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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 Coyote had gone out of sight.

(4.9)[9]
'Ákoo Shóͅóͅdé'a haná'anyá 'ich'óͅóͅtiná'a.
Dándásé ch'at'iná'a.
nDásé 'íńtinyá Gólijenłchiné 'íńtinyá ch'atiná'a.
Yaach'íńt'iná'a.
Shóͅóͅdé goch'iͅnńyáná'a.

Then Coyote had gone out of sight.
He kept on going farther.
Farther up the road, a Beetle was walking along the road.
He walked up to him.
Coyote stood before him.

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(4.9) Linguistic Notes

Gólijenłchiné 'beetle'. See Linguistic Note to Chiricahua text 15.1, §1.