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and when | they are dry, the man says, “O friends! || take care! I 
pray you, Owner-of-the-Weather, | to make your weather right, 
Owner-of-the-Weather! O | Supernatural-One! make your weather 
right and call | Northwest-Wind and East-Wind and Clear-Weather- 
Above.’’—“ Yes,” | says the man who himself gives answer. || He : 
pretends that the star-fish says this. Then the man says, | ‘Don’t 
let me be too near the fire! Don’t let me be too near the fire, else 
your | weather will be too good. Don’t let me be too near the fire, 
else your weather will be good forever.’ | Thus he says. | 
As soon as he stops speaking, he breaks off the cedar-strings || 
which hold the four star-fish, and he carries them into the woods 
and | hides them under the stump of a tree. Then he leaves them. | 
Some people say that he takes them back to the beach, | to the 
place where he took them from. | 
This is also one way of calling the wind, and it is | a way of making 
it calm, for all the winds, wherever they come from— | the north- 
west wind, and the northeast wind, and the south wind, and the 
southeast wind— | even when they are strong. || 
Whenever we go far away and a mother of twins sits in the canoe, | : 
or even if itis a man (a father of twins), | as soon as there is no wind— 
ln’mlpemx"semx“‘idexs la’éda begwa’nemé ‘né/k'a: ‘‘ Wa, ‘nénE- 
mokwii’! Wé’g'a ya’L!atex; la‘men hiwa’xelaLoy ‘né‘na’/lanukwii’ 
qa wé’g'ads wax hé’h‘liilaxs ‘na’liqods, ‘né‘na’lanukwa’; yun, naé‘na- 
wilakwii’. Wé’g il la hé’h‘lilatexs ‘na’liiqds qa‘s Lé’‘laladsax Dza’- 
q!walanukwaii’, Xa’yolisaxtaéyaé’, Q!oxtilisaxt&yai’.’’—“ WA,” ‘né’- 
kexs la’é q!tlé’x's'em na’nax‘ma‘éda begwa’neme. Wa, lan’m 
hé’bota ya’q!ent !aléda ga’dzmqé. Wa, la’xaé ‘né’k-éda begwa’nEemé: 
“Gwa’lax‘in La’tsalai’. Gwa’lax‘in La’tsalai’, 4/LOx hi’k-Ends ‘na/- 
liqds. Gwa’lax'in La’tsalai’, a’LOx xn/nit!nqnlésds ‘na’liqés,”’ 
'né’x‘‘laé. 
Wi, gi’lfmésé q!we’lidpexs la’é &Le’maxddxa deEna’sé, yix te- 
gwe’lemasa mo’we ga’dzmqa qa‘s lé a’Lé‘stas la’xa a’Llé qa‘s lé 
qitila’Labdlsas lax Swa’ga‘yasa ts!ekumé’Lé. Wa, g°a’xtem bas. 
Wii, la ‘né’k-@da wad/kwaqéxs ln‘ma’é aé/daaqas li’xa L!ema‘- 
isé la’xés ga’ yanrmasaq. 
Wi, gan’mxaég'a’da ‘nn/’mx“idalak’ Lé’‘lalaya 1a’xa ya’la LOxs 
gwe’x*‘idaasnukwaé q!6’x‘widaé’masxa ‘na’xwa qa‘s g‘a’yolasa 
ya/lixa dza’q!wa LE‘wa xA’yoLé LE‘wa yii’xdila LE‘wa mela’sé, 
yixs wa’x*maé La’k!wémasa. 
Wi, hé’*maéxg‘anu‘x” 1é’Lek: 1a’xa qwé’sala, yixs k!wa’xsalaéda 
yikwi'‘layag’uL, yixa ts!eda’qé; wi, wa’x*mésé hé’t!eda brgwa’- 
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