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where my head lay. Let us be friends." Coyote said: " We will go to your wife." The two started. The two went along, and he saw his wife among a crowd. Coyote sharpened his friend's horns. Coyote said: "Now go ahead. When you run along, turn this way." The Bull went there. The Bull was seen running toward the place where Coyote was. He went past. Another Bull arrived. He shot him. Coyote killed him. The other Bull came back. He said: "Let us go to my wives." The two went. Coyote was told: "Which one will you take?" Coyote said: "Let me take the larger one." Coyote started with his wife. The two went along. He said to his wife: "Now go ahead; go up the valley and go across." Coyote started. He went to the valley. He staid there. He saw his wife coming. He broke a stick when his wife was coming. He hit her. It did not enter her body. He laughed at his wife. He said to her:
kiue*. huts!m"ala'n*e- swu'timo*. qake'ine* sk/n*kuts hultslma^- lay. We shall be friends." He said Coyote: "We will xala'e's tdnamu*"ne*s. tslmak/kine*. qa'nak/kine'ts n'^^'pxane* go to thy wife." They two started. They two went along and he saw sak/mnalih'sine* tdnamu"e's. la^^smq !aqle*'xane* swu'^e's sk^'n*- among a crowd his wife. He sharpened his horns again his friend's Coy- ku'ts. qake'ine* sk^'n'ku'ts taxa Wwu na* hmslaqakaxa"mk- ote. He said Coyote: "Now go ahead here when you turn." tse'k. qaoxa'xe* ni'lsc'k. n'upxaua'pse* ni'lse'ksts mityaxaua'pse* He went the bull. He was seen the bull running laqaka'xe* yaqaosaqa'pske* sk^'n'kuts. laqayaqaha'xe*. wa'xe* coming toward where was Coyote. He went past. He arrived nao'klwe* ni'Ise*k. mi'txaue*. n'dwa'n'e* sk/n*ku'ts. lawa'xe* one bull. He shot it. He killed it Coyote. He went back nao'klwe* ni'lse*k. qake^ne* hultslina^xala'e's kat^Ina'mu. qao- one bull. He said: "Let us go my wife." They xak/kiue*. qakih'lne* sk^'n*ku*ts kaa k^^nts^ltso'uk^a't. qa- t wo went. He was told Coyote: "Which will you take?" He ke'iUe* sk^'n'ku'ts na* kwi'lqa hutsdtsuk^a'te*. tslma'xe* said Coyote: "This large one let me take!" He started sk^'n'ku'ts n'asma'lne* t^Inamu"e*s. qa'nak^'kine*. qak/lne* tA- Coyote two together his wife. They two went along. He said to his namu"e*s ta'xa b'n'u qo* hank!a*m'na'ke* hmtsqanalwatla'xe*. wife: "Now go ahead, that the valley you will go through across." tslma'xe* sk/n-ku*ts. qaoxa'xe* qOuS aa'k!a*m/n*a's. qaosa- He started Coyote. He went thereto the valley. He staid qa'ane*. n'w'pxane* ska'se* t^lnamu"e*s. yaqe'ite- aVk^ts wa'se* there. He saw coming his wife. He broke a stick coming tdnamu"e-s. mi'txane*. qataklo'une*. n'umatsna'ate* t^lnamue*s. his wife. He ihot her. It did not go in. He laughed at her his wife.