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Rh161 said to them: *' Is this what you want ? " He put it into the water. | It sank. Again they paddled, and their canoe moved right away. || They were saved. Then the crowd stopped | on the water when the 355 head of the youth sank. | Fox went on. They did not look back again. |

Then t^e one who was the father of the youth said: ''Who | will get this head of my son ? I have one more child, || a daughter. He 360 shall marry her.'' Then all the people | dived. They went into the water, but could not get it. Just at | noon Turtle — a young man called I Turtle — said: ''I'll dive. Turtle, | the animal, said to me | I should do it, because you know || Turtle is an expert diver. I'll try.'' | 365 Thus said Turtle. Then that youth said: | "I'll dive. You shall paddle back to the shore to your tents. | To-morrow, just at noon, I'll come out of the water; | then paddle back here." Then they went back. II On the following day, just at noon, they said to one another: | 370 " Turtle was to come up at this ^ime. Go back to liim." Then | they all paddled back and waited for him. Just at noon | he emerged, carrying the head of the youth. | Then he took the girl. For several days she was || his wife. For one or two days she did not talk. Then | 375 he teased her to make her talk, but she wouldn't talk with him. Then | he tickled her, and she laughed. Her mouth had a bad smell. He left her. |

Now, I have told you about the Salmon.

Well, I'll tell you about Coyote and his children | — ^what they did, a long time ago, to the Ducks. |

Coyote was going along, carrying his son. He went down to a lake. I It is named Where-they-fight-with-Broken-Pieces-of-Wood in-the-Lake. || Coyote knew that far away there were many | Ducks. 5 He was hungry for them, but had no way of getting at them. He thought: I "I'll fool the Ducks." He said to his son: ''Go on; | shout, 'O my father's brothers-in-law !'" Then the child | said what his father had told him. Then Coyote also || cried. He shouted: "O 10 my brothers-in-law! O my brothers-in-law!" Then | one Duck was swimming farther away on the water. He said | to his children: ''Wait; listen [to] what the manitous | are saying!" There were many Ducks. They Hstened | to what the manitous were crying.