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and feels for the stones, | which are in the bottom, under the 
boiled salal-berries; and when || she gets hold of a stone, she takes a 
spoon and scrapes off the jam that | sticks to the stone. After 
scraping it off, she puts | (the stone) into the dish; and she continues 
doing this with the other stones. | When all the stones are out, she 
takes the dish with the stones, | goes out, and throws them out of the 
house. Then || she goes back with the dish and puts it down. Then 
she takes her tongs | and stirs the salal-berries. She stirs them for a 
long time. Then the | boiled salal-berries become liquid. Next she 
takes a spoon | and dips it into the pounded elderberries, and pours 
these into the boiled | salal-berries; and she continues stirrmg them 
with the tongs. When | all the pounded elderberries have been 
thrown in, it gets thick. | After finishing this, she takes her drying- 
frame, (the same one) that is used in making elderberry-cakes, | and 
she also uses the (same) measure that she used to measure the elder- 
berry-cakes, | and also the skunk-cabbage leaves heated over the 
fire, for she does everything | with the boiled salal-berries, making 
them into cakes, as she did when || making cakes of the elderberries; 
and she also ties them into bundles | with shredded cedar-bark in the 
way in which she tied the dried elderberries. | Thus they are tied 
into bundles with shredded cedar-bark, and they are put into a 
(square) box, which is | called ‘‘salal-berry box”’ because it contains 
tléspmaxs laé axsédxa Icats!enaq@ qa‘s kixfléxa t!nqiixs laé 
k!wek!titspméxa tlésemé. Wa, g'ilfmésé ‘wilg-Eltsemxs laé k !ip- 
tslots laxa loq!we. Wa, ax‘sitmésé hé gwégilaxa wadkweé t!ésr- 
ma. Wa, gilfmése ‘witlostéda t!ésemaxs laé dagvililaxa t!éts!ala 
loq!wa qa‘s li gtiqEwelsaq lax L!asanf‘yasés gokwé. Wii, g-ax- 
‘mesé k‘alaxa loq!wé qa‘s kagvalilés. Wa, la ax‘édxés ts!ésrala 
qa‘s xwet!edés laxa Llopé neklita. Wa, li gégilitexs lae Ala- 
k lala la ‘waipaléda Llopé nek!tta. Wa, li axcédxa kats!enaqgé 
qa‘s tséqés laxa q!welkwe ts!éx'ina qa‘s li tséqrlas laxa L!opé 
nektitta. Wa, li hémmnalazm xwétasa tslésnala lag. Wéa, g-il- 
smésé ‘witlaqéda q!wélkwé ts!éx‘ina laqéxs laé genx*‘ida. Wa, 
eilmése gwatexs laé ax‘edxés k: litk: !edéséxés Ingedzox"dixa ts!én- 
dzowe. Wa, héemxaawis mernyaydsés menyayixa ts!éndzoweé. 
Wa, laxaé penkwa k'!ek:!adk!wa laxa Ingwilé, yixs 4*maé naqEem- 
e@ iltd laxés la gweg'ilasxa L!opé nek!itexs laé Inqaq laxés gwegila- 
saxs lix'dé leqaxa ts!endzowé. Wi, hérmxaawisée gwiilaxs laé yaél- 
tsemalaxa k-adzekwé laxaax gwiilaasasa ts!éndzowaxs laé yaél- 
tspmalaxa k‘aidzekwé. Wa, laxaé xetsemé hints!mwasaxa Léga- 
dis nrgtidznwats!@ xetsema, yixs laé@ gits!ewax"sa nxgtidzowe 
