Boas] KATHLAMET TEXTS 29 
“They belong to my father’s mother. When I am grown up, she will 
give them away.” ** Whose are these long dentalia/” ‘+ They belong 
to my father’s mother. When I am grown up,she will give them 
away.” ** Whose are these short dentalia?” **They belong to my 
father’s mother. When I am grown up, she will give them away.” 
He asked about all those things, and thought: **I will take them.” 
When it was evening, the old woman came home. She hung up 
something that pleased him. It was shining. He stayed there a long 
time and took that girl. They remained there. Every morning the 
old woman disappeared. At night she came back. She brought 
home all kinds of things. She brought home arrows. Sometimes 
she brought mountain-goat blankets and elkskin shirts. She did so 
every day. He stayed there a long time; then he grew homesick. 
For two days he did not rise. She asked her granddaughter: ** Did 
you scold him and is he angry?” ** No, I did not scold him; he is 
homesick.” Then she asked her son-in-law: **What do you wish 
to have when you go home? Do you want these buffalo skins?” 
He said: **No.” ** Do you want these mountain-goat blankets?” Tle 
Ler’gjelawulXem gitegr’lotkt.” “1a’n inakt@ yaXi Gqauwikje’Lé / 
When I get mature she will give them “Whose things those long dentalia? 
away.” 
Lan ina’ kte yaXi isupku p 2 ** Aon’ kjéec itea’k te. 
Whose things those short dentalia?”’ “My grandmother's her things. 
Ler’ qjélawulXem citer lotkt.” 
When I get mature she will give them away.” 
Ka’nauwe taXi ta’nemax  itctaxqa’mEtcxdgoa. Le ixnd’xoa-it: 
All those things he asked about them. ~ He thought: 
* Anuega’ma.” = _Xa’piX aqa igaxkjoa’mam wuXi aqjeyd’qt. Aga 
“T will take it.” Intheevening then she came home that old woman. Then 
wi @Xt que igia’wiX yaXi qjat ktci’yuxt ia’k"tgoamax yaXi 
again one hangup she did it that like he did it shining that 
ta’nki. Ta’2na-it kopa’. E’yanqtiX id’ta-it kopa’. Aga itcd’ckam 
something. He stayed there. Long time he stayed there. Then he took her 
wuXi akia’prxix’. Inxe/la-it kopa’.. Kawi’X, a’nqa kjem wuXi 
that girl, They stayed there. Early, already nothing that 
aqjeyo'qt.  Tsd’yustiX naXkjoa’mamx. <Akto/kramx  tkté’max. 
old woman. In the evening she came home. She brought them things. 
Akto’kramx  tqa’matex; ana’ tqoa’/kemax = akto/knamx. Ana’ 
She brought them arrows; some- mountain-goat she brought them. Some- 
times blankets times 
igeIuqte  agid/ktnamx. Ka’nauwe wka’etax a’kua. F’yargtiX 
elkskinarmors she brought them. All days thus. Long time 
id’La-it, aqa ika’k"L iter’yéx. Md’ket?X id’qoya niet igixr’latck. 
he stayed, then homesickness acted on him. Twice his sleeps not he arose. 
Igo'lXam wuXi agi’/gian wuXi aqjeyo’qt: **Emio’mélatei kja 
She said to her that her grandchild that old woman: “You scolded him fint. and 
part.] 
ex'E’'LXaqt?” ‘Kja'ya, nict énio’mela; ika’k"L  tel’y6xt. Aga 
he is angry?” “"No, not Iscolded him; homesickness acts on him. Then 
igid|Xam_ itea’qceiX: “*Tan amid’/kta namXkjoa’ya? YaXi_ tei 
she said to him her son-in-law: “What will youcarry when you go home? That  [int. 
part.] 
ito-ihe’max amio’kta/” Itco’'/Xam kja’ya. **TaXi tei tqoa’kemax 
buffalo skins you carry them?” He said to her, No “Those [int. mountain-goat 
part.) blankets 
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