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and some red ochre, and take || also four split pine-sticks three | of 
our fathoms in length; then sharpen the ends, and take the fern | and 
put it upside down; then push the ends of the sharpened | pine- 
sticks among the leafy stems; | then, while it is still upside down, 
take five dentalia, and || put two dentalia on the right-hand side of 
the fern-root, | and take two more dentalia and put them | on the left 
side of the fern-root, and then take | one dentalium shell and put it 
on its nose; | and tie them all on; and as soon as you finish, take || 
red paint and cover the root of the fern, | and place it by the side 
of the fire of your house or on the | south side of your fire. Then 
speak, and | say: 
‘Don’t put me too near the fire, else there will be too much in 
your world! | Northwest Wind, East Wind!’ 
“Thus you shall say.” Thus said || old Kwa’gwa‘no. ‘As soon 
as the fern gets-warm, | the northwest wind will at once begin.”’ | 
Then I questioned him, and said to him, ‘‘Let me ask you | who 
invented it?’ I said to him. | 
Immediately he began to laugh, and said: ‘It is not that || this has 
been recently invented, what I told you. Listen! and I will | tell _ 
you the story about the one who first invented what I told you. | 
ma‘itsemg-usti aLn’la LESwa gwegt’/myime. Wai, las e’t!ed ax‘é’d- 
xa mo’ts!aqé@ xok" xex"mesa’, ya'dux"plenk’@ ‘wa’sgemasas 
la’xens ba’tax. Wii, las k-!a’k !ox"br/ndEqweé, las ixé’dxa si‘laé- 
dina. Wa, la é’k !axsda’laxs la’aq6s k: !a’q !tiqaséda 0’ba‘yasa k: !ax"- 
baa’kweé xeEx"meEs lax &’waga‘yas ma’mii‘map!éqas. Wi, lan’m 
éklaxsdina. Wa, la’Lms ix‘é/dxa sek: !a’ts!aqé inn’la, qa‘s ix‘a’- 
Lelodaydsasa ma‘its!a’qé ave’la lax hé’ik-!otema‘yasa sa’laédana. 
Wa, las @’t!éd &x‘@’dxa ma‘its!a’qé Aie’la qa‘s 4x‘a’LElddadsa 
lax gem‘xa’/nulema‘yasa sa’laédina. Wii, las é’t!léd axé’dxa 
‘ne/mts!aqé Aie’la qa’s &x‘a’Lelddadsas lax x‘i’ndzasas. Wii, 
‘naxwa'ma yil’a’LeElodms. Wi, gi’l'méts gwala, wi, las ix‘e’dxa 
gwergti’myimé qa‘s qopsk’mdés ‘na’xwa lax L!d’p!ek‘asa si‘laé- 
dana. Wii, las La/ndlisas lax Imgwi'lasés g*d’kwos; ‘wi'la la’xa 
‘na/laqenwa‘lisasés legwi’lés. Wi, las ya’qleg-a‘ta. Wi, las 
‘né/k-a: ‘Gwa’lax‘in La’tsalaé’, a’LOx xe’nit!eqa 1a’x6s ‘na’liqosée’, 
Dza’q!walanukwai’, Xa‘yolisiixtfiyai’;’ ‘né’x'Les,”’ ‘né’k-éda q!ii’/l- 
‘yakwe Kwa’gwatno. ‘“ Wi, g'i/lSmmiwisé ts!p/lx‘widéda sa’laédana, 
lé’Las hé’x*fidanm dza’q!tx‘idpia ya'la.”’ 
Wi, len wiita’q, wi, len ‘nék'nq: ‘ Wii’entsdsen wttd’L. Wii, 
ngwasox k!wé’xafya?” ‘né’k-pniaq. 
Wa, héx-‘idafmés da’iéda. Wa, la ‘né’k-a: ‘ K°!é’saaxs al§p’m 
k!we’xafya yixen lax wa‘tdem lov. Wii, we’g il la ho’Léla qen 
no’s‘idag’i qa‘s, yis g'a’/lola k!wenux"sen wa‘tdemaqoL. 
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