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went out. | He called Duck and said to him: "Duck, ǁ I am cold." 105Duck went out and hit | the chief with his head. He said: "Stop, |stop! It hurts me. Something must be on your head." | Duck didnot mind it. Then the chief fell down. | Duck had killed him.Thus three were killed by Duck and his uncle ǁ —Crane and his wife 110were killed, | and the chief was killed. They went there and looked,and there was | Ya.uk^ue′_ika·m. They knew he had arrived. Theytalked to one another, | and they said to one another: "Ya.uk^ue′_ika·mhas arrived. He has come back to life. | That is the reason whyDuck and his parents have done so, for they were angry." Then ǁthey were more afraid of Ya.uk^ue′_ika·m. He was a great chief | in 115the town. |

Now I have finished telling what | Ya.uk^ue′_ika·m did long ago.

Coyote lived in a tent. His wife was Dog. It was | wintertime. Dog and her children with her went out | for fuel. There wasa stump. She chopped it down. For a long time | a deer used tohave a hole there in the stump that Dog chopped down. ǁ The deer 5was hit when it fell. There was its hole. It was broken. | The deerjumped out quickly. There was snow on the ground, and Dog followedthe deer. | She caught up with it and caught it by the tail. Shesaid to her children: | "Go and get your parent. He shall shoot it." |The two children started to run. One was named ǁ Misqolo′wum; 10the other one was named Q!ota′ptsek!. Misqolo′wum | was a boy;Q!ota′ptsek! was a girl. They arrived | at their tent and spoke totheir father. They said: "Mother says you should come | and takethe deer." Coyote ran out quickly. | He split a little tree^[1] and hebroke in two a bush.^[2] ǁ He went in again and pulled off quickly his 15hair band. | He went there. He spilled rose hips, which were all thefood that they had. | He ate them. Then he made a bow, and hequickly made two arrows | but of the bush.^[2] Then he started. Hegot there, and his wife stood there | holding the tail. He had snowshoeson his feet. There was much snow where ǁ his wife was holding 20the deer. First he tramped down the snow in front of her, and |said to her: "Now let go!" Then Dog | let go of the deer. Thedeer was running in the deep snow. Coyote shot. | Just then (the

deer) broke through the snow and fell. The arrow went over