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bii-gu” tin'-ok. Nun-wkh'-cha-mi tm'-gut tkh'-kokh-kna!-ni kii-tokh!-lu-ki 
prize it” flies he. Standing up those scattered about gathering up 
tm'-i-nd chaw'-ik ti-gu-mi-a'-ka u-tikh'-tok u-tikh'-gni-nin'-i-ga'-ni ig!-i- 
that knife keeping goes back he — back when he is going his 
jag'-a ka-hla'-tin-im'-ok kho!-ka d-pin'-i-tin-in'-ok chis-kog!-i-ni ai-a'-pin'- 
throat contracts it the back curves it on his knees his hands 
m-th ki-i'-ma pi-w'-ju-d-gu-tok wi-w-hlu-tkh'-tok ki-i'-md pii-lokh!-tok 
rest suddenly cannot walk he old man becomes he suddenly on his face 
lies he 
pi-ki'-tn-u-g’i-tok tau-a'-ni ti-ko!-lu-ni. 
stirs not he and then is dead. 
THE LONE WOMAN 
(From St Michael) 
Very long ago there were many men living in the northland, but 
there was no woman among them. Far away in the southland a single 
woman was known to live. At last one of the young men in the north 
started and traveled to the south until he came to the woman’s house, 
where he stopped and in a short time became her husband. One day 
he sat in the house thinking of his home and said, “Ah, I have a wife, 
while the son of the headman in the north has none.” And he was 
much pleased in thinking of his good fortune. 
Meanwhile the headman’s son also had set out to journey toward the 
south, and while the husband was talking thus to himself the son 
stood in the entrance passage to the house listening to him. He waited 
there in the passage until the people inside were asleep, when he crept 
into the house and, seizing the woman by the shoulders, began drag- 
ging her away. 
Just as he reached the doorway he was overtaken by the husband, 
who caught the woman by her feet. Then followed a struggle, which 
ended by pulling the woman in two, the thief carrying the upper half 
of the body away to his home in the northland, while the husband 
was left with the lower portion of his wife. Each man set to work to 
replace the missing parts from carved wood. After these were fitted 
on they became endowed with life, and so two women were made from 
the halves of one. 
The woman in the south, however, was a poor needlewoman, owing 
to the clumsiness of her wooden fingers, but was a fine dancer. The 
woman in the north was very expert in needlework, but her wooden 
legs made her a very poor dancer. Each of these women gave to her 
daughters these characteristics, so that to the present time the same 
difference is noted between the women of the north and those of the 
south, thus showing that the tale is true.! 
1This tale refers to notable facts in regard to the accomplishments of the women in the districts 
north and south of St Michael. 
