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takes with her tongs another red-hot | stone. She speaks, and says: 22 
“Now I | pray to you, Supernatural-One, to protect our darling, 
that | no trouble may befall him as he is growing || up.’ | 25 
When her speech is at an end, she puts the stone where she put the | 
former ones, and she takes with her tongs the (last) | red-hot stone, 
speaks, and says: ‘‘ Now, I | pray to you, Supernatural-One, to give 
to our darling that he may grow up without BONG: | and that he 30 
may never be weakly.” | 
As soon as her speech is at an end, she puts the stone into the water 
in the | dish basin in which she is going to wash the child. She 
feels of the water to ascertain | whether it is warm; and when its 
temperature is right, | she takes out the four stones and puts them 
down. || Then she puts her left foot into the water in the basin, | 35 
and lets the child sit on the instep of her foot. | She takes well- 
rubbed yellow cedar-bark and | puts it into the water, and washes 
the child with it, so that all the “tallow” of the body may come off | 
and the blood. When this has been done, she wipes the body with 
soft yellow || cedar-bark. | 40 
Forming the Head of the Child.—When the body of the child is 
dry, | she takes a kelp bottle containing oil of silver-perch, | opens 
the end, and pours some oil into her right hand. She | rubs it 
tlésema. W4A, lixaé yaq!nevatta. Wi, laxaé ‘neéka: “Wa, latfmen 22 
haiwaxelor nawalak® qa‘s dadama‘yéLosaxg:anusx" wawalkinék qa 
k-leaséltsek’ Odzemalats laxa q!waxtnaktilaénéLaxg:anufx" wawal- 
kinék:.”’ 25 
Wii, gil:mésé q!iilbé waldemas laé k'!ipstents laxa laasasa g:ag‘i- 
liryé x'ix'ixsemala t!ésema. Wai, la ét!ed klip!tidxa ‘neEmsgEmé 
xixsemila t!ésema. Wa, la yaq!mg'atta. Wa, la ‘nék'a: “Wai, 
lafmen hiwaxelon nawalak" qa‘s l’sadsasés hélolésrlaénatyés k:!és 
q!ults!énoxwa laxg'anu'x" wawalk-inék:.” 30 
Wai, gilemésé q!ilbé waldemas laé k-!ipstents laxa q!ots!alilaxa 
kwidzats!énaséxa ginainemé. Was, li p!a‘staxa ‘waipé qa‘s p!éx‘wi- 
dex ts!rlxstaémafyas. Wi, gilfmésé helalée la ts!elxstaénatyas laé 
ixwtstalaxa mosgEmé ts!éts!nq!tiltsem t!ésema qa‘s Ax‘alités. Wi, 
li dzéx"stasés gemxdltsidza‘yé lax ‘wabrts!4wasa kwidzats!éLaxa 3: 
ginanemé. Wa, li k!wigvaltsidzentsa ginanemé laxés Awig-al- 
tsidzatyé. Wai, la 4xédxa aék' !aakwé q!oyaak" déxwa qa‘s ixstEn- 
dés laxa ‘wapé qa‘s kwis‘idéxa ginfinemé qa ‘witlawés yaspx‘it- 
na‘yas LE‘wa Elkwa. WéA, gil*mésé gwala laé dégit!itsa q!oyaakwé 
dex" laq. 40 
Forming the Head of the Child.— WA, gil‘mésé lemx‘tin‘idéda g’ina- 
nemaxs laé ix*édxa ‘waSwadé pents!pfwatsa dzek!wisé. Wa, li 
qwélexstendnq qga‘s x'ixts!anendés laxés hétk:!olts!anatyé. Wa, la 
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