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TSIMSHIAN TEXTS 



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looked for him evenwLiL're. They asked all the tribes, but they could 

 not tiud hiui. Then the people stopped, but his father and his mother 

 loni;-ed for him. They were cryini;- all the time. They did so many 

 days. 



One day the man was walkinu' aliout cryiny. When he stopped ciy- 

 intj, he looked up a mountain, and. l)ehold, smok(> came out of it. He 

 ■went up. and when he eame near, he saw a woman. She asked the man, 

 "Do you know who took your childr' "No," said the man. "The 

 Star took your child. He tied him onto the edge of his smoke-hole. 

 The child is crying- all the time. He is almost dead, because the sparks 

 the tire are burning his bod\'." Thu.s she spoke. Then she said, 



g'etk'sL qal-ts"a'p. Txane'tk"r. lig'i-nda' k'uL-g'ig'i'Eldet. 1 



looked for thy town. All c.-verywhere about they looked, 

 him 



T.\ane'tk"i. saL hwi'ldrt: ni'o-it hwa'det. La u-wa'tk"det. 



saL 



diiy 



they foitnd (Perf. I 

 him. 



thev lo.^t him. 



NLk'"e ha'udet: txane'tk"r. i(:il-ts"ipts'a'pL g'e'daxdet. K'"(> ?> 



Then they stopped; all the people of various they asked. Then 



towns 



qa'iir-hwila aba'g"ask"L nEgua'odEt qanL noxt. Qa'ne-hwila 4 



always was troubled his father ami his Always 



his 

 mother. 



sTg-a'tk"det. Wi-he'ii. sai, hwi'ld("t. 



thev cried. Miriy ilay^ tliey diil 



When again one day. 



k'\' huX k'uL-ie'eL g*a'tg"e ai. (> 



then a^nin about went thenuin at 



k\iL-wi-ye'tk"t. XLk*'o ui ha'wuL wi-ye'tk"t, k"'et bax-o^'a'uL T 



abimt lie erieil. Then when he erying, then np he saw 



stopped 



au'vo'eii k"si-he'tgut aL lax-sciane'st. S 



smokt- out stood at oi 



lax-sqane'st, gwina'dt'L, 



(in a mountain, heboid, 



XLk*'0 bax-iii'L ti"*a'tj4"r' 



Then up went the man 



hjina'([. XLk*'e tgoni. 



a Woman. Then this 



n the 



mountain. 



lat. Xi.k'Y' hagun-a'qLk"t. GwInfi'deL. !♦ 



to it. Then toward he Behold, 



reached. 



her. hana'qg'e. G'i'daqL. g**a'to''r': 10 



said the woman. She asked the man: 



llw ria'yiu t'an go'uL Loo'uLt^una' i 



"Do you wlio took your child?" 



know 



" Xe'/' de'yai. o"a'to"r. 11 



"No," thus said the num. 



'PEli'st t\iii go'uL L^-(>'uLk". Lax-ts'ii'L ala' t hwil le-d'a'dKt 12 



"The stars who took thechild. On the edge the where on they 



of smoke-hole pntit 



|a'iit-hw?la wi-ye'tk"t. NLk-"e 13 



always he cries. Then 



t(|"al-ilc-dii'k'Ld('t la'(-)t. NLk'"i' 



against they tied it toil. Then 



La dEm no'ot. <[;uia'lEgui. 



(perf.i (flit. I dead, s})arks 



hik" t'an me'LL lipi.a'nt " 14 



tire which burns his body," 



De'ytiL. ^la'Laask"!, h;ina'(|g'e. NLk''e tgonL hei, hana'cjg'e: 15 



Thus she He was told by the woniaii. Then this said the womau: 



suid. 



