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Rh along. | While he was being carried there, he said to the girls: "I will sing, | I will dance." |

When the two girls arrived, they said: | "The old woman also wants to dance." Snipe said: || "Well, she also shall dance." Then 80 they danced. | Coyote knew what was done. | The old woman was told: "Now you sing!" Then, | while the dancing was going on, they sang — |


 * Try to get good luck out of Coyote's, Coyote's eyes!" ||

The old woman sang that which was said. She also | said so. She 35 was not an old woman; she was Coyote. There was no | light where they were dancing. The two girls were told: | "Let the old woman stand up. Lead her. She is poor." | Then the two girls made their grandmother stand up. || They danced. They tried hard, because 90 the old woman was singing. | They were glad. They danced for a longtime. | Then the old woman said : "Let go what you sing about." | They carried the eyes of Coyote. Then Coyote carried | his eyes. They were dancing about. || Then it was noticed that (the voice) of 95 the old woman was going down. | She was almost out of breath. Almost they could hear her no more. | Then she was heard singing by the doorway. Then she was not heard any more. | They stopped, and did not dance any more. They said: | "Bring a light! Look for the old woman! She may have died of fatigue." || Light was made, 100 and they looked for the old woman. Then they saw the skin lying there. | The old woman was gone. | Only her skin remained. They heard Coyote some distance away. He laughed, | and they said: "It was Coyote, it was not the old woman, | who danced. Coyote killed her. It was only || her skin." | 105

Now I have told you what Coyote did to | his eyes.

I'll tell you how Coyote made the | Deer.|

There was a town. Long ago the Deer used to bite the people. | They never went out hunting. Only the men who were skillful || went hunting. Those who. were unskillful were bitten by the Deer. | There was that town. They were hungry because the Deer was bad. | Coyote thought: "Let me go hunting!" He was told: | "Don't go hunting! The Deer might bite you." Coyote said: "Oh, |I'll work my manitou power. The Deer shall not bite me." || Coyote started.