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1. " ee, ishávaas, ôok tá ni'áhoo.
   "Ee, nephew, I have come.
   
   Source: Mrs. Bennett, "Screech Owl and Coyote" (ALK_14-35) | read full text
2. " ée, if ôok asayâamach utháaniv."
   "Oh, what a nice looking rock lying here."
   
   Source: Phoebe Maddux, "How Western Yellow-Bellied Racer was Transformed" (JPH_KIM-10) | read full text
3. " ée, aaf kuna upákat."
   "Oh, it tastes like manure."
   
   Source: Phoebe Maddux, "How Western Yellow-Bellied Racer was Transformed" (JPH_KIM-10) | read full text
4. ée, if páy ahupyâamachich."
   "Oh, what nice wood this is!"
   
   Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Coyote Starts for Klamath Lakes, East Roasted Grasshoppers, Floats Down River and Marries Two Girls" (JPH_KT-05) | read full text
5. xás u'íhivrik: "ee."
   Then she answered: "Yes!"
   
   Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Coyote Starts for Klamath Lakes, East Roasted Grasshoppers, Floats Down River and Marries Two Girls" (JPH_KT-05) | read full text
6. kári xás ee! vúra vaa u'áhootih, vúra tá kâarim.
   And oh! he was walking that way, he was really bad off.
   
   Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text
7. " ee! ninithívthaaneen, ninithívthaaneen."
   "Oh, my country, my country!"
   
   Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Homecoming" (second telling) (WB_KL-02a) | read full text
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8. xás uxúti " eee! naa nipêesh ' pihnêefich ôok uvúrayvutiheen.'
   And he thought, "Ah, I'll bet Coyote has been around here!
   
   Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text
9. " eee!" xás uxúti pihnêefich " yáas naa nixúti ' tá nishíinvar.'"
   "Ah," Coyote thought then, "now I think I've drowned."
   
   Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text
10. xás tá kunpíip " eee! naa nipêesh ' pihnêefich.'
    And they said, "Ah, I'll bet it's Coyote!
    
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text
11. kári xás axmáy vúra pa'asiktávaan upiip " yáxa, ee! yáxa ithyáruk."
    Then suddenly one woman said, "Look, oh look across-river!"
    
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote as Doctor" (WB_KL-11) | read full text
12. kári xás " ee! aaf pani'áamtih, aaf pani'áamtih, tUtUtUtU!"
    Then (he said), "Oh, it's excrement that I'm eating, it's excrement that I'm eating, tUtUtUtU!"
    
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote Eats His Own Excrement" (WB_KL-14) | read full text
13. ee! axmáy áxup úkyiimnuprih.
    Oh! Suddenly dressed deer meat fell in.
    
    Source: Mamie Offield, "How Deer Meat Was Lost and Regained" (WB_KL-33) | read full text
14. xás kári " ee!" kári xás kunpiip, " uum apsunmúnukich tukitaxríharahitih."
    And (people) said, "Oh, Racer is being unfaithful!"
    
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Adulterers Discovered" (WB_KL-39) | read full text
15. ee! yánava áchkuun.
    Well, he saw Swamp Robin.
    
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Mockingbird and Swamp Robin" (WB_KL-43) | read full text
16. púyava xás upiip, " ee! chími núpuunvi."
    And he said, "Well, let's rest!"
    
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Mockingbird and Swamp Robin" (WB_KL-43) | read full text