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the woods into the house. She puts it down on the floor, | not too 
close to the pile of wood and stones. She does not set fire || to it 
until daylight. As soon as the wood is burnt up, she | takes her 
tongs, which are in readiness on the floor of the house. She also 
takes a long-handled | large ladle and alarge dish. If | there are many 
elderberries, there are three, or even four, | large dishes for holding 
the boiled elderberries. This is all || sheneeds for her work. When 
the stones are red-hot, | she takes her tongs and picks out what is left | 
of the drift-wood and the small pieces of charcoal. When | these 
are all out of the fire from the stones, she levels down the top of the | 
red-hot stones so that it is level; and after this has been done, she || 
takes the dead fern-fronds and sprinkles a little water over them, 
just enough to | dampen them; and after this has been done, she 
throws them on the red-hot | stones. When these are thickly 
covered with dead fern-fronds, she takes the | broad leaves of skunk- 
cabbage and spreads them over the dead fern-fronds as smoothly as 
possible; | and she bends the edges of the skunk-cabbage leaves in at 
the sides || of the hole that she has dug; and she only stops when she 
has four layers of | skunk-cabbage leaves on top of the fern-fronds. 
After doing so, she | takes her elderberry-basket, and she pours the 
berries over the | skunk-cabbage leaves; and when all have been 
poured on, she takes many | skunk-cabbage leaves and spreads them 
laxa k'lesé nexwala laxa t!éqwabnegwile. Wa, alfmése menabo- 
5 tsa gtlta laqéxa la Max‘‘idxa gaala. Wa, gilfmésé xiqostaxs laé 
ixedxés k:!ipralaa qa g'axés gwalél k‘adéla. Wa, hé‘misa gilt !ex- 
Lala ‘walas k-ats!enaqa. Wa, hé‘misa ‘walasé loq!wa. Wa, gcil- 
‘mésé q!énema ts!éxinixs laé q!iinala yaduxtixta Loxs mEwex- 
Laéda awawe dzégats!éxa ts!éxima lonlq!wa. Wi, hépm waxé 
ix*éxstsEswas qa’s é@axalayaé. Wa, gilfmése memenitsemx~“idéda 
t!ésemaxs laé ax‘édxés k‘lipralaa qa‘s k:!ips*alax‘idéxa x ‘Ix’p- 
qlayawafyasa qléxalé LeSwa am‘Emayastowe ts!oma. Wa, gil 
‘mése ‘wile ilqéda t!ésemaxa giltixs laé ‘nemak‘Eyindxa xix°Ex- 
sEmala t!ésEma qa ‘nemakwyés. Wa, giil‘mésé gwalexs laé 
ixfédxa gemsé qa‘s xaL!ex“idé télxngELEyintsa S‘wapé laq qa 
delxés.. Wa, g:ilfmésé gwatexs laé Ipxryindalas laxa x‘ix'ExsE- 
mala t!ésema. Wa, gil'mése li wikwa gemsaxs laé Axédxa 
awaxtowé k:lek !adkhwa qa‘s aék'!@ Lepryindalas laxa gpmsé. 
Wii, laxaé ék'!ebax“idé dbafyasa k-!ek !adk!wa lax wax'sané- 
qwasa ‘labrekweé, wi alfmésé gwalexs laé modzekwaléda k !n- 
kladk!wa lax Okwayatyasa gemsé. Wa, gilfmésé gwalnxs laé 
k loqtlilaxés tsléts!énats!@ larlxatya qa‘s li giiqmyindalas laixa 
kek !ladk!wa. Wa, g:ilfmésé ‘wilts!4xs laé Ax‘édxa q!énemé k:'!n- 
k ladk!wa qa‘s léxat! Lepryindalas lax dkttya‘yasa ts!éxina. Wa, 
