Julia Starritt: "How the Rube Family Was Named" (1957)

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[1]	yítha áraar apxantínihich ukyavíichvihitihanik.
	A certain Indian once worked for a white man.

[2]	xás ithâan kuméeshyaav vúra puxích tupáthrih, pa'íshaha tu'uh.
	And one winter it rained hard, the water rose.

[3]	xás paapxantínihich upíip " chími kâam vâarami peevapithváram.
	And the white man said, "Go upriver to the store!

[4]	sáran sii káru yúfish káru asúxiim káru rope."
	Go get nails and salt and sugar and rope!"

[5]	xás ta'ítam uvâaramaheen.
	So the Indian went.

[6]	xás uthvuyâanati ípa kóo kunípeerat " ikvan."
	And he was naming all that they had told him to buy.

[7]	xás u'uum, pathúufak.
	And he got to the creek.

[8]	yána vúra kêech tu'uh.
	He saw that it had risen high.

[9]	xás ufáathkar, xás vúra kúnish tu'ay, pa'íshaha.
	Then he waded in, but he was sort of afraid of the water.

[10]	xás chímiva ukyívish.
	And suddenly he fell down.

[11]	xás koovúra tupipshinvárihva péethvuy, ípa kunípeerat " ikvan."
	And he forgot all the names that they had told him to buy.

[12]	xás yícheech vúra kích upikrôok " rúup."
	And he only remembered one thing, "rúup."

[13]	xás poo'árihroov kích poopíti " rúup, rúup."
	So as he went upriver he was saying nothing but "rúup, rúup."

[14]	xás u'uum, papeevapithváram.
	Then he arrived at the store.

[15]	xás kunipêer " fâat panu'ákiheesh."
	And they said to him, "What can we give you?"

[16]	" rúup, rúup."
	"rúup, rúup."

[17]	xás paapxantínihich upíip " Oh, rope!"
	And the white man (the storekeeper) said, "Oh, rope!"

[18]	xás u'êe pá'aan.
	And he gave him the rope.

[19]	xás papeevapíthvaan upíip " fâat kúna."
	And the storekeeper said, "What else?"

[20]	xás upíip " man'áta, tá punapikrôokara."
	And he said, "I don’t know, I've forgotten."

[21]	xás vaa vúra upíthvuuymath rúup.
	So they named him Rube.

[22]	xás payêem vaa vúra mukun'íthvuy rúup.
	And now (his descendants') name is Rube.