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10 elderberries. || When these are also off, she throws away the stems, 
and | continues doing so with the other elderberries. When they are 
all | off, she goes to pick more elderberries. In the morning, when 
daylight comes, | she does the same as she did before when she went 
15 to pick elderberries; | and when her baskets are full, she || ties down 
the top and she carries them down river on her back, | carrying one 
basket at a time; and she does the same as she did with the | 
elderberries she picked first, stripping the berries. When | they are 
all off, she puts them into the baskets; and | when this is done, she 
20 spreads a mat over them so that the || soot of the roof can not drop 
on them during the night. In the morning, when daylight comes, | 
she takes her paddle, goes to her small canoe and | launches it, in order 
to go and get fire-wood. When she reaches | the place where there 
is much driftwood, she puts it aboard her small canoe; | and when 
25 it is full, she goes home. When || she reaches the beach of her house, 
she takes out of the canoe the | driftwood that she has obtained; and 
when it is all on shore, she asks her | husband to carry it up | into 
the house. Then her husband goes and | carries it up into his house; 
30 and his wife goes, taking her clam-digging stick || and a shell of the 
horse-clam. She sits down on the floor in the | middle of the house, 
and with the end of her digging-stick digs up | the ground. Then she 
10 gil'emxaawisé ‘wilgilexié laé ts!mx*édex ts!énanis. Wi, ax"sii- 
‘mese hé gwégilaxa wadkwe ts!éx'ina. Wa, gilfmésé ‘witla la 
xigikwaxs laé ét!éd ts!éx-axa ts!éx‘iniixa la nax“idxa gaala, wii, 
laxaé Aum hé gwegiilés gilx-dé gwégilasexs lax'dé ts!éx-axa ts!é- 
xina. Wa, gilfemxaawisé qoqtt!é ts!éts!énats!is lanlxatyaxs laé 
15 t!emak‘iyendalaq. Wa, g’axé OxLatosElaq laxa wa. Wai, larm- 
xae ‘nalinremsgememkaq. Wa, laxaé hépm gwex‘‘idgés g-ilx dé 
gweg'ilasxés g‘ilxdé ts!enanemxs lad xix“ideq. Wa, g-ilfmésé 
éwitla la xig‘ektixs laé ‘witla la laaxts!alas laxa lazlxatyé. Wa, 
gilfmésé gwatexs laé nakityindalasa lewa‘ye laq qa k !esés q!ip!n- 
20 qrlaso‘sa q!waldbrsaxa la ganota. Wa, g‘il‘mésé ‘nax“idxa ga- 
alixs laé Ax*édxés sé*wayowe qa‘s li laxés xwaxwagimé. Wé§i, 
li wifx"stEndrgq qa‘s li dnéqax q!éxala. Wa, gil'mése lag-aa lax 
qlayasasa ql!aq!expmaxs laé moxsaq laxés xwaxwagtime. Wai, 
eil’mésé qot!é xwaxwagtimaséxs gaxaé ni‘nakwa. Wa, g'il’mésé 
25 o-ax‘alis laxa L!ematisasés g’dkwaxs laé hex‘idarm moltodxés 
q!éxaneme. Wai, gilfmésé ‘wicloltaxs laé héx-‘idarm 4xk:!alaxés 
lafwiinemé qa lis wéx'wiisdésplaxa q!éxalé qa lis wég‘itelaq 
laxés gokwée. Wi, la‘mésé wix'wtsdésé la‘wtinrmaséq qa‘s la 
wig iLElaq laxés g‘okwe. Wa, lata genrmas &x‘edxés k lilakwé 
30 refwa ‘walasé xalaétsox met!anatye. Wi, li k!wag-alit laxa 
Awagawalilasés g’Okwé. Wa, li ts!mx‘walilaxés k-!ilakwé laxa 
Awinagwile. Wa, hé‘mis g-ig‘ililatséxs laé bal‘itsés q!waq!wax’- 
