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73. anika't wo*c 



T lie. All 



74. havamti'.anoi 



and they danced. 



75. to Ka.avw6*'m 



girls them with 



76. avi'bin'6'noiD 



he here me pee everv time 



gaki'da 



the town 



amti'ahii 



thpv them ate 



gaswi ma*r 



the deer 



ania , minki'aminma , 't* 



I do! mv home 7iie know 



porke nicn6"i*mkaD 



because I wish dancing did 



but 



gomho'wan 



gomxo'tiik'a 



every night 



avi'ho'mdaD 



he lausrh did. 



gancr c 



the my elder brother 



natpuva'nto't 



Then he now me said, 



77. a ii i napaxo*'pria g&hwa' n 



I, "Thnt vou recover the Juan, 



will, 



78. />ero xona ti'tubrtuktu'gia 



but then we it here eat carry 



will, 



79. ho'na nata'dak'taka 



Then that we leave will that truache 



x6''na nata'p'kinauvdipu 



then we again hunting 



will go 



sa - 'miD bavwo*'jfgaM 



tortillas beans with. 



hogana'kua*r 



para 



for 



gako'k'.on 



the crow- 



TRAXSLATION 



59 



One day I went hunting. My elder brother went with inc. J 

 can't shoot well but he knew how to shoot. He carried his rifle 

 hnt I took only my bow and arrows. At first we began looking 

 on this side of the river for two hours, but we didn't sec anything 

 but a racoon sleeping under a zapote at the water's edge and a 

 zopilote which had been killed by a coyote. Then my brother said 

 to me, "There are no deer here! Often my father who is now- 

 working in Bolanos and I hunted around here but we never found 

 anything. Let's go to the other side!" I>ut I said that it was now 

 noon. "Aren't you hungry?" "Yes, but we have no tortillas and 

 the pithayas have not yet ripened." 1 said that it was true, but I 

 knew where there was a guache tree by a spring. "Wait until 

 I return," J told him. '•] will go and get water. Gather some 

 wood for a tire for it is getting cold. If a deer appeal's, if it is 

 a female, don't shoot it." 



Then J began to walk toward the spring. On the mad I saw 

 a patio where the forefathers used to dai Here I tried to shoot 



60 This Btory was composed by the author in Spanish for the purpose of elucidating 

 certnin constructions. It was then translated by the informant, Eleno Agailar, into 

 :ano. Therefore, while nearly all of the forms mm- doubtless correct, man] of the 

 idimns can Dot be shove suspicion of foreign example 



