Mrs. Bennett: "Screech Owl and Coyote" (1903)

Note: The first paragraph of this story is repeated three or four times, because the events it describes are repeated in the story.

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[1]	ipasnáhvaanich káan úkrii.
	Pygmy Owl lived there.

[2]	kúkuum imáan tu'ákunvar.
	Again in the morning [the next day] he went hunting.

[3]	kári xás púufich tóo ykar.
	Then he killed a deer.

[4]	xás sáruk tóo thyúrufak ástiip.
	Then he dragged it downhill to the riverbank.

[5]	xás muvêeshurak tupikniivtákishnihach.
	Then he just sat back down on top of its horns.

[6]	xás papúufich tóo kpúuhvarak.
	Then he swam the deer downriver.

[7]	xás tóo thyúruripaa.
	Then he dragged it ashore.

[8]	xás tóo sfir.
	Then he skinned it.

[9]	kári xás káan áraar tóo kmárihivrik.
	Then he met a man coming there.

[10]	áraar pamu'áav ápap u'ávas-hunihva.
	One side of the man's face was a spring (flowing) down.

[11]	xás ápap upírishhunihva.
	One side was plants (hanging) down.

[12]	kári xás papúufich tu'êetheep.
	Then he (the man) took the deer away from him.

[13]	xás pa'únuhich kich tupáthih.
	Then he threw only the kidney to him.

[14]	xás tóo pvâaram.
	Then he (Pygmy Owl) went home.

[15]	xás tóo mnish pa'únuhich.
	Then he cooked the kidney.

[16]	xás tu'áv.
	Then he ate it.

[17]	kúkuum imáan tupákunvar.
	The next day, he went hunting again. [The same episode is repeated several times.]

[18]	kári xás káan u'úum.
	Then he (Coyote) arrived there.

[19]	"ee, ishávaas, ôok tá ni'áhoo.
	"Ee, nephew, I have come.

[20]	nuykáreesh pa'îin púufich i'êethiipvutihat."
	We will kill the one who has been taking the deer from you."

[21]	kári xás pihnêefich akôor úkyav imshaxvuh'ákoor.
	Then Coyote made an axe, a (pine) gum axe.

[22]	kári xás " chími i'ákunvar."
	Then (Coyote said), "Go hunting!"

[23]	kári xás uykár papúufich.
	Then he (Pygmy Owl) killed a deer.

[24]	xás ukpúuhvarak kúkuum.
	Then he swam it down from upriver again.

[25]	kári xás uthyúruripaa.
	Then he pulled it toward land.

[26]	xás kuníshfir.
	Then they skinned it.

[27]	xás pihnêefich u'áamva paathkúrit.
	Then Coyote ate the fat.

[28]	kári xás kúkuum pa'áraar káan u'úum.
	Then the man came there again.

[29]	xás kúkuum papúufich kinpáthih pa'únuhich.
	Then again he threw the deer's kidney to them.

[30]	xás upíip, " kaneeyfúutsip."
	Then he said, "Load me up!"

[31]	kári xás pihnêefich axvâak u'áaka pa'akôora mûuk.
	Then Coyote struck him on the head with the axe.

[32]	xás kuníykar.
	Then they killed him.

[33]	xás pihnêefich upíip, " púya pay uum váah."
	Then Coyote said, "So this is all right!"

[34]	xás kunimníshkirihva.
	Then they cooked it.

[35]	kupánakanakana.
	Kupánakanakana.

[36]	ipasnáhvaanich ukúphaanik.
	Pygmy Owl did it.