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him. I "He must mean the partridge tail." Then he took out the partridge | tail and gave it to him. He said to him: "I think he meant just this. | He must have meant it." (The boy) took it back and gave it to Coyote. || He was told: "My father says you must 186 have meant this." | Coyote said: "What else should I mean?" | Fox said: "Don't gamble for a while. I shall go." | Coyote was told: "My father said you should wait for him. | He is coming." Then Fox got ready. II It was not long before Coyote shouted, saying: "You | 190 let me wait. I ought to have back already what I have lost." Fox arrived there, | and said t o Young Coyote : "Let us be partners "Then | he went there, and they gambled. He moved his hands in the game and sang. | Ho sang thus:

"Whenever I am pointed out, the gambling bone will disappear."|

And he sang also another song. He sang thus: |

"If I lose, they'll die." |

It was not long before he began to win. Salmon bet again, | They gambled, and Fox won another game. Young Coyote was his part- ner. II While Young Fox and Coyote themselves had lost, | now Sal- 200 mon lost everything. Salmon said: | "You ought to stake against our sister." | Fox said: "It is well, since you say so." | They staked, and Salmon lost again. They had nothing else to stake. || He started 205 home, and cried because he had lost his younger sister. | Fox said: "She shall be your son's wife. My son j is still too young." Then Coyote had a daughter-in-law. | She married his son.

The friends lived together. Then Young Coyote had a child. || At 210 once the woman began to cry. She had a canoe. | Because Fox had won, therefore they had | a canoe. The woman got ready at once. Coyote saw | that his daughter-in-law was going home. Then | Coyote also got ready to accompany his son where || he was going. Fox 215 thought: "There are bad places in that | river. Let me go along. Coyote and his son might die." | Then Fox also got ready. | The woman went aboard the canoe. She was told: | "Wait; I'll get aboard." Then the woman cried. || Fox said to his son: "You stay 220 here; I'll go along. | Coyote and his son might be killed." Then | Fox went aboard, and the canoe started. | The woman was seated in the