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Coyote and the Rolling Rock, Chiricahua Apache Texts

excerpted from Chiricahua Apache Texts, with Ethnological Notes

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14. Coyote and the Rolling Rock as told by Sam Kenoi

14.1.

He was going [along] a road again.

14.2.

"So? Where is there a Rock that moves about!"

14.3.

"Do not defecate on that Rock."

14.4.

Then he spoke thus:

14.5.

Then he went over yonder.

14.6.

Then Coyote spoke thus:

14.7.

Then he ran with his very best speed.

14.8.

Then [Coyote] ran from him into a hole.

14.9.

Then Coyote licked it all off for him.

Linguistic Notes by Harry Hoijer

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Coyote and the Rolling Rock, Chiricahua Apache Texts

excerpted from Chiricahua Apache Texts, with Ethnological Notes

Hoijer, Harry

University of Chicago Press

Chicago

1938