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I am starving.' His wife laughed at him. | She said to him: "You are always like that. || You always disobey me. I told you not to go 195 in. A man who comes to this town is not given anything to eat. | At a later time, another day, when they do so again, then he may go in. | Then he is given enough to eat. Meat has been brought in | for us to eat. I have boiled it. It is there. || Eat." Then Coyote began to 200 eat. Then he was satiated and slept. Early Coyote awoke. | He heard a noise. People were saying: “Hu, hu, | hu!" Coyote said when he heard it (the same as) what they said. | He said: "Hu, hu, hu! let me kill two bucks || and red (?) an old grizzly bear with seven young 205 ones." | They heard what Coyote was saying. It was frightful | what he said. "Two bucks and seven | grizzly bears are too heavy. Those will be nine. The people of that town don't carry meat for one another." | Then they started, and Coyote || started, too. They were 210 going along. The chief sat down. Then | behind where the chief was sitting a row of men started. | Coyote got there. He went past the place where the chief was sitting. Farther ahead he sat down. The people thought: | "Coyote is doing wrong. Only those who are skillful || may sit at the head. Why does Coyote do so?" | Then they all ar- 215 rived. Sun said: "Go on | to the end of this mountain. Those who go quickly shall do it." | Coyote was meant. Because he had done 80, therefore they said it. | Then the chief arose, and Coyote also|| arose. Then the chief started. | He started a fire. He carried pitch- 220 wood and he started a fire. | They looked at Coyote. He did not carry pitchwood. | They thought Sun would be the only one who would light a fire. | Then Coyote put flicker feathers on his moccasins. || He ran. They looked at him; | and wherever he stepped, a fire started. | 225 The flicker did so. Then Coyote scared them. | Then they looked at Chief Sun. He had not gone far | before Coyote was way over there. Then the deer drivers started || and went along. Coyote was seen 230 coming back already. | IIe went around in a circle. | The chief had not gone far when Coyote went the same way again. Then a deer was shot where the fire was, in the circle of fire. Coyote went along, | and saw two bucks. He killed both of them. He went along, || and he 235 saw seven grizzly bears-an old one and young ones. He killed them all and started back. The men had nothing, and Coyote saw them |