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Rh Don't look at him." The boy went back. || Wlien he came back, he 226 said to his sisters: "Father said, 'That is | Coyote. Don't look at him. I He is not straight.' " They continued to dance, and Coyote started on. | He said to the Salmon: "Go ahead! Wolverene does not want us." J The chief of that town was named Wolverene. ||

Coyote went along. He came to a town. | The chief of that town 230 was named Sparrow. He said to | the Salmon: "Wait! I'll go to the people." | Coyote went there, and he saw the girls dancing. | When they saw him, they said to a boy : || "Go to father and tell him 235 that a manitou has arrived." | The boy started; and when he ar- rived at his father's, | he said to him: "A person has arrived." His father said to him: "How | does he look?" He said to him: "His blanket is white, and he has tail feathers | of the flicker pinned to it. He is striped." Then Sparrow said: || "Go back to your sisters and 240 tell them to take him. It is | Coyote. Sometimes he carries food." Then the boy went back. | Wliou he arrived, he said to his sisters: "That is Coyote. | Your father says you should take him. Some- times he carries food." | Then the girls took Coyote's hand. || They 245 took him by the arms and diinced with him; and while they danced, | they sang, "This is Coyote; we will marry him." After | they had danced, they went there, (-oyote went back to the river, | and said to the Salmon: "They want us here." |

Then they staid there. In the evening Coyote sang. || He said: 250 "It would look strange (?). | Although they have a trap, they are starving. They ought to be saved (?)." | Then Coyote slept. Early he said to the Salmon: | "One of you shall go into the trap." Early | he said to his wife, 'Tell your father to go to his trap.'" || The woman said so to her father. She said: "Go to the water, | to 255 your trap." Sparrow started and went down, and he saw one | sal-mon in it. Then he went ashore and spoke, | and said: "Take the salmon ashore. There is one in the trap." | Then it was speared. They assembled and ate it. || In the evening Coyote sang again, he 260 said to the Sahnon: | "In the evening two of you shall go into the trap." I In the morning he said to his wife, ' Tell your father to go down I to his trap.' " Sparrow went there, and he saw the sahnon in the trap. | He went ashore, spoke, and said: "Go and spear || the 265 sahnon in the trap." Then they went to the water. The two were