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house. | Then she calls her husband and her children, or, if |} she has 
no children, she calls her friends, to come and eat | barnacles. When 
they come and sit down, she spreads | mats in front of those who are 
to eat the barnacles. Then the woman goes down to the | beach of 
the house and picks up stones and carries them up. | She carries them 
into the house and puts them down || where she sits down, and she 
gives to those who are to eat the barnacles, each two stones. | Then 
she pours out the barnacles in front of those | whom she inyited. 
Then those who are to eat the barnacles put | one of the stones down 
on the floor. That is the one on which they will break the barnacles; | 
and they take a barnacle in the left hand and put it on || the stone 
on which it is to be broken; and they take the hammer- | stone in the 
right hand and strike the barnacle and break its | shell. Then they 
eat the edible part. They keep on | doing so as they are eating the 
barnacles; and | when they have finished, they do just as I have told 
before, || when I talked about the way they do when the guests finish 
eating barnacles at a barnacle-feast. | That is all about this. | 
Cryptochiton.—As soon as the tide is low, (the woman) takes her | 
small basket and her digging-stick for cryptochiton and she goes 
down to the | rocky beach. Then she looks under stones on the rocky 
beach; | and when she sees a cryptochiton, she pushes the crypto- 
Wii, héx‘idatmésé Lé‘lalaxés la‘wtnrmé Lefwis saisemé. Wii, gil 
‘mésé k:!eds sasemxs laé Le‘lalaxés “né‘nemodkwe qa gaxeés t!esaxa 
k!wet!afye. Wa, gilfmésé ge ax k!ts‘alitpxs laé Lepdzamolilema 
léewatyé laxa t!esitaxa k!wet!atye. Wa, léda ts!mdaqé lents!és laxa 
Lipma‘isasés gOkwe qa‘s xex"*widéxa t!ésemé qa‘s li xEx‘iisdésE- 
laq. Wa, li xmgwitelaq laxés g-okwé qa‘s li xbx"*walitas laxés 
k!waélasé. Wi, li ts!4sa maémaltsemé t!ésem laxés k!wétélag-ilaxa 
k!wetlatye. Wa, li gtigmdzotsa k!wetlafyé lax L!aspx-dzama‘yasés 
Lélanemé. Wii, héx-‘ida‘mésa k!wéetk!wattaxa k!wét lafyé mpEXwa- 
litasa ‘nemsgemé t!ésema qaxs héSmaé t!esdEmalxa k!wét!afye. 
Wii, li dix‘itsés gumxolts!ana‘ye lixa k!wét !atyé qa‘s ixsemdés laxa 
t!nsdema t!ésema. Wi, li daxitsés hélk-!ots!anafye laxa tliyowé 
t!ésemxs laé t!ms‘its laxa k!wet!atyé. Wii, hé*mis la trp !édamasxa 
xdlaésasa k!wét!afyé. Wa, li himxidex himts!4was. Wis, 4x‘si- 
smésé hé gwégilaxs k!wetk!wataaxa k!wet!lat‘yé. Wa, g-ilfmeéseé 
gwatexs laé fem la negeltewexen g-alé waldemxg‘in li gwagwéx'- 
sala laqéxs laé gwalt k!wétk!wata Lé‘lanemasa k!wetélixa k!wé- 
tlatyé. Wa, lanm gwat laxéq. 
Cryptochiton.—Wii,' g'il'mésé x-ats!aéséxs laéda genemas ixédxés 
lalaxamé Lrfwis q!enyayaxa qlanasé. Wii, li lents!myala laxa 
Lipmayaa. Wai, li héx‘idanm dodrgtipaxa ‘mrx*mek!wa t!ésema. 
Wi, gil'mésé doxtwarrlaxa q!anasé laé Llenqrlotsés q!enyayowe 
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