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protect | us, so that nothing may happen to us, friend! and | wish 
that we may come back to live in you happily, | O house! when we 
come next year to dig cinquefoil. Good-bye!’ | Thus he says, sits 
down in the stern of his travelling-canoe, and paddles; || and he must 
not turn his face to look at his house again. | He only turns his face 
back after | passing the point (that hides the house). 
PRAYER TO YouNG CEDAR 
(The woman! who has found a young cedar) takes her adz and 
stands under the | young cedar-tree, and, looking upward to it, she 
prays, saying: || ‘‘ Look at me, friend! I come to ask for your dress, | 
for you have come to take pity on us; for there is nothing for which 
you | can not be used, because it is your way that there is nothing for 
which we | can not use you, for you are really willing to give us your 
dress. I | come to beg you for this, long-life maker, for I am going 
to make a basket for lily roots out of you. || I pray you, friend, not to 
feel angry with me on account of what I | am goimg to do to you; 
and I beg you, friend, to tell our | friends about what I ask of you. j 
Take care, friend! Keep sickness away from me, so that I may not 
be killed by | sickness or m war, O friend!”’ || 
This is the prayer that is used by those who peel cedar-bark of 
young cedar-trees and | old cedar-trees. | 
gaxEnusx" qEenusx" k:lefisé ‘yiigasa, qistéi. Wa, hé*mis qa‘s salé- 
laqEliLoOs g’axEnuex" qmenufx" @ axel é@tlalin gokimtslag-alin lon 
ew okwa lax et!édia ts!ots!eyEnxLEx qwésEyEnxLa. Wa, halak-as- 
Lela; ‘nékexs laé k!waxiendxés ya‘yats!é xwak!tina qa‘s séx*widé. 
Wa, la‘mé k-!és helq!ala mels‘ida qa‘s dox‘widé ét!édxés g-dkwé. 
Wa, aldzila‘mésé merlmelsi‘lilaxs laé t!etlig’o LeSwis g-Okwaxs laé 
hatyaqa laxa awilba‘ye. 
Prayer To YOuNG CEDAR 
Wa, la! ax‘edéda ts!mdaqaxés k'limitayowé qa‘s li LAaxLElsaxa 
dzE‘sEqwaxs laé ék'!egemelsexs laé ts!elwaqaq. Wé4, la ‘nék-a: 
“Wega, doqwila gaxen qastiixg'in g-axé gets! laxs k‘Omaqés 
qaxs hé‘maaqos g'axelé qa‘s waxads g*axEnu‘x", yixs k'!eAsaaqos 
k!és ég'asaxés g’axélads brex‘walésa, yixg'anu®x" k-edisék’ k:lés 
hétemx*‘idaasds qads Aliiqds aéx‘stots!ayowos k‘Omaqos. Héden 
gaxel géts!a lon gilgildokwilaxgin x‘dgwats!égililg-oL. Wi, la- 
‘mésEn aésayoLol qasti qa‘s k !éséLos odzemg'aaLelatsg’in gwiila- 
gildzastex’ lan. Wii, lamésen hiwaxelon qasti qa‘s néladsaxEns 
mnénemokwaxg'in hanal'méLeEx: géts!ol laqo. Wi, qisti, wégra 
yaL!aLex; demLes dadzmewil g'axen qen k'!eisé gagdLemialasa lixa 
ts!éts!axq!dlemé Lefwa dzédzax‘ila. Wa, qastii!’” 
Wa, hérm ts!elwagayosa senqiixa denasé laxa dzE‘seqwé LO‘ma 
welkwe. 
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