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people: ‘‘ Indeed we shall die of hunger if that snow does not disap- 
pear.” Then they gathered their property and tried to buy the boy, 
but his parents did not give him away. It was October when the 
cold began. It got summer again and they began to die of hunger. 
Many old people died. Hunger killed them. The snow became as 
hard as stone. The sun tried to come out, but it did not melt the snow. 
One day the chief opened the door. The door opened high up near 
the beam of the house. He saw a bird carrying something red in 
his beak. He struck it with a stick and it let fall what it carried. 
Then he said to his wife: ‘*Go and fetch what that bird let drop.” 
His wife arose and went to take it. She looked at it. It was a 
strawberry. Then she said to her husband: ‘* That is a strawberry. 
The strawberries must be ripe while it is freezing here.” She gave 
her husband the strawberry. Then her husband felt badly about that 
boy. He said to his wife: ‘to-morrow I shall leave you. Perhaps 
Aqikia’itemita  ikapa’.” Igugoa’kim  ta-ftci télXam: “O, 
He shall be placed on ice.” They said those people: ‘Oh, 
a’qanauwe. Wald’ alXta/ita, manix nict kja aLx6’xoa gi 
indeed. Hunger we die, if not nothing becomes that 
Ltga.” Aqa itgd’xoaqtck tga’ktemax. Ke’nuwa iqid’mrla yaXi 
snow.” Then they gathered their property. Try he was bought that 
ikja’/skas. Nict iqé’yot. Teca/maLix: prt aqa yaXi_ itcr’LElbo. 
boy. Not he was given October really then that cold was on 
away. them. 
Tatcja, wi tca/koafX  igé’xoxoé, aqa wald  iLxn'La-it. 
Behold, again summer it became, then hunger they died. 
Lga'peElatike tqjeyo’qtike qaLo/mrgtx. Walo aktuwa’qoax. A’ka 
~ Many old people died. Hunger killed them. Thus 
LaxXi tga uqi’nake qjn/lqjul inm’xOx. Keé’nuwa aqaza’x 
that snow stones har it became. Try sun 
naxo/xoax, néct qaLuwi’ntsxax. Qa2xiqané’gua, aqa  yaXi 
it got, not it melted it. One day, then that 
é’'tacq taXi tqu’Lé ca’xaliX yixé’pa, qjoa’p ige’paqu aqa 
its door that house up here, near the beam then 
a-ixzla’quqiXix; aga itci/Lqelkel yaXi ina’ Xakjemana Lpje’spjEs, 
it opened; then he saw it that their chief a bird, 
ta’nki Leglyuqst pil. Itcingn’/ltceeém e@’menqgd.  Ige’Lxeluktco 
some- it carried in red, He hit it with a stick. Tt fell 
thing its beak 
vaXi ingi’yuqet. Itco’|Xam — aya’kikala: ‘‘Iga’lemam _ ta’nki 
that what it carried He said to her his wife: * Fetch it something 
in its beak. 
yaXi igé/txaluktcO LaXi  Lpje’spjes.” Igo’'tXuit aya’kikala. 
“that it let fall that bird.” She arose his wife. 
Igiugoa’lemam. Igiukjoma’nanmmtck, aga  amo’te.  Igio’| Xam 
She went to fetch it. : She looked at it, then astrawberry. She said to him 
itea’kikal: ‘‘A, amo’te tawa’X. tXuan aqa Lokst git’amo’te 
her husband: “Ah, a straw- this. Perhaps then ripe they having 
berry strawberries 
gite?lxalbot.” ITIRgailot itea’kikal wuXi amo’te. O, aqa — nict 
we having cold.” She fave it her husband that strawberry. Oh, then not 
to him 
itjo’kti igé’x @yamXte itea’kikal yaXi ikja’skjaspa. Itco’lXam 
good became his heart her husband that boy to. He said to her 
aya/kikal: ‘“‘O'la aga ayamtcqrlo’qrka. Lu’ Xuan In/xaimatike 
his wife: “To-mor- then I shall leave you. Perhaps we alone 
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