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it on top of the || upper burial-box; and then the other climber goes 
up,| and helps his friend tie the | burial-box to the twin burial-tree with 
the rope which they have used for hoisting the burial-boxes. | When 
this has been done, both come down; | and as soon as they reach the 
ground, the eight || Salmon people rise and they go home together with 5! 
the two] climbers, for the parents of the dead twins do not go along. | 
Three days after the children of the parents of .the twins were 
born, | in the evening, all the men || of the tribe of the parents of the 
twins sit down outside of their houses; | and when they are all there, 
a man who is | told by the tribe to speak, addresses them, for this 
man is not | one of the chiefs; but the chiefs have asked him | to 
speak, for the chiefs are afraid of the parents of twins, || because 
nobody ever succeeds in anything if the parents of twins wish ill to 
him. | Therefore the chiefs do not show that what is said is | the 
speech which they wish to be made. The man says, | ‘“‘O tribe! I 
invited you to come here and be seated, that I may ask the parents of 
twins | whether they intend to keep the taboos. Now I will go and 
ask them.” || Thus he says, and walks into the house in which the 
twins were born; | and when he goes in, the woman, the mother of the 
twins, says at once | that she has heard what was said by the people 
ék !érela degats!a. Wa, gilfmésé gwala laé ék lestéda ‘nemokwe 
hicweénoxwa qa‘s li g‘oxtwidxés ‘nemodkwaxs laé yilarlotsa 
dédrg‘ats!é laxa L!aL!eL!nyadzép!éqé Lasa, yisés deng'ustalayox"deé 
denema. Wa, g*ilfmésé gwala gaxaé ‘witla hoqwaxaxs ma‘lokwae. 
Wi, gilfmésé g-axelsa laé ‘witla q!wagilséda malgtina‘lokwé L!an'r- 
Lipyadzafya qa‘s lax'da‘x® ‘nemax"‘id ni‘nak® LEf‘wa ma‘lokwé 
héhr:wénox" bébEgwanrma qaxs k:!@éasaé las g'ig'adIndkwasa la létn‘l 
LlaL!eL!pyadza‘ya. 
Wa, gilfmésé yidux"p!enxwa‘s gwasés miayoldemasa yikwilé 
hiyasek-dla; wii, g'ilfmésé dziqwaxs laé k!tiselséda ‘naxwa bébr- 
gwanEms g’Okiilotasa yikwilé hayasek’dla lax L!asana‘yas g'okwas. ; 
Wa, giltmésé ‘wilg'azlspxs laé yaq!ng'atléda begwanrmé yixa 
ixk lalaskéwases gOktloté qa yaq!ent!ala, yixs k'lésaé graydl 
brgwanrmé lixa gig'egimatyé. Wi, lara héma g'ig'egima‘yé 
ixk' lala qa yaq!ent!alés qaxs kilemaéda yikwilasa gig'‘ngimatyé 
qa‘s k-!ésaé weyoL!énoxwa yikwilaxs hinkwaaxés gwe‘ya qa Ie‘lés. 
Wai, hémis lagilas k-!és néltsemala hé yaq!rg'attéda g‘ig'mgima- 
eyasés waldpméxsdé. Wai, li ‘nekéda begwaneme: “Héden ligvita 
‘nex’ qens gaxé kliis‘elsa, goktilot, qen wiLéxwa yikwilax hiya- 
sEk‘fla aék‘ilazmrilad Lof k!és. Wa, latmésen lal wialqo,”’ 
enék'exs laé qis‘ida qa‘s lé laér laxa yikwilats!@ gokwa. Wi, 
gilfmésé laétexs laé héx'‘ida‘méda yikwilé ts!edaq hé gil yaq!n- 
gacta qaxs wuLEla‘maax waldrmasa begwanemé 1ax L!asand‘yasés 
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