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Rh are the Kuyo'kwe. | They are many." Then Pine Cone was left, and they went on. || He looked and saw them. The enemies looked 60 terrible. | Then he started to run. The Kuyo'kwe arrived. | The Kuyo'kwe saw that he was an old man, | and they said to one another: "Don't kill him, for he is old!" |

The Kuyo'kwe went along. Pine Cone took off his blanket || and 65 tied it with rushes.* He tied his blanket over them. He thought | the Kuyo'kwe would think it was he. They saw that it was only | his blanket. They did not look at it. The grass was standing there with the blanket on. | When he was overtaken, he took his pointed arrow | and shot the Kuyo'kwe. The point did not pierce them. The Kuyo'kwe || thought that the old man would kill them. They looked 70 at the arrow | which he shot. Then they laughed at him, because Pine Cone's arrow had not pierced them. | He shot all his arrows, and the points did not pierce | the Kuyo'kwe. They made fun | of Pine Cone, and they thought they would not kill him. || After playing with him, 75 they would go on | in the direction where Lamb Hat and his friend had gone. | After arriving at their camp, they were going to fight with them. Now, Pine Cone had one arrow | left. There was no point to it. He shot at a Kuyo'kwe, pierced him, | and killed him. When the Kuyo'kwe saw that Pine Cone || had killed one of them, they spoke 80 among themselves. "Kill him, for Pine Cone has killed one of us!" | He had no more arrows. He started to run. | He thought the Kuyo'kwe could not kill him. Then he | had no more arrows. He thought: "I must die, for | I have no more arrows." They pursued him. He thought he would be shot. || Then he moved about his bow 85 on his back. He did this for the purpose | that when the Kuyo'kwe should shoot him, he would throw off the arrows. | When they reached him, they struck him and knocked him down. Then the Kuyo'kwe cried | because Pine Cone had killed one of them. Then they started back | to their own country. ||

When Lamb Hat and his friend came back to the town, | they said: 90 "A great number of Kuyo'kwe are pursuing us. | Maybe they have killed Pine Cone." They were waiting for | the Kuyo'kwe to come. They talked among themselves: "Now let us go! | Maybe the Kuyo'- kwe do not come because they are fighting with Pine Cone." || Then 95 they went the way the two friends had come. | They arrived at the lake. They went out to it, | and they saw Pine Cone lying there and one Kuyo'kwe lying there. | Then it was known that Pine Cone had killed him. | The Kuyo'kwe had gone back when Pine Cone had killed one of them. || That lake where Pine Cone was lying is now | lOO called Pine Cone. |

Now I have told about Pine Cone.