XML version dated February 14, 2024. © Douglas R. Parks, Indiana University.
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Lumpy Toad and the Rain Storm
Lillian Brave
| weNAhkUhunuuwaáWI | – | tsu | – | tiwititawéʾ | skunákaahkUx. |
| While they were going around | – | but | – | here he was among them | Toad. |
| noowitihwáčiʾ | skunakaahkUxkatawáruʾ | hásI. |
| Then they said: | "Lumpy Toad, | look! |
| wetatsU- | hiínaʾ. |
| The rain | is coming. |
| weteskatsUhiínaʾ. |
| A rain cloud is coming." |
| wewitiíkUx | AhnaahIštaáhuʾ | – | tsu | – | NAhkureewaawatíRA. |
| There he sat | as he was breathing | – | but | – | as he looked all around. |
| weteskaʾáʾ | teškunítš. |
| The cloud was coming | a little closer. |
| čee | wah | tsuxčiiniiWAhná | nokananikuučipeétIt. |
| "Why, | now | let me splash in the water | so that I won't get wet!" |
| tiwehnaariwiriihuunukaaʾá | nuukuwitanutčiiniiwaáhnaʾ. |
| When he took a leaping dive | he splashed into the water over there. |
| wehneehuuNUhtaátA | – | tsUhiínuʾ | – | noowitootuusáʾ | skuna- | kaahkUxkatawáruʾ. |
| After it passed over | – | the rain, | – | then he surfaced | Lumpy | Toad. |
| noowitihwáčiʾ | čiíRA. |
| Then they said: | "Hello! |
| ka wenačipeétIt. |
| Did you get wet?" |
| noowitiwaákoʾ | kaakíʾ. |
| Then he said: | "No. |
| číkuʾ kaakikučipeétIt. |
| I did not get wet at all." |
| Ahnoowitipsíš | hoorúhtuʾ. |
| Then he was just covered with it | mud. |
| witihwáčiʾ | Axtóh | noowetAxikAhuúʾU | hoorúhtuʾ |
| They said: | "Certainly | you are now just covered with it | mud." |
| heeʾ | kaakatuuxIskáʾ | axkučipeétIt. |
| "Yes, | I did not want | that I get wet." |