Alíksai! In Shupaúlavi, north of the village, is a bluff where there is
a place called Cóoyoko House (Cóoyok-ki). Here the Cóoyoko lived. One
time a Fox, who was very handsome, came along, and the Cóoyoko Uncle
(Táhaam) was sitting on the edge of the bluff when the Fox came along. The
sun had not yet risen, and the Cóoyoko was sitting and waiting to watch
the sunrise. "Come here," he said to the Fox, "come to me here." "All
right," the Fox said. and came. "Sit down, sit down with me," the
Cóoyoko said, which the Fox did. ''Now," the Cóoyoko continued, "let us have
a contest and see upon whose song the sun will rise. The one that loses
shall be killed with this knife here," which the Cóoyoko had, the Fox
said. "Yes," the Cóoyoko said, "let us have a contest." "All right," the
Fox said, "be it so. You sing first." So the Cóoyoko sang the following
little song:

To -- ishkakolitai to -- ishkakolitai
Aaaha, iiihi--

and then said to the Fox: "Now, you sing, too," whereupon the Fox sang
the following song:

Ishka! Ishka!

Hereupon the Cóoyoko repeated his song. The sun by this time was just
about to loom up. "Now you sing again," he said to the Fox, whereupon
the latter repeated his song, and when he was singing, the sun loomed
upon the horizon. So he had won the contest. "Alas!" the Cóoyoko said,
"well now, I have wanted it this way and you have beaten me. Be it so
then." The knife was lying by their side, so the Fox took it, approached
the Cóoyoko, and cut the latter's throat. And so the latter died over a
bet.