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walking on the leg. When she came walking to the middle of the 
creek, she became afraid and he began to shake his leg. He turned his 
Jeg and she fell into the water. She drifted down the river. ‘* Robin 
shall be your name; you shall not eat people.” She drifted down. 
The crane said to her: *‘ Robin shall be your name.” 
Far away she drifted ashore. A crow found her and began to eat 
her private parts. Then she recovered. She arose and painted her 
belly with her blood. It became all red. Then she went inland and 
came to a willow. She asked the willow: ‘‘Is my painting becom- 
ing?” ‘*Oh, how bad looks the blood of her private parts,” cried the 
willow. ‘*Oh, you bad thing!” she said, ‘‘ when your wood is burned 
it shall crackle.” She came to the alder. ‘Is my painting becom- 
ing/” The alder said: ‘‘It is becoming.” ‘‘Ah, sister,” she said, 
“when people make anything they shall dye it red in your bark. 
When you are dry, you will burn well.” She went on and came to 
the cottonwood. She asked it: ‘‘Is my painting becoming?” The 
ia/qo-it. Qeqiavakpa’ yaXi €@’qaL ica’xong. <A’qa itcixelta/mit 
leg. Middle on that creek she was eitais Then he shook it 
to fall. 
yaXi ia’go-it. Aga ica’xorg. Lax° itci’yé6x yaXi  ia/qo-it. 
that his leg. Then she was afraid Roll he did it that his leg. 
to fall. 
Igalé’maLxex'it. Jed’ Xuné aga qa’eqamixX. ‘‘Amii’sgaga imé’xaleu. 
She fell into the water. She drifted then down the river. “Robin your name. 
Nict té1Xam — amtuwu'lqjLx.” Igo'Xu né a/qa. Tted/1Xam 
Not people you shall eat them.” She drifted now. He said to her 
iqoa’cqoac: ‘* Amii’seaga imé/xaleu.” 
the crane: “Robin your name.”’ 
Kela?X igo’ Xuné. leo Xu/niptek. Igd’cgam atja/ntsa. Iegixn’lemux 
Far she drifted. She drifted ashore. She found the crow. She ate it 
her 
yaXi (naqage’lak) itea’qo-itXa.  Kaga ixela’x aga itcil Xa’takoa. 
that (vulva) her vulva, When she ate then she recovered. 
IgaXn’latck. Inaxelgé’matck  LaXi Lea’ qawulgt ka’nauwé 
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She arose. She painted herself that her blood all 
itea’wanpa, ac Lpiil ige’x itca’wan. Tod/ya, igd’ptcga. Iga-igdo’qoam 
her belly at, and red became her belly. She went, she went She reached it 
inland. 
elaitk. ‘‘Li’nkuey tei Lew’qawulqt?” igid/-Xam_ ela/itk. *‘‘ Qantci’x 
the willow. ‘Becoming  [int. my blood?” she said to it the willow. “When 
to me part.] 
iqoe’tXa Lia’qawulqt po qaLcga’teqoa-it.” ‘* Na yaXi'yax,” igid’| Xam. 
a vulva its blood if ugly on a person.” “Oh, ~ that one,” she said to it. 
*Ma'nix aqamxelge’Lxa aqa Ljii/qujiiq amxd’xoa.”  —Tgago’qoam 
“Whon you will be burnt then crackle you do,” She reached 
aqaxp’miuLx. ‘*Tcu’xoa ii’nkueq tei Lgn’qawulqt?”  Iga’kim 
the alder. “Well becoming {int. my blood?’’ It said 
to me part.] 
aqaxE/miuLx: ‘‘LE/mkucq Lme’qawulqt.” ‘Aaa a’tce,” igd’/lXam, 
the alder: “Becoming to you blood.” “Ah, younger she said to it, 
you sister,” 
*“ima’nix ta/nki agid’xoax aga Lpiil qioxo’lalemx ame’qalemx. Ma‘nix 
“when some- is made then red it is made (with) your bark. When 
thing 
amXca’qoa aqa ime’x‘EmaLXat.” Igd'ya wi'tax. Igaegdo’qoam 
~— you are dry then you will burn.” She went again. She reached it 
