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that young fish might go.” He said to her: ** Well, come help me: we 
will look for it.” Then he lighted the pitch wood. They arrived at the 
place where the fish had fallen down. Oh, there were long dentalia 
lying there. Two of them were that long. They lay there about 
that high. Then they went down to the lake and all the way the 
boy had come there were long dentalia on the ground. Then they 
took a rush basket and a spruce-root basket, and carried all the 
long dentalia home. Then they made holes below the bed and put 
the dentalia into them, the long ones and the short ones. In the 
evening they were all stored away. After two nights the old woman, 
the boy’s grandmother, thought: “1 will go and ask for sinew from 
those people. We will string up the long dentalia.” She arose in 
the morning and went. She entered a house and said: **I come to 
ask for > present. Please give me some sinew. My grandson’s wood- 
chuck blanket is torn.” They gave her some sinew, and the old 
Lkjuya’sX.”  Iteo'IXam: “* Ni’Xua,  ame'té, ~ amengelge’cgam, 
young fish.” He said to her: “Well, come, Help y me, 
atxLona’xta.” A’qa wax inei’cdx La’ Xi Lqjaxd’ckan. Ictd’yam 
we search for it.’” Then light they did it that pitch wood. They arrived 
ya Ni ive’xaluktcOpa. O, aqa wax ige’xax iqawikjée’Le, a’qa 
that where it fell down at. Oh, then poured were long dentalia, then 
out 
maket i’wimax itca’Lqtax wu’ Xi aqawikje’Le. A’qa wax ige’ x Ox 
two thus long those long dentalia. Then poured they ere 
out 
LXuan gipr't ai/yatqt ya’ Xi iqawikjée’ne. A’qa icto’Lxa é’wa 
perhaps thus theirthickness those long dentalia. Then they went there 
down 
ikakjo/LitX. Kopr’t ya’ Xi igé’té ya’ Xi ikja’skas, kopr’t wa’xwax 
the lake. Thus ” that he ~ that boy, thus poured out 
came 
igé’x ya'Xi iqawikjée’Le. A’qa icgé’gelga iqa’geltk kja Tewapciq. 
were those long dentalia. Then they took it abasketmade and a basket made 
. of rushes and of spruce roots 
grass and grass. 
A’qa icgi’yukt tqu’Lepa; tr’ctaqupa ka’nauwe iqawikjé’Le. A’qa 
They they Carried the house to; their house to all the long dentalia. Then 
‘them 
Lkjoaya’tgemax icgrh/Lux gé@eualiX ilXn’mé. A’ga  kopa’ 
‘cac hes they Thade them b below the bed. sa there 
wa’xwax icegl’yux igawikjé’Lé kjmaya ikupku’p. Xa'pix aga 
pour out they did them the long dentalia and also the short Tie t then 
dentalia. evening 
ka’nauwe  icgi’yutk. Mdket teto’goya, a’qa igaxto’Xoa-it wu’ Xi 
all they had put Two their sleeps, then she thought that 
them by. 
aqjeyo’qt aya/ckiX ya’Xi_ ikja’skas: ‘‘QO'i nd’ya agé'Lata 
old woman his grandmother that boy: “ Must Igo sinew 
igenxElema’gjémiam ta-itci té’1Xampa. Antgixkje’Lia iqawikje’Le.” 
I ask for a present those people at. I willstring them the long dentalia.”’ 
up 
Kawi'X a’qa igaxn’latck. Igd’ya. Ig6d’pqam tqu’Lepa: ‘*Aqgé’Lata 
Early then she arose. She went. She came in the house in: “Sinew 
ganxétema’qjémiam. Si/aqjula a’qa LE’xXLEX sxée’guXt @’tetgEn.” 
I come to ask for a present. His wood- then torn it is my grandson.”’ 
chuck blanket 
TIqalama’qjeémi wu Xi aqgé’Lata. Loa’ Xkjoa wu’ Xi aqjeyd’qt. 
She wasgivena present that sinew. She went home that old woman, 
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