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excerpted from Chiricahua Apache Texts, with Ethnological Notes

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(5.30)[30]

"Hó! Dényá! 'Ákaa dééyá'a. 'Íyáa 'áͅłá?"

goołndiná'a.
'Ídóí haastiͅiͅń 'át'íͅná'a.

"'Haͅh', dishndi. Doołáͅnch'iͅiͅhooshdziihát'éda."

"Ho! Where are you going! I'm going over there. What do you want?"

he said to him.
It was Mountain Lion man.

"Hurry, I said. I cannot talk to you long."

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(5.30) Linguistic Notes

'ídóí 'mountain lion'. Cf. Chir. ńdóí [See linguistic note to Chiricahua text 17.25, §1].