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Then he takes another one and throws it; and as | he throws the 
third one in the same way, he says while throwing it: | “‘O, life-giver! 
now you have seen which way your supernatural power went. || Now 
go the same way.” As he says so, he takes the | last one and throws 
it back of the foot of the tree that he is chopping, | and he says as 
he is throwing it: ‘“O, friend! now you will go | where your heart- 
wood goes. You will lie on your face at the same place.’ | After he 
has said so, he answers himself and says: ‘“ Yes, || I shall fall with my 
top there.’ After he has said so, he takes his ax and | chops again; 
and as soon as his chopping passes half | through the trunk of the 
tree, he goes to the opposite side and chops; and he does not chop | 
deep into it when the tree begins to crack; and it does not take long 
until | the cedar-tree falls backward. || 
Prayer or CINQUEFOIL-DIGGER! 
After? they have finished (loading their canoe), they go aboard the 
travelling-canoe. | The man stands up in the stern of the canoe, 
because he steers it, and, | looking at his digging-house, he prays to 
it and says, | praying and holding in his hand his steering-paddle 
while he is standing up, he says: || ‘Look upon my wife and me, and 
Wa, lai é’tléd da’x‘idxa ‘nema’xs la’é neplides. lLa’xaaxs 
neEba/sasésa la’Lé ya’dux*weda’la. Wii, la’é ‘nég-ntmwe’xs la’é np- 
pa’: “Wa, geile ildokwila laz’ms do’qtilaxlaa’sas dililixés *na’wila- 
k!wénafya; lar’m las lat lax laa’sas,” ‘nék'exs la’@ da’x-fidxa 
b/IxLafyé qa‘s nep!é’dés la’xaax a’LOt!mxa‘wa‘yasés sop !exotsEewe. 
Wi, li ‘nég-‘nthwé’xs la’é nepa’: “Wa, qasté’, laz’ms las lat 
lax laa’sasés dd’maxdos; lar’m las hmx‘ti’Isior lax laa’sas,” ‘nex: 
laé’xs la’é q!tlé’x‘sem na’naxmatya. Wai, li ‘ne’ka:” ‘Wai, 
hé’eEmLeEn gwexto’xwidie,”’ ‘nék'pxs la’é dix‘idxés sObayowé qa‘s 
sop!e’dé é@’t!éda. Wi, gi/lfmésé la’k:!od@lé sd’patyaséxs la’é 
la’k: !ot !px6da qa‘s sep!EdzE/ndéq. Wi, k-!és*mésé k !wii’brté so’ pa- 
fyaséxs la’é hélmelq!tig-a‘téda we’lkwe. K°!e’st!a ge’x-‘idexs la’é 
aLEtox‘wid t!a’x‘idéda wé’lkwe. 
PRAYER OF CINQUEFOIL-DIGGER ! 
Wai, gilfmésé gwalexs? laé hogtixs laxés yatyats!@ xwak!iina. Wii, 
lida begwanrme LaxLéexa xwak!itna qaxs hé‘maé venxtatya. Wii, 
doqwalaxés ts!ewédzats!@xé g'Okwa qa‘s ts!el'waqéq. Wa, li ‘né- 
krexs laé ts!elwaqaq .sek!igextsés LEnXx'Layayowé sé*wayowa. 
“Wega doqwatat g:axenu‘x" Logiin genemk: qa‘s daidamiyéLés 
1 See also Addenda, p. 1318. 
2 'This is done when husband and wife return from digging cinquefoil roots in their garden. Continued 
from p. 193, line 96. 
