it. Then he had one more arrow, | and he shot again. Just then (the deer) stood right on the snow, and. the arrow went under it. ǁ Coyote had no more arrows. Then the deer | left, and it escaped 25 from Coyote. There stood | Dog. She was hungry. Coyote pulled off the bowstring. | He struck the deer with his bow stave. | He again used the bowstring as his hair band. Then the deer ran along. ǁ He was without a bow with which to do | anything. | 30
He said to Dog: "Take the children along." | What should his wife and his children go to get? | Dog and her children were tired. She had an ax ǁ and a hammer, with which she chopped the wood. | 35 It was left there. She went back to her house. When she came back, she looked for food, | and there were no more rose hips. She said to her children: "How does it happen that all our food is gone?" | She was told: "Our parent did it." Then | they moved camp. They were hungry because they had nothing to eat, the deer having been saved ǁ and the rose hips also having been eaten. Then 40 they had | nothing to eat. |
(b) Coyote Roasts Shrews
They started, going away. She carried her parflfèche. Q!ota′ptsek! | was on top of it. Then Coyote started, and | went the way in which the deer tracks went. Coyote went along. Then ǁ his snowshoes 45 were heavy. He looked, and saw that there were. many | shrews. Therefore his snowshoes were heavy. | He took a stick. He shook his snowshoes. There were a great many. | When he went on on his snowshoes, there were many more, and he shook them again. | There was a great pile. There was a stump. He threw it down, and ǁ it broke. He started a fire. Then he roasted the shrews. 50 There was a pile of them, | and he added more to them. Then he ate. |
Dog was going along. She walked through soft snow. | Q!ota′ptsek! said, because her mother carried her she could see well, | she said to her elder brother: "There our father is eating near a fire." ǁ (I 55 made a mistake. It was Q!ota′ptsek! who | was going along, and it was Misqolo′wum who was being carried by his mother.) He said | to his sister: "Our parent is eating by the fire." | Dog was going along. The child thought it was | the deer that his father pursued, for the stump looked red. Therefore he said so. ǁ He thought 60 the ground was bloody. They went near. | The two children talked, being happy. When they came near, | Dog looked that way. She saw that her children had told the truth. | The ground was bloody. Now they were almost there. | Dog was glad, for she was hungry. She had nothing to eat. ǁ The children did not say any more. When 65
they arrived, she looked again, and she saw that it was not | meat
