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Rh Young Coyote. Even the fastest runners could not catch up 140 with him. | Therefore they laughed about it. Young Coyote came along. | They could not catch up with him at all. Then he came to | where the parents were. Fox and his friend arose. | Then it was known that he had taken back his son. They told one another: || "Don't look at Coyote and his friend! They are bad. | They might 145 kill us." Then the friends started back. IIiya! they all | cried, because they had no toy in that town. | Coyote and his friend went on. They arrived at home, and | they were glad. ||

Then the friends lived in their tent. They had the toy. | The Salmon 150 heard that the friends | Coyote and Fox had the hoop. He started to gamble with them. | He thought he would win the hoop. Salmon was a good | gambler, therefore they started to gamble. Long ago || it 155 was known that Coyote was a good gambler, but he did not keep it up. | Therefore they tried their luck with him; but Fox never gambled. | They thought he was a bad gambler. Then Salmon arrived, | traveling by canoe. They were young men, and one (woman) their sister | went with them. When they arrived, (Salmon) said to Coyote and his friend: "Let us||play!" Coyote said: "What shall we play?" | 160 He was told: "The hiding game (lehal)." Coyote said: | "Well, let us gamble!" Then they made a fire outside, | and they began to gamble. Coyote said: "Don't | let him gamble! Your son and my son shall be partners." Then || they played. It was not long before 165 Coyote lost the game; and | he played again, and Coyote lost. Then | he lost everything. Young Fox and his uncle had lost | the hoop. That is what they wanted to get. Coyote sat down, | and said to Young Fox: "Go to your father || and tell him to give me the thing 170 striped crosswise." Young Fox went. | He said to his father: "Uncle | says you shall give him the thing striped crosswise." Fox thought: "What | does he mean? He did not give me anything. Why should he say that?" He said | to his son: "Go to him and ask him what he means." || He went back, and Coyote was told: "My father says he 175 doesn't know | what you mean." Coyote said: "Oh, how should | he not know it ? Go to him and tell him not | to keep it from me because he likes it." The child went back and came to his father. | He said to him: "He says you should not keep it back because you like it, but give it to him, || even if you should like it very much. He wants 180 to bet with it." Then Fox knew (what it was). | Then he gave it to