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he would catch up with him on the right side. Then Coyote jumped along his side. | Then he jumped around on the left side of Grizzly Bear. | Coyote went past. Grizzly Bear was going along, and II Coyote did the same again. Grizzly Bear thought: "Now I'll catch I Coyote. I'll bite him." Then Coyote jumped along on the other side. | Then Grizzly Bear turned to the right side quickly | to catch him, but again he could not catch him. Grizzly Bear went along I a short distance, and saw Coyote. He was going along tired. || He overtook him. Then Coyote was looking from one side to the other. I His tongue was loUing. There was a big stone. Coyote thought : Now | Grizzly Bear will bite me. He chased him around that stone. | Then Grizzly Bear was about to catch him, and | Coyote was out of breath. Coyote fell down there. He lay there || for a time, and thought: "Why doesn't Grizzly Bear bite me? " | Then he felt something on his hands. He looked at ij, and saw ] that he had his hands in the horns of a buflpalo bull. He looked at the Grizzly Bear. | He was standing by his feet. (Coyote) stood up quickly | and ran after him. He spoke to him in the way a bull bellows, and Coyote said: ||"Fff!" Then Coyote knew that (Grizzly Bear) was afraid of him. | He pursued him. The way Grizzly Bear had done, that way | Coyote did to him. He also did the same. | Grizzly Bear looked from side to side over his shoulders. There was a river. He started to swim. Coyote put out | one of his hands with the horn where Grizzly Bear was swimming ahead. || He hit him with it. He hit his backside, and he put out the other one | and with it also he hit his backside. | Grizzly Bear swam across there. Coyote sat down. When Grizzly Bear was across, | he looked back. Coyote was sitting down. Coyote said: | "Grizzly Bear, you were going to bite me. || It should be once that that Grizzly Bear bit Coyote." Grizzly Bear did not speak. He was afraid. | It is true, Coyote was never bitten by Grizzly Bear, and | he was helped by his friend Buffalo Bull. Enough. |

It is finished, |


58. Coyote and Fox

Well, I'll tell you about the friends. Coyote and | Fox — what they, did long ago. |

(a) Young Coyote and Young Fox Steal the Hoop

There were the friends. The one had a young son, and the other one also had a young son. | Coyote sent out his son in the evening, and said to him: || "Look for manitou power." Then Young Coyote went out at night. | The people were not yet asleep when he came back into the tent. When | Fox knew that his friend was asleep, he told I his son to go and look for manitou power. Then Young