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Chiricahua Apache - Coyote and the Rock Rabbit


Coyote was walking (along) a road. He saw a Rabbit lying on the edge of the road. Rocks were lying inside that Rabbit.

(Coyote) jumped toward it. He bit at the center of it.

"Ow... ! I thought it was Rabbit!" he said.

Chiricahua and Mescalero Apache Texts,1938, Harry Hoijer, principal author. Ethnological Notes by Morris Opler.
Told by Sam Kenoi