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blanket of the other girl. Early the other || girl arose. The plank 140 was with her. | Then the girls said to each other: "Oh, you must have eaten all the food that was left!" | They said: "We did not eat it. How does it happen ? " | Coyote thought : "Oh, say : ' May you not be Coyote?' | Throw (the dish) into the water!" Then the girls said: "Oh, may you not be || Coyote?" and they threw it into the water. 146 Coyote swam on and | drifted along.

He saw two girls picking berries. Coyote went ashore | and trans- formed himself into a baby. He went there. | A small child fell from his body, and a girl saw him. || The girl said : " There is a child. | 150 It is nice. Let us run for it, and the one who gets there first shall have it for her child!" | Then the friends ran for it. One was nameid Night Hawk, | the other was named Snipe.^[1] Night Hawk reached there first | and took the child. She said: "We will both own it." II Then she carried the child back. She was glad | to have 155 the child. She was going to raise the boy; | and when he was big, he was to hunt. Then they got home and | staid there. In the morning | she did not pick berries, and also the following day | she did not pick berries. She was prevented by her child. || It was heavy. She 160 could not carry him on her back, and | he could not stay alone. Therefore she could not pick berries. | Coyote saw what the one was doing. She put her hands behind | the tent and knocked down salmon. Then she ate with him. | In the evening the other one put her hand back behind the tent. She knocked at it, || and she took out 165 a fawn. He ate with her. | That was a nice way. For many days the two girls | did not go to pick berries on account of that child. | When it was dark, he staid with the one ; | and when it was dark again, he staid with the other one. (The girls) said to each other: || "There are not many berries left for us to eat. Let us | see whether 170 the boy can put out a fire if our home should be on fire." | The one then started a fire, and said | to the child: "Now put out the fire." The child | took a stick and put out the fire. Then the two girls said : || "He is clever. He may stay here. | Let us go and pick berries." 175 Then they started to pick berries. Coyote looked | there at the back of the tent, and he saw a lake | there wliich was filled with salmon. He went to the other side and looked | behind the tent, and he saw that it was full of fawns. Then || he thought : "Let me steal them." | 180

He dug a ditch along toward the river. In the evening | his mother