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him what he should do with himself in the lake to get good luck; 

 "for," said he, "whenever I play a game with Ya'l5 e a', I lose con- 

 tinually, and now I want you to tell me what to do to myself in the 

 lake." 



The old man said, "In the first place, you have to tell your wife not 

 to move about in your bed, and not to roll about; but she must he 

 on her right side all night, untd you come home in the morning. Now, 

 when you reach the lake, wet some hemlock branches and rub them 

 on your body. First, you must make four bunches of them — two 

 bunches for the right side of your body, and two for the left side. 

 You will have to keep nibbing them on your body until you get warm 

 with the pain they will make. Then you must go into the water and 

 get cooled down. Then keep on rubbing until the blood comes 

 through your skin; and after you have done this, dive into the water 

 and stay under just as long as your breath will let you. Now, you 

 must do this four times, and just before daylight you will do so again. 

 Then he cooled himself; for he was very warm from the rubbing he 

 had with the four bunches of hemlock branches. 



After he had finished, he sat under a tree alongside of the lake, and 

 just before daylight he went through all that he had done in the night. 

 When he had finished, he came home, and lay down in one corner of 

 the house. 



Now, as soon as Hekwatses had gone out of his house, the old man 

 thought he saw a man enter, who seemed to go into Hekwatses's 

 bedroom. Then he thought he heard Hekwatses's wife laugh with a 

 man; but the old man said to himself, "I will sit close to the door, 

 and see him go out in the morning;" and he sat alongside of the 

 door, where no one could see him. Just past midnight he saw the 

 man come out of the bedroom of Hekwatses. He passed close to 

 the old man, as he was sitting there; and the old man thought that 

 this man was Chief Ya/lo £ a\ Then the man went out of the door, and 

 the old man lay down in his bed. He thought to himself, "I will not 

 say anything to my chief, Hekwatses, about it, for it is only one night 

 she will do that against her husband." 



As soon as night came on, Hekwatses went out of the house without 

 saying a word to any one; he did not even speak a word to his wife. 

 Then he went to the lake again, and began to take another four 

 branches of hemlock trees; and he tied them in four bunches, and 

 began to go through what he had done the first night. After he had 

 finished, he went out and sat under the tree where he had sat the 

 first night. Just before daylight he took another bath, as he had 

 done before ; and when he had finished, he went home and lay dowr:, 

 in the corner again. 



The old man, however, saw the man come into the house and go 

 into the bedroom of Hekwatses; and he heard them play together 



