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Jicarilla Apache - Coyote Insults The Rock
Coyote ran off from there and came where a rock was rolling around under a cliff. "I am going to roll over you," the rock said. "I run fast. You can not run over me," said Coyote. "Don't say that, I will roll over you," cried the rock. Coyote defecated and urinated on top of it. The stone commenced to roll. Coyote was running around in front of it. "Here I am, roll on me," he cried. It was rolling after him pretty fast. Coyote, as he was running around, started up a hill. The stone came after him. When he started down, the stone still came after him. For a long time, they did that until Coyote was tired out. "I am going to clean it," said Coyote. Then he licked it clean and started off again.
Jicarilla Apache Texts, by Pliny Earle Goddard; New York: Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, Vol. VIII; (1911) and is now in the public domain.
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