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pours some water into it, until it is half full. She puts it down | be- 
tween the square box and the fire. Then she takes the large | long- 
handled ladle, dips it into the currants, and pours (them) | into the 
square box; and when one-half of the currants are in the box || one- 
half are still in the large dish containing the cleaned berries. | 
Then she takes her tongs, picks up the red-hot stones, | and dip them 
quickly into the water in the steaming-box and | puts them into the 
currants. She putsinsix red-hot | stones. Then she dips more of the 
cleaned currants with her large || long-handled ladle out of the dish 
containing the cleaned currants | and puts them over the red-hot 
stones. She only | stops when they are allin. Then she again takes 
her tongs and again picks | up red-hot stones, which she first puts 
into | the water in the steaming-box, and she puts these on the 
currants. || She only stops when six stones have been put in. | Then 
she takes a mat and covers over the currants that she is steaming. | 
She leaves them this way all day and all night. Then the woman | 
goes into the woods looking for broad skunk-cabbage leaves; and 
when she has found some, | she breaks off the broadest leaves. | 
When she has many of these, she digs up spruce-roots, which she | 
splits in two and which she ties in the middle. When this is done, 
she carries| everything home and puts it down at the left side of the 
eixts!odésa Swapé liq qa negodyoxsdalés. Wai, li hanagdts lax 
iwagawa‘tyasa k‘!imyaxta LE‘wa lmgwilé. Wa li ax‘édxa ‘walasé 
eilt!exiala k-ats!enaqa qa‘s tséqés lixa q!éséna qa‘s li tséts!alas 
lixa k'limyaxta. Wa, gil‘mésé nexséda q!éséna la tseyadzems 
laxa k-‘!imyaxta LE‘wa go éts!4 lixa k-imdrgwats!é ‘wilas loq!wa, 
laé ix‘édxés tslésnala qa‘s k-!lip!édés lixa xiIxsemala t!ésrma, 
qa‘s lai hanax‘wid hiapstents lax ‘wabrts!4wasa q!dlats!é, qa‘s 
li klip!eqas laxa q!éséna. Wa, la q!ev!nsgema x‘Ix'ExsEmala 
tlésem la k-lip!gemséq. Wa, laxaé ét!éd tséxitsa ‘walasé g‘il- 
tlextala k‘ats!enaq laxa Ipx"ts!ala kimdrk® q!éséna, qa‘s léxat! 
tsék nyints laxa la axeqrlaxa x‘ix'exsEmala t!éseEma. Wai, al‘mésé 
ewalpxs laé ‘witla. Wa, laxaé ét!éd Ax‘édxés ts!éstila, qa‘s k:!ip!é- 
dés lixaaxa x‘ixrxsemala t !ésema, qa‘s léxat! g‘ig-alasila hipstents 
lax ‘wabrts!iwasa q!dlats!e. Wa, la k !ip!ek-as lax dkitya‘yasa q !é- 
séna. Wai, al*mésé gwalexs laé ‘witléda q!uL!esgemé t!ésema. Wai, 
li ix*@dxa le*wa‘yé qa‘s ‘naxtimdés laxa q!dlasm‘wasa q!éséna. Wa, 
Ax'sii‘mésé hé gwaélxa ‘nila Le‘wa ganuLé. Wa, la‘méséda ts!edaqé 
laxa a1!éalixa iwidzoxtowé k:!nk:!adk!wa. Wa, gil‘mésé q!aqéxs 
laé plap!ox‘'wEeqrewaxa awadzoxtowé laxa k'!zk'!adk!wa. Wé, 
gil‘mésé q!eyoLexs laé ‘lap!idxa L!op!ek-asa iléwasé, qa‘s pak: !ex- 
sendéq qa‘s yiLoyodés lag. Wa, gil'mésé gwalexs gaxaé gemxE- 
laq, qa‘s li né®nakY laxés g'Okwé, qa‘s li gemxeEndlisas laxés In- 
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