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Coyote Misses Real Rabbit, Chiricahua Apache Text

excerpted from Chiricahua Apache Texts, with Ethnological Notes

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13. Coyote Misses Real Rabbit as told by Sam Kenoi

13.1.

He was walking [along] a road.

13.2.

That one was a real Rabbit but he paid no attention to it.

13.3.

A little further on, he looked back.

13.4.

Then he cursed himself:

13.5.

He ran after the Rabbit who had jumped up.

13.6.

Then the Rabbit spoke thus:

13.7.

Then Coyote also spoke thus:

Linguistic Notes by Harry Hoijer

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Coyote Misses Real Rabbit, Chiricahua Apache Text

excerpted from Chiricahua Apache Texts, with Ethnological Notes

Hoijer, Harry

University of Chicago Press

Chicago

1938