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160 SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO ANTHROPOLOGY NUMBER 23<br />

It continued on.<br />

Then it met a coyote. "What are you doing, little<br />

rabbit?"<br />

"Nothing, uncle," said [Rabbit].<br />

"We are holding a meeting because we are going<br />

Va7i 7un, bat la noxtok te.<br />

Va7i 7un, te la snup 7a li j-kot 7a li 7ok'il 7une.<br />

"K'u chapas, konejito?"<br />

"Mu7yuk, tio," xi la.<br />

Va7i 7un, "Yu7un ta jtzob jbatikotik yu7un ta<br />

to die," said Rabbit. "If you want to be saved I'll tie xilajotikotik," xi la ti t'ul 7une. "Mi xak'an to xakol<br />

you up, too.<br />

"Eh, I don't think so," said [Coyote].<br />

'"If you want to be saved I'll tie you up," said<br />

[Rabbit].<br />

"Oh, but I don't know. Would you tie me up?"<br />

asked [Coyote].<br />

"I'll tie you up for sure!" he said.<br />

"All right, tie me up, then," said [Coyote]. Rabbit<br />

tied up Coyote right away. I don't know, who<br />

knows how, Rabbit had taken [the man's] axe with<br />

him.<br />

"<strong>Lo</strong>ok how sharp the axe is!" It was a good axe.<br />

"I'll try it out [to see] if it can cut down this tree."<br />

Then he took a big chunk out of that coyote.<br />

He killed Coyote, too. He pulled out his teeth.<br />

Well, then he went off tooting on his gourd again.<br />

He continued on.<br />

Then he met a tiger. No, I remember! He had been<br />

tied up. "What are you doing, little rabbit?" Because<br />

he had been tied up.<br />

"Nothing. It's because they're letting me marry a<br />

girl," he said. "I don't want to marry her." he said.<br />

"Ah!" said [Tiger].<br />

"If you marry her yourself I'll leave you tied up."<br />

"Why not marry her? I'm man enough!" said<br />

Tiger. "Well, I can marry her!" he said. So that tiger<br />

was left tied up.<br />

"Oh, all right!" he said. Tiger was left tied up. The<br />

person who had tied [Rabbit] up heard [about it and]<br />

came to look.<br />

"What are you doing?" [Tiger] was asked.<br />

"Nothing. It was the little rabbit who left me tied<br />

up," he said.<br />

"Eh, do you still believe him? He's a liar," he said.<br />

"Huh, but you, what are you doing, then?" [Tiger]<br />

was asked. In a second, a red hot metal was stuck up<br />

Tiger's ass.<br />

Who knows if that rabbit came to watch. "Will<br />

you still forgive me?" asked Rabbit.<br />

"I won't forgive you now. My ass is punctured. A<br />

red hot metal went up my ass," said [Tiger].<br />

"If you will forgive me, I'll make amends," said<br />

Rabbit.<br />

"But I won't forgive you, since my ass is punctured,"<br />

he said.<br />

"If you'll calm down I'll go and bring some<br />

mangoes for you to eat. Those ones are very ripe<br />

now," said Rabbit.<br />

7uk chajjipan 7uk yu7un."<br />

"7E, mu jna7 chka7i," xi la 7un.<br />

"Mi xak'an to xakole yu7un chajjipan," xi la.<br />

"7A, pero mu jna7, mi7n xajipanon 7un?" xi la.<br />

"Chajjipan a7a!" xi la.<br />

"Bweno, jipanon che7e," xi la. Sjipan la ta 7ora ti<br />

7ok'il ti t'ul 7une. Mu jna7 7un, jna7tik k'u x7elan,<br />

stamoj la ech'el la yek'el 7un li t'ul 7une.<br />

Va7i 7un, "K'e slekil ye li 7ek'ele!" xi la. Lek li<br />

7ek'ele. "Ta jpas proval mi xboj yu7un te7 H7e." Ja7<br />

la lek 7ixjech'be taj 7ok'ile.<br />

Va7i 7un, noxtok cham la yu7un ti 7ok'ile, spitzbe<br />

la ech'el ye 7un.<br />

Bweno, te la xpiet ech'el stzu noxtok 7une, bat la<br />

7un.<br />

Va7i 7un, te la snup 7a li j-kot 7a li bolom 7un,<br />

mo7oj, 7a li chukul xa 7ox la ma ti! "K'u chapas,<br />

konejito?" Yu7un la chukul xa 7ox la.<br />

"Mu7yuk yu7un chak'ik kik' jun tzeb," xi la. "Mu<br />

jk'an chkik' 7un," xi la.<br />

"7A!" xi la.<br />

"Mi chavik' vo7ot chajchuk komel."<br />

"K'u cha7al mu chkik', vinikon!" xi la ti bolom<br />

7une. "Bweno, stak' xkik'!" xi la. Ja7 la chukat komel<br />

taj bolom 7une.<br />

"7A, stak'uk!" xi la 7un. Chukat la komel ti bolom<br />

7une, ya7i la ti buch'u chukvanem 7une, tal la sk'elel<br />

7un.<br />

Va7i 7un, "K'u chapas?" x7utat la 7un.<br />

"Mu7yuk, ja7 lischuk komel ti konejitoe," xi la.<br />

"7E, mi xach'unbe to Ie7e j7epal jol?" xi la 7un.<br />

Bweno, va7i 7un, "Ja7 pero k'u chapas vo7ote<br />

che7e?" x7utat. J-likel 7a pajbat k'ak'al tak'in schak ti<br />

bolom 7une.<br />

Va7i la, jna7tik mi7n 7ital to k'elvanuk taj t'ul<br />

7une. "Mi xlaj to 7avo7on?" xi la ti t'ul 7une.<br />

"Mu xa xlaj 7un, ja7 li te vomol i jchak 7och<br />

k'ak'al tak'in ta jchake," xi la.<br />

Bweno, "Ti mi laj 7avo7one ta jlajesbot 7avo7on,"<br />

xi la ti t'ul 7une.<br />

"Pero mu xlaj ko7on," xi la. "Ja7 li x7elan vomol<br />

jchake," xi.<br />

"Mi xlaj 7avo7one ba jta tal manko 7alo7, 7a Ie7e<br />

batz'i k'onik xa ta j-mek," xi li t'ul 7une.

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