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Rh arrived. She was glad, for the tent was not burned. It happened thus several days. | Then Coyote had completed the ditch. At night | Coyote thought: To-morrow I shall steal them." || It was night. 185 On the following day they went again to pick berries. | They were not afraid now, because their child was clever. | Then Coyote began to drive the salmon and the fawns. | The salmon reached the large river. At once he knocked down | the fawn. Then he burned || the 190 tent. He threw the fawn into the fire. Then ] he started. The friends had gone to pick berries. One of them | looked back and saw their tent on fire. She said : | Oh, I almost knew what^would happen to the child ! | Look how our tent looks ! It is burning.'' Then || they 195 weM back. When they arrived there, they saw that their tent was gone. I It was all burned, and there in the middle the child's bones | were burning. He was burned. They did not know that they wiere the fawn's | bones. They cried. The one went to get food. | She looked, and there were no more fawns. The other one went there, || and she also saw that there were no more salmon, | and she saw the 2OO water running down in a stream to the wide river. | She looked, &nd she saw that Coyote was driving their food | which he had stolen from them. Then they said to each other: "Oh, that child was Coyote, | he who robbed us!" Then || they pursued him. The one ran along, 205 and gave birth to a child. | The other one was running along, and also gave birth to a child. They did not know | that he had slept with two. They said to Coyote, | they said: "Coyote, oh, leave us some- thing to eat for this child ! There are | children."' Coyote shook his blanket, and a few turned back. || He said to the others, "Hayo ho !" 210 Then | he drove all of them. Then the friends cried because | Coyote had stolen their food. (e) COYOTE MEETS THE FISHERMAN WOLVERENE Then Coyote went along. He saw people fishing. | He said to the Salmon: "Wait until I seethe people!" || Then the Salmon stopped. 215 Coyote went there, | and arrived where they were dancing. Some girls saw him; | and when he arrived, a boy was told by | his elder sisters: "Go to your father and tell him that | a manitou has ar- rived." The boy went back. When he came there, he said to his father: || "A manitou has arrived. My elder sister told me to come." 22O Wolverene said: | "How does he look?" The boy said: | "He has a white bl:inket, and t: il feathers of the flicker are pinned to it. | He is striped." Wolverene said : "That is [ Coyote. He is not straight.