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Coyote and Turtle, Mescalero Apache Text

excerpted from Chiricahua Apache Texts, with Ethnological Notes

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4. Coyote and Turtle as told by Charles Smith
  
Ethnological Notes Morris Opler

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That food that Turtle had given him [and] which remained when he had eaten:

(4.41)[41]
Áí dáńí Ts'isteełń kaayíń'iͅiͅí bilahde ch'ałghałí:
"'Áíí nóͅóͅ'iͅiͅł."
biłch'indi, Shóͅóͅdé.
That food that Turtle had given him [and] which remained when he had eaten:
"You'll be taking that home."
he said to Coyote.
 
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(4.41) Linguistic Notes

bilahde 'its remains, remnants; what is left over'.

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