happened, | but I heard that he was taken, j He was seen when they lost sight of me. They said among themselves: 'Don't || kill him! Since you have lost sight of your toy, he shall | 115 become your toy.' Then I went back." |

Then Coyote and his friends lived in the tent. Coyote often said: | "Let us make war on them!" After some time | his friends said to him: "Now let us make war on them! || Probably the people are no 120 longer uneasy." Then the two friends started. | Young Fox was left alone. Because he had the toy, | he was not lonesome. Then the friends reached the town. | They did not go near. The two stopped. | When the sun was going down, they heard talking there in the town. || It was said:. "Now go out to play!" It was not | long before they 125 came out. Everything that | used to be done with the hoop when they were going to play with it was done now. | Then his son was taken out. They were all around him. | They saw that his hair was all cut. || He used to have long hair, but now he was changed. Then 130 they kicked him hard. | He started to run, and they pursued him. When they caught up with him, he was kicked again. | Then Coyote pitied him. He said: | "Let us go nearer! Let us take him back!" Fox said: | "Wait, I'll do something!" He made a sign with his head. || Then all of a sudden Young Coyote ran fast. They could not 135 overtake him. | Fox again made a sign with his head, and Young Coyote started again. | They could not catch up with him. He made a turn. | Fox made a quick sign with his head. Then Young Coyote ran their way. | Then all laughed because they could not overtake ||