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Rh out again. He took it in, and again ǁ it was loaded with birds. He said to his grandmother: "Grandmother!" | The old woman looked, and there was a pile of birds. | She was told: "Prepare them. Let us eat." The old woman was glad. |

In the morning he said to his grandmother: "Is there no leg skin | of a yearling buffalo calf?" The old woman said: "There isn't any." The old man said: ǁ "Old woman, do you bring it, that there maybe some!" | The old woman looked for it. She saw some. She said to him: | "Here it is. It is a little piece." The child said: | "Give it, anyhow." The child made the netted ring. He took it out. I He opened the door a little farther. He went there. ǁ He said to his grandmother: "Cover your head with your blanket." Then he began to roll | the netted ring to the door. He said to the ring: | "Surprise them a little; the old man does not like me." | Then the netted ring rolled along there. The boy said: | "Go away, go away, go away, grandmother! The game will hook you." ǁ There was noise of running, but the old woman and the | old man would not get up. When he threw back his blanket, he saw the game | jumping into the tent. It was about to hook them. Then the | boy threw his lance and killed it. He went there. | He said to her: "Grandmother, cut it up." The old woman arose, ǁ and saw a yearling. She was glad. | Then she skinned it. He said to his grandmother: "Don't | spill the guts. Put them behind in the tent, and also the hair." | She put the coagulated blood inside. He said to her: "Grandmother, put it also behind in the tent." | Then the old woman cut it up and dried the meat. ǁ In the evening they slept. Early next morning the boy arose, | and he said: "Grandmother, I'll eat pemmican." | The old woman said: "There is no pemmican." The | child said: "You put it away. Look!" The old woman went there. | She looked at the guts. They had become pemmican. ǁ His grandmother took a piece, and also the old man, | and they all ate pemmican. In the morning the boy said: | "Grandmother, is there no edge piece of the skin of a buffalo cow?" She said: | "There is none." The old man said: "There is some; give it to the child." | She looked and found it. She said to her grandson: "There is a ǁ small piece." He said to his grandmother: "Anyway, give it to me." | She gave it to him. He made a larger netted ring, | the same as before, and he made it in the same way as the day before, when he killed | the yearling. That was his blanket. On the same day the boy | killed a cow and made a blanket for his grandmother. ǁ

Across the river from where the tent was there was the town | where Coyote was married. The youth said to | his grandmother: "Grandmother, give me pemmican; I'll draw water." | His grandmother gave him pemmican. | The youth knew already that at the