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10 [himself] goes || and takes a basket, goes down to the beach, | picks 
up stonés, and puts them into the basket. He puts in as many as 
he can | carry. Then he stops putting them in and carries them in 
one hand | up the beach into his house. He puts | them down at 
the place where he intends to work at the unripe viburnum-berries. 
15 When || he thinks there are enough stones, he stops. | You know 
already everything about the ways of building a fire to heat | stones, 
for there is only one way of heating stones for steaming | and for 
heating water for steaming. The | man has to go out to get drift- 
20 wood and stones || for this purpose, because his wife is working at the 
viburnum-berries. Whenhe has finished building the fire, | he puts on 
the stones, but he does not light the fire under them. Then | the 
man goes to help his wife, who is sitting by the side of the mat on 
which he has poured | out the viburnum-berries; for the woman 
does that first after she | has eaten, after coming home. She goes 
25 and spreads a new mat, || takes. the large berry-basket, and | 
pours the viburnum-berries on the mat. She does the same | with the 
front-basket and with the medium- | sized basket. Now her baskets 
are empty. | Then she takes the smallest basket, the front-basket, || 
30 and puts it down on her left-hand side. She sits down next to the | 
mat on which the viburnum-berries are, and she takes a bunch of | 
berries and picks the berries off the stems, and she puts them into 
10 Emxaaxs laé ix*édxa lpxa‘yé, qa‘s li lints!és laxa L!mmatisé, qa‘s 
li xpx"ts!ilasa t!ésemé laxa Ipxa‘tyé. Wa, a‘misé gwanala, qa‘s 
lakwéséxs laé gwal xpx"tslalaqéxs Jaé k:!oqtilisaq, qa‘s g-axé 
k !ox‘wtisdésrlaq, qats gaxé k logwérelaq laxés gokwe. Wi, la 
k:!ox‘walilas laxés t!ats!eltsélastaxa k-!elxé t!elsa. Wa, la‘mé 
15 héx‘idamrm gwatexs laé kdtaq lanm hélalés xegwanemé t!ésema. 
Wa, lazrmias ‘naxwa q!atelax gwégvilasasa lai Ieqwélaxa ts!ats!El- © 
q!waastaxa t!ésemé qaxs ‘nami‘lila‘maé gwayi‘lilasa laxa nek‘avé 
LE‘wa q!olixés q!dlasoLaxs laé ts!ats !elq !lwaxa tlésemé. Wa, héem 
lag‘ilas héx‘siinm la éaxrléda begwankmaxa q!éxalé LE‘wa t !sEmaxs 
20 laé genemas éGaxelaxa t!nlsé. Wa, gilfmeésé gwal‘alila leqwixs 
laé mokityalaxa t!@semaxs k-!és‘maé ménabrwakwaxs laéda brgwa- 
neEmé g’Ox'widxés genEmaxs laé k!tinxélilxa te‘watyé la qebEdza- 
lilatsa t!else, yixs hé‘maé gil Ax‘étsd’sa ts!edaqaxs g’alaé gwal 
Lipxwaxs g’alaé g'ix nii‘nakwaxs laé ix‘édxa Eldzowé lé*wa‘ya, qa‘s 
25 teplalilég. Wa, la ax‘édxa ‘walasé niig’é t!elts!ala Ipxatya, qa‘s la 
qrebrdzotsa t!elsé lixa Lebelé leSwatya. Wa, laxaé hémmxat! gwe- 
x“idxa nanaigemé Ipxatya. Wa, laxaé hérm gwéx‘idxés hélo- 
magremé Ipxa‘ya. Wa, la‘mé ‘witla la lopemts!’wa larlxa‘yas; 
wii, li ax‘édxa ‘imayagatyasés larlxa‘yéxés nanaagemé Ipxa‘ya, 
30 qa‘s hing-alilés laxés gemxagawalilaxs laé k!tinxélitxa t!eldzedzala 
LEbét léwatya. Wa, li dax‘idxa nexvala t!elsa, qa‘s k!tlpaléxa 
tlelsé laxés t!eldzanowé, qa‘s li k-!ats!dlasa t!rlsé laxa nanaaigemé. 
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