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mediately they sang | the song with fast beating; and after they 88 

 liad finished, tliey | sang tlae song with slow beating; and after they 

 had sung it, || the head song-leader, whose name was Hanag'atsle, 90 

 arose and | spoke. He said, "O friends! difficult are | these songs 

 which we have now. | These are the songs of the supernatural power. 

 These two | songs which we have sung were obtained by our friend 

 Qlex'sesElas (V 4) when she || went to the house of the supernatural 95 

 power. After he had said so, he sat down. | Qlex'sesElas (V 4) did 

 not come and dance. Now | HoLelid (V 6) asked all those chiefs of 

 the numayms whose children had never danced | to come in the 

 evening and to work the lasso; | and he also asked the members of 

 the Sparrow Society — men, women, and || children — to come and 600 

 pacify the ghost-dancer. After he had spoken, | Chiton (V 7) brought 

 out the copper bracelets to the place where HoLelid (V 6) | was stand- 

 ing. He gave them away at once to all the ] members of the Spar- 

 row Society; and when each had been given one, they went out of 

 the I dancing-house. Wlien it was almost evening || Y5x"yagwas, 5 

 and his friends, the chiefs of the numayms, | and the song-leaders, came 

 in. Then Cliiton (V 7) thanked them for coming, | because it was 

 really not the wish of HoLelid, because he did not | know the ways 

 of the winter dance of the L !aL lasiqwala, | nor his tribe, because they 



dayowa tsaxala q lErndsma. Wa, g'lPEm^lawise q lulbaxs laa^l edza- 88 

 qwasa nEqaxElas tlEm^yase. Wa, gil^Em^lawise q'.ulbaxs laa^lase 

 Lax^iilila Laxiima^yasa nenagadexa Legadas Hanagatsle. Wa, la^lae go 

 yaqlEg'a^a. Wa, la^lae ^nek-a: "^ya, ^ne^nEmok". PasEmalag'i^la- 

 kwawesEiiu^x" laxg'anu^x" dalasok" ytxg'ada qlEmqlEmdEmk'. Wa, 

 yuEm waldEms hayalilagasaoxda liiqEnu^x" sEqoyaxwa ma^tsEmex 

 q!Emq!EmdEma yauEmaxsEns ^nEmokwae Q!ex'sesElasa laxes 

 laasdae g'okwasa hayalllagase," ^nex'^laexs laa4 k!wag-allla. Wa, 95 

 laEm^lae hewaxa g'ax yix^wid^lae Qlex'sesElase. Wa, aEnr'lawise 

 HoLelide la helaxa ^naxwa bebaxiitslEdzesa g-Ig-Egama^yasa ^nab'iiE- 

 ^memase, qa g'axeltsexa ganuLe dadEnx"silalxa ximayowe dEnEma 

 l6^ ^naxwe^ma gwegwatslEme LE^wa gwegtltslaxsEme Lo^ma gwagii- 

 gwedzEme, qa^s tEmElqwelxa lElolalaie. Wa, gih'Em^awise q!wel-e- goo 

 dExs g'axae Q!anase ax^alilElasa L!aL!Eqwak' line k' lokiila lax LiVwi- 

 lasas HoLelide. Wa, hex-4daEnr1awise yax^wlts laxa ^naxwa gwe- 

 gugiidza. Wa, g'll^Em^lawise ^wi^lxtoxs laa^l ^wPla hoqiiwElsa laxa 

 lobEkwe. Wa, g-tl^Em^awise Ehiq dztxqwaxs g'axaa^l hogwiLe 

 Yox"yagwase LE^wis ^ne^nEmokwa g'lg'Egama^yasa^nab'nE'memase, 5 

 LE^wa nen&gade. Wii, hex-^daEmHawise Q!anase molas gaxeLle- 

 na^yas, qaxs ala^maa^l k- le^s naqa^ye HoLelide, qaxs k' !esae 

 qlaLElax gwayi^lalasasa LlaLlasiqwalaxs ts !ats !exsllaaxa ts!ets!eqa. 

 Wa, he^mises g-olg'iikulote, ylxs k- !esae doqidaenoxux gwayi^lalasas. 



