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Coyote and Turtle, Mescalero Apache Text

excerpted from Chiricahua Apache Texts, with Ethnological Notes

4. Coyote and Turtle as told by Charles Smith

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Then he jumped into the water.

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'Ákoo'a tágheejiͅ yaanách'iͅiͅt'i.
Tó'iłch'áͅnáánándáyá 'inááshdóͅóͅt'i.
'Áshíͅ biͅiͅí bitsáí sit'égo dlóͅóͅ'yedó díͅíͅ'í baadasijaago díík'eh sit'égo biłbich'iͅiͅhanách'íͅjaa.
Díík'eh bidáayá bánch'íń'iͅiͅ.

Then he jumped into the water.
He went away again in a splashing of water.
And he brought back to him out [of the water] roasted deer ribs and four roasted prairie dogs.
He put all of them down before him for him.

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(4.39) Linguistic Notes

The third line of this passage is literally as follows: "And / deer / its ribs / having been roasted / prairie dogs also / four / they lying on them / all / having been roasted / he brought them back out [of the water] to him."