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ya^'xkiduwa'!" Ina e'tikihe'di etuxa'. Aki'duwaxi' kida' o'^'ni' 



untie me!" Sun said that to him they say. Going to one side was going back 



Tce'tkana'. Pa'si ha''' i%a^' ko psdehi' ko uksa'ki Tce'tkana'[-di]. 



Rabbit. Stooped and cord (the knife the cut it Rabbit, 



and low- ob.) (with) 



ered his 

 head 



Ina' kuwo' dedi' etuxa'. Tcetkana' asoHi'wa'nihiya' hi'^' adatctka', 



Sun up above went they say. Rabbit between the shoulders hair was scorched, 



InV e'tuko°'ni. Ta'^hi'" kide'di Tcetkana'. "A'tcitci'+! ku^u"^', 



Sun did that way. Ran went home Rabbit. "Ouch! O grand- 



mother 



25 ya'nkataxnixti'," edi' etuxa' Tce'tkana[-di']. '*Kode'ha°, nyiSkado'di 



I am burned severely," said they say Rabbit. "Alas! my grandson 



he 



de' a'taxnixti'," edi' etuxa' Tcetkana' ku%ri''' ko. Ehe'da". 



this is burned severely," said they say Rabbit his grand- the. So far. 



she mother 



NOTES 



As stated, this myth is from the Omaha, which the author told to 

 Betsy Joe and Maria Johnson, her daughter, two Biloxi women, in 

 February, 1892, in order to obtain the Biloxi equivalents for each 

 sentence of the Omaha version. After gaining this text, the author 

 was able, with the aid of Bankston eTohnson (in addition to the two 

 women), to obtain two Biloxi myths. The first line can begin with 

 £di\ "Behold," or, "Once upon a time." 



I. ti xyaphi {=ati xyapka). Perhaps the initial a was omitted 

 because the preceding word, Mnd^jpa^ ended in a. Ktihando'^^ i. e., 

 Mi liande d^. 



8. ya^xkito^ni o'^kne. The Sun had passed there long before the 

 arrival of the Rabbit. Had he just passed, the Rabbit might have 

 said, "?/<*"' cckito'^'ni kne' ^ 



9. xehenke, an unusual contraction of xehehunke (xeJie). 



II. nya^ni {iya^). 



15. £di^ Inako dusi [o^xa] etuxa. First dictated without "6»"a;a." 

 The author thinks that it should read, " dusi' d^' kne,'''' as the capture of 

 the Sun occurred only a short time before the Rabbit reached the 

 trap. ' ' Dusi' o^'xa " would imply that he had been caught long before. 



15. Ta^hi^xti Mde., etc. The frequent omission of connecting 

 words will be noticed. Expressed in full, the. sentences read, Ta^hi^xti' 

 Mde' etuxa' ; He!ya^ kl'di-ha'^ ku^lciTya'^' hutlki' etuxa! . 



21. AMduwaxi kula d^ni Tcetkana. The last word should be 

 Tcetkanadi. 



TRANSLATION 



The Rabbit and his grandmother lived in a tent. He used to go 

 hunting every day, very early in the morning. But though he used 

 to go very early every morning, it happened that a person with very 

 long feet had passed along ahead of him. For many days the Rabbit 



