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not leave us! Make your parents happy! | for they will always give 
away property, so that you may always obtain | new names, O 
Ek! éqelag ila! friend Salmon! || you, Supernatural-One! Do not come 
to bring us misfortune! Come to do good! You bring | wealth, you, 
Abalone-Maker! You have come from the sea to us with your | 
brother, Supernatural-Salmon, friend.’ | 
As soon as the prayer is ended, she puts on the bedding | of yellow 
cedar-bark and of red cedar bark and that of wool; and || after this 
has been done, she puts on the cedar-bark forehead-presser, and the 
pillow; | and when this has been done, she puts down the cradle with 
notched head-board. She | puts the first one, with the child belonging 
to the Salmon, on the | right-hand side of the bed of the mother (of 
the new-born twins); and she puts the | other cradle with the 
notched head-board, and the || child belonging to the Salmon in it, 
on the left-hand side of the mother; | and after the mother of twins 
has done this, she puts in order the sleeping-place | of the twin- 
children and of their mother. | 
She takes cedar-poles, not thick, and | one fathom long, sharpens || 
the points, and drives them into the floor, one of them backwards | 
from the place where the heads of the mother of twins | and of her 
husband are; and the other one she drives into the floor at the | 
place where their feet are; and she drives one into the floor | outward 
from the place where their heads are, and the other one outward from 
k' !éséLos awéq!walaLol; wii, hé*mis qa‘s hémenalamads ék: !éqela- 
masxox g’igadlndkweéx qa hémenalaf‘mésox ‘watwalasdemx’sila qa 
alég'ésés LeLEgEmOs yULaxs ék léqelagilaéx, qast mryoxwa‘na, 
yun ‘nawalak" ‘yak'andmasos laixés g'ax‘énatyos yixs ék'andmaaq6s 
yixs q!omx‘salisaaqos yuL 6x‘ts!emg‘ila, yLaxs gaxsalisaéx Logwa 
‘neEmweyotek’ ‘nawalak® meEyOxwa‘na, qist.” 
Wai, gilfmésé q!tlbé ts!elwaq !énafyas laé mamélalas ‘waxax*‘idala- 
asasa déxwé LEfwa k'adzekwé Lefwa plalemé. Wai, gilfmésé gwa- 
texs laé Axsavelotsa déx" tlak'emés LeEfwis hélewabia‘yé. Wa, 
gilemésé gwila laé k-agililaxa qexeg'Eyowé xaap!a, yixa gale 
qirits!odaatsésa Llat!nyadzatye ginanema qa‘s li kagvalilas lax 
héetk: !odenoLemalilas ktlée‘lasas abempas. Wa, lai kagvililaxa 
‘MEMeXLa (EXEg Eyowé xaip!a, yixa ale q!elts!odaatsésa L!aL!eya- 
dzatyé ginanema qa‘s li kag’alilas lax gemxano_emalilas ibempas. 
Wii, gilfmése gwala yikwilayag‘ole ts!edaqa laé éax*édex kilé‘la- 
sasa L!aL!EL!eyadzatyé ging inineEm LEfweés ibempe. 
Wii, lafmés 4x*édxa mots!aqé dzp‘seqwaxa k*!és@é LesLeEkwa. Wii, 
li ‘nalfnemp!enk laxens baxiiq@ iwisgemasas. Wa, la dzodzox'- 
bendrq wilétatyas. Wa, la déx‘walilasa ‘nemts!agé laxa aLodeta- 
litasa ktléflasasa yikwilé ts!edaqa Letwis L!aL!eL!myadzafyé sa- 
skma LEfwis latwtinemé. Wai, li ét!ed déx‘watlitasa ‘nemts!aqé lax 
