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aside too, also the skin; | put the coagulated blood into it and put itaside." Then | the woman did as her husband told her. |

Coyote saw what his friend and his sister-in-law were doing, ǁ and 390he told his wife to do the same. She carried it | in her blanket.When evening came, Coyote's wife did the same | as Tree Chief'swife was | doing. |

Early in the morning Tree Chief and his wife arose. ǁ Then they 395ate. He said to his wife: | "Where is the pemmican? I'll eat." Shesaid to him: "Is there any | pemmican?" He laughed, and said toher: "You brought it in. | There it is." His wife said to him: "Isthat pemmican? | Those were guts." He said to her: "Bring it outand look at it." ǁ Then the woman pulled it out slowly. It was 400heavy. | She looked at it, and it had turned into pemmican. Therewere no more | buffalo guts. Then it was eaten. He said to her:"Pull out your blanket." | She said to him: "Is there one? Therewas one, but it was all bloody." | He said to her: "Pull it out andlook at it." The woman took ǁ the bloody blanket. It was no more 405that way. | It had become a new one with beautiful stripes. He saidto his wife: | "Look also at the other things we put aside." Thewoman looked | at the skin which she had put aside. It had become |a tanned skin with a painting in the middle, although it had beenfull of sores ǁ with bad hair, for it had been an old | buffalo cow. 410Its fur was very good. |

After Coyote had watched what his friend was doing, | he did thesame, but nothing happened. | His wife's blanket remained stiff, andthe skin that she had put aside ǁ remained rawhide, and the stomachwhich she had put aside | remained as before. It was buffalo dung. 415His wife cried, | because he had given her trouble. Tree Chief said tohis sister-in-law: | "Don't cry! Put them back again." Then the |woman, the wife of Coyote, put back again her ǁ own blanket, therawhide, and the guts, | but Golden Eagle did just the same as Tree 420Chief. | He did the same to him. He was glad | when he saw whathis son-in-law had done, | but his other son-in-law made himashamed. ǁ He was ashamed on account of what he had done. |

After a while, Tree Chief told his sister-in-law: | "Look again at 425the things you have put aside. Eat | pemmican with the children."The woman looked at it, and it had turned | into pemmican. Coyotehad not been able to do it. And there ǁ were also two blankets.She looked at them, and both were good. Then | Tree Chief finished 430his good work. |