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Rh aside too, also the skin; | put the coagulated blood into it and put it aside." Then | the woman did as her husband told her. |

Coyote saw what his friend and his sister-in-law were doing, ǁ and he told his wife to do the same. She carried it | in her blanket. When evening came, Coyote's wife did the same | as Tree Chief's wife was | doing. |

Early in the morning Tree Chief and his wife arose. ǁ Then they ate. He said to his wife: | "Where is the pemmican? I'll eat." She said to him: "Is there any | pemmican?" He laughed, and said to her: "You brought it in. | There it is." His wife said to him: "Is that pemmican? | Those were guts." He said to her: "Bring it out and look at it." ǁ Then the woman pulled it out slowly. It was heavy. | She looked at it, and it had turned into pemmican. There were no more | buffalo guts. Then it was eaten. He said to her: "Pull out your blanket." | She said to him: "Is there one? There was one, but it was all bloody." | He said to her: "Pull it out and look at it." The woman took ǁ the bloody blanket. It was no more that way. | It had become a new one with beautiful stripes. He said to his wife: | "Look also at the other things we put aside." The woman looked | at the skin which she had put aside. It had become | a tanned skin with a painting in the middle, although it had been full of sores ǁ with bad hair, for it had been an old | buffalo cow. Its fur was very good. |

After Coyote had watched what his friend was doing, | he did the same, but nothing happened. | His wife's blanket remained stiff, and the skin that she had put aside ǁ remained rawhide, and the stomach which she had put aside | remained as before. It was buffalo dung. His wife cried, | because he had given her trouble. Tree Chief said to his sister-in-law: | "Don't cry! Put them back again." Then the | woman, the wife of Coyote, put back again her ǁ own blanket, the rawhide, and the guts, | but Golden Eagle did just the same as Tree Chief. | He did the same to him. He was glad | when he saw what his son-in-law had done, | but his other son-in-law made him ashamed. ǁ He was ashamed on account of what he had done. |

After a while, Tree Chief told his sister-in-law: | "Look again at the things you have put aside. Eat | pemmican with the children." The woman looked at it, and it had turned | into pemmican. Coyote had not been able to do it. And there ǁ were also two blankets. She looked at them, and both were good. Then | Tree Chief finished his good work. |