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wife and the great wolf dance Walas'axa'.^ Its names are G-alg*ayalis 

 and G*alqEmalis and QEmo'ta'yalis and QEinotilelag-ilis, and your sum- 

 mer names will be NEg-e' and Neg'e'ts'C' and Qoaxo'L and G-'ig'ESLEu. 

 The great dance Walas'axa' has forty songs. You will use this house for 

 the celebration of the wiuter ceremonial, my son-in-law. That is all." 

 Thus spoke Qa'watiliqala to O'maxt'a'laLe. The latter replied : "Thank 

 you, Chief Qa'watiliqala. I am glad on account of your speech, father- 

 in-law. Now teach me the songs of the dance Walas'axa', for I will at 

 once invite all the tribes when I reach home." Thus spoke O'maxt'a'- 

 laLc. 



The speaker of the house said: "O, Chief Qa'watiliqala! Let us 

 have the winter ceremonial to-night, that our sonin law may see our 

 ways." Qa'watiliqala answered : " My speaker, your advice is good," 

 and, turning to the wolf posts of the house, he continued: "Now take 

 care, friends, you, QEmo'ta'yalis, and you, QEmotilElag-ilis. Howl, that 

 our friends G'alalaLila and his children may come." When he had 

 finished, O'maxt'a'laLc said: "O, father-in-law ! I now invite you and 

 your tribe to bring my house, myself, and my wife to my place. 1 can 

 not withstand your words, father-in-law! I say, thank you! Now let 

 rae watch your supernatural dances to-night, else I shall not know 

 what 3^ou are doing in this great dance." 



At night the speaker of the house said: "Now, magicians, howl ! 

 that G-alalaLila and liis chihlren may come." Then QEmo'ta'yalis and 

 QEmotilElag-ilis, the posts of the house, howled four times each. At 

 once a howl like theirs was heard back of the house. Then Qa'watili- 

 qala called his tribe, the ancestors of the Ts'a'watEenox. They entered 

 their chief's house, and as soon as they had assembled the wolves came 

 in. All the men cried: "Yihli, hu, hfi, hu, hu, hu!" Four times they 



did so, and then they sang: 



I. 



1. He was made to sit between the wolves, hai. 



2. He was taken around the world by LriHstalaqa, the wolf, hfii. 



II. 



For four years I was coming home. Then Ma't'Km took me away. 



III. 



1. My poor younger brother, ifnukur-danuLas, who lives on the other side, lies ihi a, 

 for you said long ago that he was the first to show the wolf dance, my younger 

 brother, 'irnukucdauuLas, who lives on the other side, i hayo ihi, iy iho o, ihi, iyihft, 

 o iyi, hayf), o, ihi, iyiho, 6, iyi, ihi, iyiho, o. 



2. My poor younger brother gamtalaL the T'Eua'xtax, lies, ihi a, for you said that 

 long ago he was the first to show the wolf dance, my younger brother, j^amtalaL 

 theT'Ena'xtax, i hayo ihi, iyiho o, ihi, iyiho, o iyi, hayo, o, ihi, iyiho, o, iyi, iyiho, o. 



IV. 



1. Come, come, come, come and make Jove to the son of the wolf ! Come ! yihi, yihi, 

 i i, wo o o 6 o o, 



2. LeLatalaeuox, the wolf, has been all around tlu; right-hand side of the world. 



' See page 477. 



