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feel well again, because | they are no longer drunk. That is all 
about this. | . 
Digging Carrots..—The woman takes this (cedar-bark basket), | the 
yew-wood digging-stick, her back-protecting | mat and her cedar- 
bark belt. She goes to the | rocks, for carrots generally grow on 
rocks where there is grass || on the points of land. When she reaches 
the point where many carrots | were growing the past season (for the 
woman only goes there if she knows | that there were many of them, 
for they have not come out yet), she takes her | back-protecting mat 
and puts it on her back, and she takes her | belt and puts it over it 
around her waist, then || she ties the mat on her back. She takes her 
digging-stick | and sits down on the rock. Then she puts her basket 
down in | front of her, and she peels off the grass and the roots from 
the rocks with her yew-wood | digging-stick, so that it turns over 
and the roots show. Then | she picks out the carrots and throws 
them into her basket. || After she has selected them from among the 
roots of (other) plants, | she takes her digging stick again (some women 
call it the | peeling-stick for carrots) and she does | as she did before 
when she peeled it off from the rock. After filling her carrot-basket, | 
she puts it on her back. Generally she uses the peeling-stick for 
carrots as a walking-stick. || She goes home to her house; and when she 
méx‘édé. Wai, gilfmésé ts!mx-‘idexs laé és‘ek: la bebrgwanzrma laé 
gwal wtinala. Wa, lanm gwal laxeéq. 
” Digging Carrots (T's!dsixa xetem!).—Wii, hé*mis &x‘étsdsa ts!E- 
dagé LEfwis L!pmq!ek'!ené ts!oyayowa. Wa, hé*misés Lébeg‘atyé 
téwatya LE‘wis denédzowé wtiség'anowa. Wa, lai qiséila laixa 
Awinak!wa qaxs hé‘maé q!tinala q!waxatsa xEtxEt!éeda k !édek!wa 
laxa @waélbafyé. Wa, gilfmésé lag'aa lax q!ayasasa xEtxet!a 
q!waxa ipspyinx'dé qaxs a*maéda ts!edaqé hérm lagitexs q!ain- 
laagéxs q!énemaé laq qaxs k'!és*maé q!wax‘ida. Wa, li ax‘édxés 
LEbég'atyé téfwatya qa‘s LEbég'indés. Wa, li ax‘édxés denédzoweé 
wiiseég’anowa qa‘s qenég‘indés laqéxs laé wiiség‘oyodes. Wi, la‘mé 
qaqak'Enax Lebég'atyas lefwatya. Wii, la ax‘edxés ts!dyayowé 
qa‘s k!wagraalé. Wa, lanm ha‘né xetxet!aats!as Llabat lax neqr- 
malais. Wa, la wlok!igilodxa kk let!emé yisés L!emq!ek:'!iné 
tsloyayo qa neLelés qa ‘naxwés néedéda Liop!nk'é. Wa, la 
mEnmaqaxa xXEtxEt!a qa‘s ts!exts!ilés laxa Lilabaté. Wa, 
gilkmésé ‘wilgilqéda ogiiq!émase L!op!eksa q!wasq!tixeliixs laé 
ét!éd dax‘idxés ts!loyayowé yixs LéqElaéda wadkwé ts!édaqas 
Lidk!tigElayoxa xEtxet!a lag. Wa, laxaé dpm nrg’ Eltpwéexés 
gilx'de gwéx*‘idaasa. Wa, gilfmésé qot!é xnt!asis L!abataxs laé 
OxLEx“idEq. Wai, la q!imala sek !aarlaxés L!ok!waydxa xEtxet!a. 
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