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18. natpogamaga'ga'inri kirti'to- sir / dik"o*'vav avi'cda'k&'t 



he went seeking him. Then saw him ; water at the edge he seated was. 



19. sa'pinir'k'a't ho' ga,kia m 'cu su # 'di.6-R piiva'ka'tot 



Said guard that cheese water in now thrown was. 



20. ave'ma'cicbiiik-a't natpnvam'a a'ni.iha'iira natpuamago'i 



He verv hungry was. Then he now "I break bit Then he now 



thought, will". fell. 



21. kuti'cgamp6pba"i"m' amuho'dor avichi'mdat gaVri 



Then thus drowned. There from it coming was the child. 



22. natpdVtosaD nat'pova'bo'k* ki'amitha' natpovatot 



Then he drew Then he now home his toward. Then he now 



it out. carried told her 



23. gado"irD kuvihidcrrda kuti'ciamvo'mgok bai'do'ko'D 



the mother that cook it shall. Then merely arose Tail his with 



his and went. 



24. natpua'girG ticiamt6"t-oa v p6voa nata'morrir. 



then he now Merelv wall in struck. Then he lied. 



struck. 



TRANSLATION 34 



Fox was in a zapote tree when Opossum happened along. The 

 latter said, "Brother, I have never eaten zapotes; how are they 

 eaten?"' "You must lie mouth-upward so that I can throw you one". 

 So Fox threw a zapote at him and killed him. Soon the vulture 

 arrived and revived him. "Now go find him and kill him !" 



Opossum found him seated at the edge of a cliff. "Do not kill 

 me!" he said. "There hangs a tompiate full of money! Lower 

 yourself down and bring it up !" So he let himself down and 

 seized it. The wasps stung him. Then Opossum cried, "Let me 

 down!" Fox lot go and he was killed. Then the vulture came 

 and revived him. "Now go and find him!" 



Soon he found him lying on his back at the foot of a cliff. 

 "Now surely I will kill you!" "No! Do not kill me or all the 

 angels will fall! I am holding up the blue heaven!" The tree 

 was in flower (and < >p< >ssimi believed the bees to be angels). 

 Then Pox let go and jumped far aside. 



Continually Opossum sought him and finally found him seated 

 at the wtiter's edge. Fox said lie was guarding the cheese that 

 wtis lying in the water. (But it was the reflection of the moon). 



•» Cf. Journal of American Folk Lore, Vol. XXVII, No. CIV, 1014, p. 160 



