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."