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door of the house. She put it in slanting, | in this way: 

 Then Head-Princess told her husband | to drive it in with 

 his stone hammer. When it was one || span below the 

 floor, he | stopped driving it in. Then she took the other 



pole I and put it down into the hole so that it was in 



this way, 



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hammer 

 stopped 



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and YaqEyallsEm (V 6) | drove it in with his 

 and when the top was even with the | first one, he 

 Then his wife took an || empty oil-bottle and 45 

 split one side the whole length; | and when the kelp 



bottle had been split along one side, | she tied it to the two poles 

 that were tied together in | the hole that had been dug out. She 

 put the inner side of the kelp outward, because | it was greasy 

 and slippery. She tied it on its || full length, and there was only 50 

 one way of tying it. | She tied it up and down in this way; 

 There was no cross-tying. After | this was done, Head- 

 Princess (V 7) took sometlung that she had kept secretly in 

 a I basket and put it down. Not even her husband knew 

 what was in it. Then Head-Princess spoke, || and said, " 0, mas- 55 

 ter! now call the cliiefs | of your numayms, one head chief of 

 each of thera, that | they come and watch how we work the hole 

 that we dag. Don't | let any one of those who call them show 

 himself to their wives, that they may not guess what you want, | 



xahi, g"a gwiileg'a (fg.). Wa, hVlae K' ledelsma^ye axkMalaxes la-wu- 38 

 nBine, qa degutodeq yises pElpElqe. Wa, g'il^Em^lawis ^UEmplEnk- 

 laxEns q!waq!wax'ts!ana^yex la banalagawesa Swlnagwllaxs laa^l 40 

 gwal deqwe YaqEyalisEmilq. Wa, la^laxae et!ed ax^edxa^uEmtsIaqe, 

 qa^s axbEtaliles, qa g'as gwaieg-a {fig.). Wa, la^laxae YaqEyallsEma 

 degiitodEq yises pElpElqe laq. Wa, g-Il-Em^lawise ^uEmaxtala LE^wa 

 gilx'de deqwasos laa^l gwala. Wii, la^lae gEnEmas ax^edxa lolap- 

 motasox Lle-nax ^wa^wadii, qa^s LEpsEndeq laxes ^wasgEmase. Wa, 45 

 g-IPEm^awise labEndEx ^wasgEmasasa LEpsaakwe ^wa^wadexs laa^l 

 yll^aLElots lax dzengEqa^yasa oxta^yasa dzedzoxiim lax otslawas 

 ^lapa^ya. Wa, laEni^lae he ek'ladzE^ya otslax'dasa ^wa^wade, qaxs 

 LleLle^nalae, qa tsax-es. Wa, g'iPmese ^wIlg'aaLEla la ytLala laxes 

 ^wasgEmase laxes ^nE^meneme yiLlasaseqexs aek" !aaqElaaxs laa^l 50 

 yiLaq, g-a gwatega {fig.). K'les gagayaaqEles yiLa^ye. Wa, g-JpEm- 

 ^lawise gwalExs laa^lae K" ledelEma^ye ax^ed laxes q IwalaltsEyakwe 

 Llabata. Wa, g-ax^ae hang'alllas. Wa, laEm^lae k-!es qlaLEle 

 la^wunEmasex gitskiwaq. Wa, la^lae yaqlEg'a^le KMedelEma^ye. 

 Wa, la^lae ^nek'a: "^ya, q!agwida. Hag'lUa Le^lalalxox g'ig'Egama- 55 

 ^yaxsos ^nal^nE^memats !e^na^yaq !osxox ^nal^uEmokuma^yaq !es, qa 

 g'axlag'iltso doqwalalxox gweg"llasLas laxwa ^lapa^yaqEns. Gwala 

 awiilx'Es axk"!alaq, qa gEgEnEmas aLa kotalaxes axelaosaq. Wa, 

 wax"^mesEn qIaLElaqoxs lE^maax ^naxwa mexoxda ^naxwax bebE- 



