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Coyote and Quail, Mescalero Apache Text

excerpted from Chiricahua Apache Texts, with Ethnological Notes

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6. Coyote and Quail as told by Horace Torres

6.1.

Coyote, trotting along a road saw Quail and her children walking along the road.

6.2.

Then Coyote spoke thus to her:

6.3.

"They follow me around so well because of this rope which is stretched between them."

6.4.

"All right, I too will do so."

6.5.

Then, pushing a yucca [rope] through the throats of his children, he strung that yucca between their throats.

Linguistic Notes by Harry Hoijer

Ethnological Notes Morris Opler

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"All right, I too will do so."

(6.4)

"'Áíyaͅ', shídó 'ághá'ishłá."

Ma'yeí goołndíná'a.

"All right, I too will do so."

Coyote said to her.