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Coyote and Owl, Mescalero Apache Text

excerpted from Chiricahua Apache Texts, with Ethnological Notes

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2. Coyote and Owl as told by Charles Smith
  
Ethnological Notes Morris Opler

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Then:

(2.30)
'Ákoo'a:
"Díńń ch'ahí nzhóní shábá'áͅlá. 'Áshíͅ nałdaa'iͅiͅdáͅ. 'Áíbíká nch'iͅiͅhoͅoͅka."
goołndiná'a. Niishjaahaastiͅiͅń.
Then:
"Make a good hat for these [two] for me. Then we will eat with you. That is why we have come to yon,"
said Old man Owl to him.
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