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68 of the Sparrow Society. As soon as they come \ into the winter 

 dance-house, they dress up in the way in which | heralds always 



70 dress. As soon as they have finished, they come out || of the winter 

 dance-house, and go to the other end of the village. | Then they step 

 into the door of the house, and stand inside of the door. | Then one of 

 them, the speaker, says: 



"We wUl try to restore to his senses Nanogwis, shamans. | 

 "We will tame Nanogwis, shamans. || 



75 " We wUl quiet Nanogwis, shamans. | 

 "We wiU heal Nanogwis, shamans." | 



It is only one of them who speaks; and as soon as he has finished 

 the I four ways of caUing, the three companions | of the speaker say 



80 all together, "You will go in hefore dark, shamans." || And the mem- 

 bers of the Sparrow Society, who are invited, always say when the 

 speech of the herald is finished, | "We shall go now;" and the heralds 

 always | speak this way, going to all the houses. \ Some of the mem- 

 bers of the Sparrow Society go at once into the winter-dance | house; 

 and the boys of the Sparrow Society beat fast time for the members 



85 of the Sparrow Society, || when they go in. When all the members 

 of the wSparrow Society come in, going together, | the Sparrow boys 

 beat fast tune, and say at the same time "Hai hai!" | The Sparrow 

 boys only stop beating time when almost all | the members of the 

 Sparrow Society are in the house. As soon as the heralds have called 



68 laxa ts!agats!e g'okwa, lae hex'^idaEm qlwalax'^ida laxes heniEna- 

 hiEm qlwalax'exs qeqasElgisae. Wa, giPmese gwala lae hoquwElsa 



70 laxa 1s!agats!e gokwa qa^s la laxa apsbalasasa g'ox^dEms. Wii, la 

 hogwiL laxa tlEX'Ilasa g'okwe qa^s qlwag'alile lax awlLElasa t!Ex"ila. 

 Wa, la ^nek'eda ^nEmokwe yaqlEntEma^yas: — 



"La^mEns uanaqEmaLai', pepEx^lai', lax Nanogwisai'. 

 La^niEns tEmElqwaLai', pepExSlai', lax Nanogwisai'. 



75 La^niEns yalaLai', pepExalai', lax Nanogwisai'. 



La^niEus lielik-aLai', pepExalai', lax Nanogwisai'." 

 Wa, la^me ^nEmox"^ma yaq!Ent!ala. Wa, g'lPmese ^wilxtocLxa 

 mox^widala qayalaene^s lae ^nemadzaqweda yudukwe qaswutsa 

 yaq'.EntEma-'yas, ^neta: "NanEmts!i\EmLEs, pepExSlai'." Wa, la 



80 hemEnala^meda gwegvidzaxa qasasE^we ^nek'Exs lae qlulbe walds- 

 masa qeqasElgise: "HeLEnu'x" gwiilaLe." Wa, la hex-sa-'mese 

 gwek' laleda qeqasElgise laxtolsalaxa ^naxwa gig'okwa. Wa, 

 la^me hex'^ida^ma waokwe gwegtidza la hogweLEla laxa ts'.iigatsle 

 gokwa. Wa, la^ma gwagugwedzEme LexLexa qaeda gwegudziixs 



85 lae hogwiLEla. Wa, gil^mese ^vPlaeLeda gwegOdza laxes lalloxma- 

 lae lae t'.Emsalodeda gwixgugwedzEme qa^s ^nEuiadzaqwe hai haixa. 

 Wa, al^mese gwala gwagugwedzEni LexLexaxs lae Elaq ^vi^laeLeda 

 ^uaxwa gwegildza. Wa, g'U^mese moplene^steda qeqasElgise lana- 



