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WHY THE MOSQUITO HATES SMOKE
HAT same day the children were passing the saddler's shop, where Klayukat sat on a whalebone by the door braiding a lariat. As he answered their greeting, he raised his hand to kill
a mosquito on his forehead. "You vile mosquito!" he exclaimed; "I wish I could treat you as Coyote did your ancestor."
The children stopped short. "How was that? What did Coyote do to the mosquito?" asked Antonio.
"Tecla told us about the cougar and the mosquito," interjected Juanita, "but not about the coyote. Please tell us about it, Klayukat."
"Huh! Tecla! That woman does not know about Coyote. I don't know what they have in her
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