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protecting mat. | Now she works while sheis sitting. She pokes down 
her digging-stick so that | the poimt is one span deep in the ground. | 
Then she pries up the clover | easily, turnmg down the stick, for she 
does not wish to break the || clover-roots, and she pokes it again into 
the ground so that it stands up, | and she picks out the clover-roots 
and throws them into her flat-bottomed basket. When | she has 
picked all the clover-roots out of the soil, she | pries up some more 
clover with her digging-stick, and she again | puts the digging-stick 
standing where she is going to pry up || the roots next time, after she 
has finished picking out what she has just pried up; | and she con- 
tinues to do so. | She does this every day, for sometimes | it takes the 
woman five days to work over her | clover-garden when it is large. 
In the evening || she takes the mats and pours the clover on several | 
mats, and covers it with others where she has dug it up; | and in the 
morning she takes the mat-covering off and | spreads it out, and 
scatters the clover-roots on them so as to get dry, if | it should be a 
fine day in the morning; but if it should be a bad day in the || morn- 
ing, then she does not take off the mat-covering until | the sky clears 
up, for it is said that it is not good for the clover | to be dried in the 
house. They say that if it is dried in the house, | it shrmks up; but 
latmé k!wak!wasdénaqexs laé ts!Ex"bEtalisaxés ts!oyayowe qa 
‘nemp!enkés laxens q!wiq!wax'ts!ana‘yéx yix ‘walabrtalidzasasa 
Oba‘yas ts!dyaydséxs laé k!wét!eqflisaxa LEx'sEmé laxés k° !éts!é- 
na‘yé éaltsilaxs laé k!wet!édeq qaxs gwaq!elaaq welts!aléda 
LEx’sEmé. Wai, li ét!éd ts!ex"bEtalisaxés ts!Oyayowé qa Laéséséxs 
laé meEnx*‘idxa LEx’sEmé qa‘s ts!Exts!Alés laxés lpxaya. Wa, gil 
‘mésé ‘wilgilk'ampnaxa LEx'sEmé laxa dzeqwaxs laé ét!éd 
k!wét!eqalisaxa LEx'sEmé yisa ts!loyayowe. Wi, laxaé étléd 
ts!px"betalisaxés ts!oyayowé qa Laésés lax ét!édLé k!wét!mqalé- 
dzemies qo lat gwaln menmagqalxés la al k!wét!mqalédzema. 
Wa, lapmxaé fem naqrmgitewexés gilxdé gwégilasa. Wa, 
ax'sifmésé la hé gwégrilaxs laé ts!osaxa ‘né‘nala yixs ‘nal'nem- 
p!enaé sek:!axsé ‘nalisa tsedaqé senyenbendxa ‘nila ts!dsaxés 
LEg'Edzowaxs léxedzéé. Wai, gilmaxwa‘mese dziqwaxs laé 4pm 
axtédxa léglwafyé qa‘s li gtgEdzdtsa LEx'spmé laxa wadkwé 
lezlwafya qa‘s naxtiyindésa wadkwe laq laxés ts!oyasaq. Wa, 
gilnaxwa'mésé laxa gaaliixs laé ax‘édxa naxtiya‘yé leElwa‘ya qa‘s 
Leplaliséq. Wi, li tendzdtsa Lex’spmé laq qa‘s x‘iKiliséqéxs 
égidzalaéda ‘nalixa gaala. Wa, gil'mésé yax'delxeléda ‘nalixa 
gaalixs laé hewixa &xodex naxtiyatyas lérlwa‘ya, lilaa lax 
eg'iddx‘widex'demriasa ‘nala, qaxs k lésaanl éka Lex’skmaxs 
xilalélemaé laxa gOkwé. Giil‘em‘laé x‘ilalélem laxa g dkwaxs 
laé héx‘idamrm xtls‘ida. Wa, la‘laé k'!és xtlénaktlaxs x‘ilalé- 
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