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93 it down on the floor of the house; and she takes one bucket | and 
pours the water into the hole on the top of the baking-place, where 
the | root-digger had been standing; and as soon as it is emptied, 
95 she takes the || other bucket and empties it also into the hole on top; | 
and when it is emptied, she covers up the hole on top with soil. | It is 
evening when she finishes; and as soon as it gets dark, | she takes her 
tongs and lifts the fire from the middle of the house with her tongs, | 
100 and puts the firebrands on top of the baking fern-roots; || and when 
it blazes up, she puts some wet fire-wood on top, | so that it may last 
until the morning. | 
When she has finished, she asks the people who live in the same 
house to abstain | from sexual intercourse during the night. In the 
morning, when day comes, | the woman gets up, and she goes to look 
2 at what is being baked by her. || As soon as the fire on top is all 
burned out, she digs | 1t up; and when it is not burned out, she 
extinguishes | the fire on top of it, and she waits for the soil to get 
cool before | she digs into it. As soon as she reaches, in digging, 
the | mat that has been spread on top, she takes it by the corners 
10 and she lifts it up with everything on it, and || takes it out. Then 
she takes her tongs and takes out | the seaweed and the hemlock and 
the wet leaves. As soon as | the fern-roots show, she takes her large 
basket and | puts it down by the side of the baking-place. Then she 
93 qa‘s qrpts!odésa ‘wapé laxa kwaxttyatyasa kiinyasé yix Lala- 
asdisa k‘lilakwe. Wa, gilfmésé ‘wilgilts!axs laé et!éd &x‘édxa 
95 ‘nemsgEmeé nagats!é qa‘s lixa qepts!ots laxaaxa kwaxtiya‘tye. Wai, 
gilmese ‘wilgilts!axs laé dzemstotsa dzeqwa laxa kwaxtiya‘yé. 
Wa, lamm dzaqwaxs laé gwala. Wi, gilfmésé p!edngitnaktilaxs 
laé ixtédxés k‘liprala qa‘s k:liplidés laxa laqawalité qa‘s li k !i- 
pryendalasa gtlta lax Osgpmafyasés ktmsaspSwéda tsak-usé. Wa. 
100 gil'mésé x ik-ustaxs laé ixvalasa k!tingé leqwa laq qa ‘nag‘ilisLes 
x iqelat. 
Wa, gilfmésé gwalpxs laé hiwaxelaxés ‘nemaélwtite qa k !ea- 
sés npxwalas LE‘wés gegenEMaxa ganoLée. Wa, gilfmésé ‘nax“‘idxa 
gaalixs laé Laxtwidéda ts!edaqé qa‘s li doxtwidxés ktinsasE‘we. 
5 Wi, gilfmésé ‘witla q!ilx‘idéda leqityatyaséxs laé héx‘‘ida‘em ‘la- 
pleqodeq. Wi, gil’mése k-!és q!tilx‘idexs laé héx‘idarm kI!il- 
x‘idxa lmqtiyatyas. Wii, la ésrlaemq qa k-ox‘widésa dzeqwiixs 
laé ‘lap!eqodnq. Wa, gilfmésé lag-aé ‘lapatyas laxa LepEya‘yé {e- 
‘wafya laé dem dadenxendng qa‘s ‘nemag‘ilts!odé wex-‘ideqeéxs lae 
10 ix*witlts!odmq. Wi, a*mésé la ix‘édxés klipLala qa‘s k:!ipwiilts !alés 
laxa L!est!ekwé Lefwa q!waxeé LE‘wa LEq!Emsé. Wii, gil‘mesé ‘witla 
la nérltspmx*‘idéda tsak-usaxs laé &x‘edxés ‘walasé lexa‘tya qa‘s 
li hinolilas laxés ktnyasé. Wa, li dadesgemasés e‘eyasowe laxa 
