off from him. Then he knew that he could kill him, and he was given || back to Flicker. It was he again.[1] Then | Flicker fought him down, 50 and that one was killed. | Thus Coyote won again in a bad manner. | He said: "Now we will go." They went, | and arrived at a town. He was told: "What do you want?" || Coyote said: "We will 55 play." He was told | somebody would play eating. Much food was prepared. | Coyote and his children were told: "Who will play?" | Bluejay said: "I'll be it." Then they went into | the tent. Bluejay sat down and || began to talk of his great-great-grandfathers, who 60 lived long ago, and | those before them. Then he ate and talked. There was a great pile | of food. He had not been talking very long before he had eaten it all. He was still hungry. | Then they won. (Coyote) said: "Enough!" They went along. |
At once they began to quarrel. Coyote said || he would take 65 them through swamps. Coyote was told: "You | may go there alone, for you like them, therefore you say so." Little Duck said: | "We will go through little lakes." He was told: | "You may go alone. You like them, therefore you say so." | Flicker said he would take them through young dry trees. || He was told: "You 70 may go there alone. You like them, therefore | you say so." Woodpecker said he would take them through | thickly wooded places. He was told: "You may go there alone. | You like them, therefore you say so." Hawk said he would | take them through places with scattered trees. Thus they quarreled. | They became 75 angry at one another and separated. That is the end. |
50. The War on the Sky[2]
There was a town. There was Muskrat's brother's widow. He thought | he would marry her. Then she refused him. He was angry and shot her. | The arrow was of a different kind. He made it in a different way, what he used for shooting her. | Then he ran away. He said to his grandmother: "—— —( ?)"[3] Then | his face 5 was torn up. Then the dead woman was discovered. | The arrow was not known. They sent for Frog, who (was in the habit of going) all I over the world. They wanted to know where that | arrow came from. Then she (Frog) went into the house where | the arrow was kept. She herself knew that it was her grandson's arrow. || She did 10 not know what to do, because it was her grandson, and she did not want to tell on him. | She spat into her hands and nodded. | They thought there must be a country in the sky, and that there must be a lake. | Some one said they would go on the warpath. One of them | was able to shoot far. He shot upward, and a noise was heard || as the point hit. Then another one shot and | hit the notch 15
of the (first) arrow. Then all of them shot, | but they did not reach
