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they look terrible. When one of them arrives, he will say, | 'I am glad, now my children have something to eat."" || He knew that 85 Ya.uk'e',ka'm was chief. | Therefore he said that he was glad that his children killed him (?). Now it began to rain. | The Thunderbird made a noise. Then they saw the Thunderbird flying home. | Thun- derbird said: "I am glad, now | I have something to eat for my chil- dren." (I forgot something. || Coyote was told that when the Thun- 90 derbird would say he was glad, | he would say, "Who is tired from walking? I shall take the marrow out of his leg." | Coyote was told: "When the Thunderbird says this to us, | get up and say, 'I don't get tired, I don't get tired; my younger brother always gets tired because || he is shaped badly."") Then Coyote sat down again. | 95 Ya.uk'e,ka'm was told: "Stretch your leg this way, I will pull out | the marrow with my mouth." Then Ya.uk'e',ka'm stretched out his leg. Then | Thunderbird put his mouth there, and it was just as if Ya.uke'ika'm had no more marrow. | Then (Ya.uk'e',ka'm) threw his spear and stabbed || the Thunderbird with it in the nape of the 100 neck. He killed the Thunderbird, who | broke his nest while he was falling down. Then | he was there. The two children were told: "When your father comes, and if he says, 'Why is our nest bro- ken?' | tell him: 'That happened when they came up.' The two 105 manitous were sitting down in the place that was broken. It was not long before it began to rain again, and the Thunderbird made a noise again. Then the Thunderbird flew back; and this one | spoke in the same way as the other one had spoken. The Thunderbird said: "Who | is tired from walking? I shall pull out the marrow from his leg." Coyote arose || and said this. He said the same as before. He 110 danced and said: | "I don't get tired from walking, I don't get tired from walking; my younger brother always gets tired | because he is badly shaped." Then Coyote sat down again. | Thunderbird said: "Stretch your leg this way, I will pull the marrow out of it." | Ya.- uk'e',ka m stretched out his leg || the way he had done before, and 115 his marrow was as it had been before. | He threw his spear at him and killed him. | 999 Then he said to the two children: "Now fly down with us." | One of the children said: "Sit down on my back." | Then Ya.uk'e'¡ka'm sat on the back of the one. || His friend was told: "You shall make 120 a noise." Then | the young Thunderbird flew away. He flew upward. | Coyote was looking on. He flew way up. Then | Coyote shouted, and he began to come down. | He flew by. Then he flew down to the land. Coyote was told: || "Now it is your turn. Sit on me,