BOAS] KATHLAMET TEXTS 15185) 
bay, the old man made the canoe shake. Mink fell into the water 
and went down. Then the old man thought: ‘Now I have killed 
him.” The old man came home. <A person was walking up and 
down. He looked just like Mink. The old man landed. Then Mink 
came down and said: ‘*You stayed a long time and I brought our 
wedges and hammers home already.” ** Ha, this little rascal,” said 
the old man. Mink replied: ‘‘You are an old man and you are 
strong. Iam only a boy. I can not do as much as you.” Now they 
carried up all the wood. Then they stayed. 
Then again he teased the old man. Sometimes he threw water on 
him when he was asleep; sometimes he burned him. One night the 
old man said: ‘*Let us try who will stay awake longest.” Mink 
said; ‘All right.” He went and searched for some rotten wood. 
When it got dark, he put the rotten wood oyer his eyes. The old man 
ict@’gosix’. Ka’terkpa @/mar icto’yam. Lax? itei’yux icta’Xanim. 
they went across. Middle inthebay they arrived. Rock he did it their canoe. 
LjOX iona’taxtit ik0’sa-ft Ltcu’qoapa. Ljlap  id/ya_ ik0’sa-ft. 
Fall he fell down mink the water into. Under he went mink. 
down water 
Igixtd’/Xoa-it yaXi iqjeyd’qt: ‘*Qjoi’Lj, aga ini’/waq.” Qjoa'p 
£ A ie} \ \s joa] 
He thought that old man: “All right, now I killed him,” Nearly 
i0’yam yaXi iqjeyo’qt. Aga ukta’/la wgoare’lX. Ya’Xka ta 
he arrived that old man. Then he walked a person. He be- 
about hold! 
iko’sa-it ina/Ikuilé. Igixe’gela-iX yaXi iqjeydo’qt. Ige’Lxam 
mink he resembles him. He landed that old man, He came down 
to the beach 
ik6’sa-it: ‘Lele kja’ya imp’x6x, a’nqa intr’Lam txa/qeqama kja 
raink: “Long nothing you were, longago I prone at our wedges and 
them 
txa/Lxalona.” “rqa = ta’nki = mxela’]_ = LaXi ~—s Lqo@'tgaitgai.” 
our hammers.” “Maybe something you do that little raseal.”’ 
**Majeyo’qt ma’yax alamxelo’l. Naika nkja’skas Lqa pod nfet 
I 
“You are an old you you do it. Ta boy maybe if not 
man 
nxelo’l.”  Icktd’kuiptek ka’nauwé — ta’ Xi te’etamgo. Aqa wi 
I do it.” They carried it up all that their wood. Then again 
Lx@’la-it. 
they stayed. 
Ka’nauwé qa'tgemax qatcid’xoa-itx. yaXi — ia’qdqein. Ana’ 
All kinds of ways he did to him that his sister-in-law’s Some. 
relative. times 
Ltcu’qoa wax qatcLigd’xoax. Ka i0’qxoyO yaXi iqjeyd’qt, aqa 
water pour he did on him. When he slept that old man, then 
out 
Lteu’qoa wax aqLigd’xoax. Ana’ qatcixtHla’max ia’qdqcin iko’sa-it. 
water pour itwasdoneonhim. Some- he burned him his sister-in- mink. 
out times law’s relative 
Agona’pol itcid’|/Xam_ 1a’qédqcin: “*AtXumgé’tga, atxk’grlema.” 
One night he said to him his relative’s ‘Let us go, we will be awake.” 
brother-in-law: 
Ige’kim iko’sa-it: ‘*Qoa’1j.” ~Iteona’xtam —iko’sa-it ~apix'a’fnq. 
He said mink: “All right.” He pene to search mink rotten wood. 
or it 
Igd’ponrm, iga-ixn’]l6x  sia’xostpa wuXi apix‘a’ing. Nigé’kctx 
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It got dark, he put it on his eyes on that rotten wood. He iooked 
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