Mamie Offield: "The Devil Who Died Laughing" (1957)

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[1]	táay	vúra	kunpâakuhinaati	má'	pâakuhiv
	much	Intensive	they.were.picking.acorns	uphill	acorn.picking.time

A lot of people were picking acorns in the mountains, in acorn season.

[2]	kári	xás	tá	kunpavyíihship	uum	koovúra
	then	then	PERF	they.went.back.home	3.SG	all

Then they all went home.

[3]	yícheech	vúra	kích	kári	muhrôoha	xákaan
	alone	Intensive	only	then	his.wife	with.(one.person)

Only one man and his wife were still (there).

[4]	kári	xás	upiip	tîi	kanítkaanvan
	then	then	he.said	let...	let.me.go.spear.fish!

And he said, "Let me go spear fish!"

[5]	kári	xás	chámuxich	úykar
	then	then	sucker	he.caught.it

And he caught a sucker.

[6]	kári	xás	pa'asiktávaan	upiip	chími	kanthimnûupi
	then	then	the.woman	she.said	soon	let.me.roast.it!

And the woman said, "Let me roast it!"

[7]	kári	xás	uthímnup	pachámuxich
	then	then	she.roasted.it	the.sucker

So she roasted the sucker.

[8]	kári	xás	páfaan	uyhúkurishuk
	then	then	the.guts	she.took.the.guts.out

And she took out the guts.

[9]	kári	xás	pamukun'ikrívraam	usúruruprinahiti	yíthakan
	then	then	their.house	a.hole.was.through.it	in.one.place

And there was a hole through (the wall of) their house at one place.

[10]	kári	xás	vaa	káan	u'ákithrupri	páfaan
	then	then	so	there	she.threw.them.in.through	the.guts

And she threw the guts there.

[11]	hínupa	vaa	káan	utnûuprihti	yítha	pa'apurúvaan
	surprise	so	there	he.was.looking.through	one	the.devil

There was a certain devil peeking through there.

[12]	hínupa	yúpyaach	tu'ákithtir
	surprise	his.very.eye	she.hit.it.(by.throwing.a.soft.mass)

There she threw it smack in his eye.

[13]	yítha	pa'apurúvaan	úksah
	one	the.devil	he.laughed

And a certain devil (accompanying the first one) laughed.

[14]	kári	xás	vúra	iksháh	u'ahvákir
	then	then	Intensive	laugh	he.died.of

And he died laughing.

[15]	imáan	umáh	utháaniv	vúra	kári	úksaahtih	káruma	tu'ívaheen
	tomorrow	he.saw.him	he.was.lying.(there)	Intensive	then	he.was.laughing	in.fact	he.had.died

The next day (the first devil) saw him, he was lying (there), he was still laughing; the fact was, he had died.

[16]	púyava	yítha	xás	uum	upasúpiichva
	you.see	one	then	3.SG	he.told.the.story

So (that) one told the story.