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speared | and were taken up. Then they assembled and ate them. In the evening | Coyote sang again. He said to the Sahnon: | In the evening three of you shall go into the trap." Then Coyote slept. I In the momii^ he said to his wife: Tell your father || to go 270 down to his trap." Sparrow went there, and saw | three salmon. He went ashore, spoke, and said: | "Spear the three salmon in the trap." They went down | and speared them. Then they assembled and ate them. Then they had almost | enough to eat, because there were three salmon. In the evening || Coyote went down and said to 275 the Salmon: " Now | fiU up the fish trap. In the morning he said to his wife, I ' Tell your father to go down early to his trap.' " In the morn- ing I Sparrow went down. He saw that the fish trap was full at | that place. Then he went ashore, spoke, and said: "Boys, || take your 280 spears and spear and throw | ashore the sahnon. They are almost breaking the trap. | There are plenty of them." Then they went down. It was seen that the sahnon almost | broke it. Then all the men speared them, | and the women carried them ashore. Then || they 285 were cut. Then they were plenty, and they were dried. | Coyote staid there. He already had two children. |

He said: "Now I'll go to some other i)lace." Then he left his wife. I When Coyote was about to leave, he put himself across the water. He said to the | Salmon: "Don't go this way. You shall go II the other way." 'Now I have told the whole story.

Well, I will tell you a story of what happened long ago in this world. They were staying at a certain place a long time ago, | and sunmiers and winters were long. |

There was a town. It was winter time. A man || named Coyote 5 went into the tent of an old woman, who gave him | food. The old woman was named Squirrel. Squirrel said: | "There is no more food, land it is along time | before spring will come. What shall I do ? There is no more food." Coyote said: | "Well, cry. Then if the people come in and ask you, || 'Why do you cry?' don't answer, iq When they have all'spoken to you, | I shall say to you, ' Do you say | that your food will be gone long before spring comes? ' Then you will say, I 'Yes!' " Then Coyote went out. |

Squirrel thought that what he had said was good. || Then she ^5

cried. She cried aloud. The peoples in the town said: | "What is