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you do not take it up, you wiU | die where we are sitting here." 12 

 Thus he said. Immediately the | man arose from the place where he 

 was sitting, and took up the red cedar-bark and | hid it in his armpit, 

 and then he had saved his Hfe; for he had || hidden the red cedar-bark 15 

 which he was going to put into his box, which was in | his house. 

 The red cedar-bark was not to be seen again until he would give a 

 winter dance | the next winter, when he was to invite for a winter 

 dance. This is called | Begging-for-One's-Life — the taking up of 

 the red cedar-bark when it is put down on the sitting-place to | be 

 taken up by the one who disobeys the chief of the Sparrow Society; 

 for the II chief of the Sparrow Society is the chief of the winter 20 

 dance. Generally he is | chief, for the chief of the Sparrow Society 

 has no dance. | 



(I will talk for a little while about this. When | the chief the 

 father of Q lEmtq !adas gave a winter dance, while | Ts !6x"ts !aes 

 was stOl a child — for this was his name in summer — || aU those who 25 

 were to disappear were placed in a row to be seen by all the men | 

 who had been taken by the supernatural power of the winter dance. 

 Then | Ts !ox"ts !aes stood among them on the right-hand side of 

 those who were to disappear; and | after they had been looked at, 

 they went into the woods where the whistles sounded. Then | 

 Ts!ox"ts!aes went backward; and he was taken by the chief of the 

 Sparrow Societj', || not by the father of Ts !ox"ts !aes. Then the 30 

 chief of the Sparrow Society said, | "You will not go, friend Ts!6x"- 



1e-1 laxEns khvalaasex," ^nex'^lae. Wa, S,Em^Iawise hex'^ida^ma 12 

 bEgwauEme Lax-'uls laxes kiwadzase qa-'s le dax'^idxa LlagEkwe qa-'s 

 q'.illal^edeq laxes dEmgulase. Wa, la^me q!ulaxanux"s qaxs la^me 

 q'.ulaHdxa L'.agEkwe qa^s lal g"its!odElts laxes g'ildasexa ha^nela lax 15 

 g'okwas. Wa, al^Emlwise dox^waLElLa LlagEkwaxs lal yawix"ilalxa 

 laLa etledEl tslSwunxa qo lal yawix'ilaLo. Wii, heEm LegadEs 

 q'.ulaxexa dax'^idaxa LlagEkwaxs g'Ig'aEldzEmae laxa kiwalaase qa 

 dax'^itsE^vesa hatlElax waldEmasa gwegwesEma-'ye qaxs he-mae 

 g'igamesa tsletsleqaxa gwegwesEma^ye yixs hemEnala^mae g'igame 20 

 bEgwanEma, yixa gwesEma^ye, yixs k'leasae laenesa gwesEma^ye. 



(Wa qEns yawasnde gwagwex's^ala laq. Wa, he^maaxs lae yawi- 

 x'lle g'lgama^ye omps QlEmtqladaswiila, yixs he^mae ales gina- 

 uEme Ts!ox"ts!aesa qaxs he-'mae LegEms laxa heEnxe. Wa, he^ma- 

 axs lae yipEmg'ale^lEma xls-'idLe qa dox^waLElesa ^naxwa bEgwa- 25 

 nEmx l§,LanEmasa ^nawalakwasa tsletsleqa. Wa, la^me Lagelile 

 Ts!ox"ts!aesa lax helk- lodEnoLEmalilasa xis^IdLe. Wa, g-il^mese 

 gwal doqwasoxs lae aLe^sta lax hek' lalasasa LEX'Exse. Wa, g'il- 

 ^mese la ElxLa-'ye Ts!o:^"ts!aesa lae dax-'itsE-wa yisa gwesEma^ye 

 ogMa lax ompas Ts!ox"ts!aesa. Wa, la ^nek'eda gwesEma^ye: 30 

 "K'lesLEs laLol, qast, Ts!ox"ts!aes, g'aEm ex-g'In gwex'sdEmk".'' 

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