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pries it off the rock. | As soon as it turns over, she pulls the moss apart 27 
and pulls out the | fern-roots, which she throws into her basket. 
She continues | doing so; and when her basket is full, || she carries it 
home. | Then she puts it down by the side of the fire. | 30 
Digging Erythronium.—Now I will speak again | about the 1 
erythronium, how it is dug; for the | woman takes the same digging- 
stick that is used for short cinquefoil-roots, and the back-protecting 
mat, and her | cedar-bark belt, and she takes a small-meshbed flat- 
bottomed || basket; and she goes to the bank of the river, for that is 5 
the only place | where the erythronium-plant grows. As soon as she 
arrives where it grows, | when the leaves first come out of the ground, 
she carries a large | horse-clam shell. Then she takes her back- 
protecting mat and | spreads it over her back, and she takes her 
cedar-bark belt and || puts it on over the mat, putting it around her 10 
waist. Then | she takes a large horse-clam shell and her digging- 
stick, and she | takes her small-meshed flat-bottomed basket and puts 
it down on her | left-hand side. Then she sits on the end of the | 
mat and pushes the end of the digging-stick into the ground and pries 
up the soil. || Then she scrapes the soil with her clam-shell | and picks 15 
out the erythronium plants from the soil and throws them | into her 
gil'mésé nereélaxs laé bél‘idxa p!elemse. Wii, a‘mésé la Inkflaxa 27 
tek!wafyé qa‘s lé Lex"ts!flas laxés lexpla. Wa, li héx‘sizm 
eweovllaxa wadkwe. Wa, gilsmésé qot!e tmgwats!és lpxa‘tya laé 
kloqwalaxés Ingwats!é Ipxatya qa‘s li naé‘nakwa laxés g‘dkwé. 30 
Wa, la k logiindlisasés lngwats!é lpxa‘tya lax Imgwilasés g-Okwé. 
Digging Erythronium.— Wii, la‘mésen édzaqwal gwagwéx's- | 
‘alal Hixa x‘aasx‘Ent!axs laé ts!osase‘wa yixs hé*maé Ax‘étsd‘sa 
ts!edaqés ts!loyayaxa t!px"sdsé LE‘wis LEbég‘atyé lé‘watya LE‘wis 
drnédzowé wiiség'anowa. Wi, hé‘misa t!olt!sx"seEmé LEq!Exsd 
lexatya. Wa, lai qis‘ida lax ogwiig‘ilisasa wiwa qaxs léx‘a‘maé 5 
q!waxatsa x‘aisx'Ent!é. Wéa, gil‘mésé lag'aa lax q!ayasaxs g’alaé 
q!waq!ixetox'widé yisx‘inas, wi, li dalaxa ‘walasé xalaétsdx 
met !ana‘yéx. Wi, hé‘mis gil &x‘étsd‘sés Lebégatyé le*wa‘ya qa‘s 
LEbégindés. Wii, li ix*édxés denédzowé wtiség'anowa qa‘s qEné- 
gindés laxés Lebégatyé lé*watya. Wii, li witiségoyots. Wa, la 10 
ixfédxa ‘wilasé xalaétsox met!ana‘yéx LE‘wis ts!oyayowé, laxaé 
ax‘édxés tlolt!ex'semé LEq!pxsd lpxafya qa‘s hiangvalisés laxés 
geEmxotemalisé. Wa, lawisté k!wadzddEx dGba‘yasés LEbég-a‘yé 
féwatya, wii, li L!enxbetalisas dba‘tyasés ts!oyayowé qa‘s k!wet!é- 
déq. Wa, hé‘mis la xElpElg'ayaatsésa ‘walasé xalaés lixa t!ek-a. 15 
Wa, la menmaqaxa x‘aasx’Ent!é lixa t!eka qa‘s la ts!mxts!alas 
laxés lpxela. Wa, gilfmésé wikwa x‘aasx‘Entliixs laé ‘nemal‘i- 
