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and throws them into | the small basket which stands on the ground 
infront of her. She continues doing so || while she is digging. When 
her basket is full, she goes | home, carrying the basket in her hands. | 
Digging Bracken'- Root.—The woman | takes her back-protecting 
mat and her cedar-bark belt, | and her digging-stick which she uses for 
digging clams. Then || she goes to a place where she knows fern is 
growing and where | the soil is soft. As soon as she arrives, she 
spreads the mat over her back | and she puts on the woven cedar- 
bark belt. After | she has done so, she sits down on one end of the 
mat, holding ‘the | digging-stick, and she pushes the point of the 
stick into the ground. || Then she digs up the ground; and when she 
reaches the fern-root, | she follows the whole length of the root, for it 
is very | long; and when she reaches the soft end, she | breaks it off; 
and if it is very long, she coils it up. She continues | doing so as she 
is digging. When she has enough, she takes a || spruce-root and ties 
it around the middle, and she folds the roots up in a bundle, | which 
she carries on her back to her house, using her digging-stick as a 
walking-stick, for the load of fern-roots is really heavy when the old 
woman finds many. | 
Digging Fern’- Root.—The woman takes her | yew-wood digging- 
stick and a large basket, | which she carries on her back. She uses 
her digging-stick as a cane. Then she walks, | looking for fern-root. 
lalaxamaxs hanésaé lax nkEqmmalisas. Wéai, 4x‘si‘mésé hé gwée-i- 
laxs ts!ésaé. Wi, gilfmésé qot!é lexeliiséxs laé ni‘nakwa laxés 
ew okwé kOxk !dtelaxés hoq!waléats!é lalaxama. 
Digging Bracken-Root (Sakwiixa sigtimé).—Hénm &x‘éts0‘sa ts!n- 
daqés Lebég'a‘tyé te*watya LESwées denédzowé wtség-anowa. Wai, 
hé‘méstaLés k-!ilakwéxés dzég'ayowaxa g’iweq!anpmé. Wi, la 
qas‘id qa‘s li laxés q!atsewé q!waxatsa sagtiimé, yixa dem 
telq!its tlek'a. Wa, giilfmésé lag'aa ligqéxs laé Lebég-intsés 
lewa‘yé qa‘s qukiyindésés dmnédzowé wiiség'ano lag. Wi, gil'mésé 
gwala laé k!wadzodex apsbafyasés Lebéga‘yé lé*watya dalaxés 
klilakwé. Wi, la q!imtbrtrlsax obatyasés k 'ilakwé qa‘s ‘lap !é- 
déxa dzekwa. Wa, g‘ilfmésé lak-!mndxa sigtimaxs laé 4nm hegti- 
trné labrtmnéx ‘wasgemasasa L!op!nk-asa sagtmé qaxs Alak:!alaé 
gilsgilt!@ Llop!ek'as. Wa, gfl'mésé laig'aa laxa q!wayots!axs laé 
ilts!endeq qa‘s q!alx‘widéqéxs Lomaé giilt!a. Wa, li héx-siizm 
gwéegilaxs sikwaé. Wa, gil'mésé héloteqéxs laé ax‘éd laxa 
Llop!ek-asa Aléwasé qa‘s qEnoyodés laqéxs laé gwanaqi‘lilakwa. 
Wa, li oxtalaqéxs laé ni‘nak® laxés g'dkwé sék' !aqrlaxés k: !ilakwe 
qaxs Alak'l!alaé giint!éda sagtimaxs 6xLaakwaaxs q!EyOLanEMaasa 
laglk!wana‘yé. | 
Digging Fern-Root (Nésaxa tsakd6s). — Wi, héem Aax‘étsd‘sa 
ts!edagés L!enq!ek!iné k:!ilakwa LE‘wes ‘walasé lpxatya. Wéa, 
la Oxtala. Wi, Lata sék:!aqrlaxés k!ilakwe. Wa, lai qas‘id qa‘s 
1 Pteridium aquilinum. 2 Dryopteris spinulosa dilatata. 
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