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15 to the other. When they are all on, || he takes mats and spreads 
them over them, so that the | frost can not get at them, for he does not 
wish them to freeze. Now | itis called ‘staging for long cinquefoil- 
roots,” and it is also called | ‘staging on which long cinquefoil-roots 
are thrown.’ After this has been done, | he does the same, putting 
20 on the stage the || baskets with short roots; and after this has been 
done, he spreads | mats over them. Generally he does not put up 
one | basket of long cinquefoil-roots when the baskets are piled up; | 
and when there are many people in his tribe, he keeps out four 
baskets with short cinquefoil roots to cook them for the people; but |j 
25 more than one basket of long cinquefoil-roots is never kept out, for 
only the chiefs | eat the long cinquefoil-roots. The common people | 
eat the short roots. | 
1 Digging Sea-Milkwort.'—When the | plants first begin to grow and 
the tops begin to sprout, | the woman takes her digging-stick which 
she uses for clams, | and her small basket, and goes to a place where 
5 she has seen || milkwort growing. In the following year there is 
nothing to be seen in the springtime, | and she just digs for it. She 
sits down and pushes | the point of her digging-stick into the sand, 
and she pries up the sand. | Then she picks out the milkwort-roots 
15 laxs laé &x‘édxa lerl‘watyé qa‘s LEpEyindalés laq qa k!ésés 
lax’siwéda g*Ewésmisé liq, qaxs gwaq!nlaaq wiidala. Wa, larzm 
k faxdemilasasa Laxabats!é L!at!ebata laq. Wa, gflfmése gwa- 
20 texs laé dem neqemg‘itewégéxs laé Ax‘alilasa t!mxdemilasasa  t!é- 
tlegwats!é Llat!ebata. Wa, gil'mésé gwalexs laaxat! Lepryintsa 
feelwatyé lag. Wa, li q!tinalaqas k-!és lasa ‘nemsgEmé Laxaba- 
ts!e Llabat laxés la méalatela laxa Laxapdrmilé < ligtta. Wa, 
gflmésé qlénrmé gokulotaséxs laé axélaxa mosgemé t!et!E-- 
ewats!é Llanlebata qa‘s t!nqiilase‘wa. Wa, laré klés h&yaqax 
25 ‘nEMsgEma Laxabats!é Llabata qaxs léx‘a‘maéda g'ig’Egima‘yé 
LELAaxapg’bxa Laxabilise. Wa, lareda bebegwanEmg !ala‘mé 
tlex"tlaq*xa t!ex"sdsé. 
Digging Sea-Milkwort' (T's !osaxa hoq!walé).—Wi, hé‘maaxslaé gil 
q!waxEnxa laé rlaq temx-alisé oxti‘yasa q!waq!wixema laé 
axsedéda tsledaqaxés k‘lilakwéxa dzéeg'ayixa g°awéq!anemé 
LE‘wes lalaxamaxs laé qfs‘id qa‘s li laxés q!aétsE‘wé q!waxatsa 
5 hoq!walixa aipsryinxdé qaxs k'!leaisaé dogtt q!waxaxa q!waxEnxé 
qaxs 4fmae ts!dsElaq. Wa, la k!wagvalis qa‘s ts!nx"brtaliséx 
dbafyasés ts!osElaxa k'!ilakwe. Wa, li k!wet!eqdlisaxa ég-isé. 
Wa, hé‘mis li menx‘‘idaatséxa hoq!walé qa‘s li ts!exts!alas lixa 
— 
1Glaux maritima, v. Fernald. 
