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because they heard two shots. | It was late in the evening when the 
shots sounded. | It was dark, but Q!égéd did not come back. || Then 
his tribe thought that he had been hurt. In the | morning when day 
came, he was expected in vain to come back, | and later in the day 
Q!égéd was given up. | Then the young men of the numaym Ts !6ts !E- 
na made themselves ready | to go and look for Q!égéd, who had 
been expected (to return). They started || and they had not gone 
far when they saw his tracks. | They followed them, and after going 
a long way, they found the stock of his gun. | They searched, and 
they found one of his legs. | In vain they kept on searching for 
other parts | of his body, but they found nothing else besides the 
one || leg and the stock of the gun and the barrel. | Then those who 
had looked for Q!egéd went home. They | carried with them the 
one leg and the part of the gun. | When they arrived at Qlégéd’s 
house and | told his wife the news, she told them to bury the || one 
leg of her husband. The reason why they talked about Ts !etwaét 
was that she | almost died crying for her husband, | because it was 
on account of her that he had gone out. Now | one leg of her hus- 
band had been buried in the fall of the year. | It was towards winter 
when Q!égéd had been killed || by the grizzly bear. Now it was 
gata, Wi, larm‘laé k!wigila dzaqwaxs laé hini!ala. Wa, 1a 
‘laé p!ledex ‘ida. Héwiaxas‘lat!a gax natnakwe Qlégéedé. Wa, 
ewalblarmlawisé gOktlotas kotaq lanrm yelkwa. Wa, la‘laé 2 
‘naxidxa gaala wiltem‘lawisé nak: !alase‘wa qa‘s g’axé ni‘nakwa. 
Wii, hé‘lat!a la giila ‘nalaxs laé nanox%q!lalayrwé Q!égede. Wii, 
lanm‘lawise xwanalidéda hia‘yaliisa ‘ne‘mémotasa Ts!dts!ena 
qass lalag’@ nenanuxtilax Qlégédé. Wa, laxda‘x"laé qas‘ida. Wa, 
ewilaxdzé‘laé qwésgila qisaxs laé dox*waLelax qaiqEesmotas. Wai, 
latlaé qastédeq. Wai, la‘laé qwésgilamm qasaxs laé q!axa hintemas 
yix oxLaixdis. Wa, la‘laé aléx-‘ida. Wa, lamm‘laé q!axa Apso- 
tsidzatyas gogityaés. Wii, wax‘rm‘lawise hainal alix ogt‘lé gayol 
Jax 6k!wina‘yas, wii, la‘laé k:!eis ogii‘la q!asds laxa apsdtsidzatyé 
gogttyO LEfwa OxLafyasa hantem, wii, hé‘mésa dzex‘s‘analas. 
Wa, gax‘laé ni‘nakwa nenanuxtlix Qlégédpx'dé. Wi, g'axtem- 
‘laé dag ilqalaxa Apsotsidzatyé g‘dgityd Lefwa gayolé lixa hin- 
Lemé. Wi, gil’em‘lawisé lag'aa laxa gox"dis Q!égedé laé ts!E- 
k lalidex genemx‘diis. Wa, larm‘lawisé ‘nék qa wtinemtasE‘wésa 
iipsdtsidzafyé g-Ogiiyosés lafwiinemx'dé, yix lagtilas gwagwéx's‘a- 
lasa yixs halstla‘maé k-!és q!wayalisemé Ts!étwaélé qaés lafwit- 
nemx'dé, yixs his‘maaq naqatyé laénafyas qis‘ida. Wa, lamm- 
‘laé gwala wtinemtiixa ‘nemé gogttyos lafwtinemx'déxa layenxé. 
Wa, larm‘laé gwebé laxa ts!iwtnxé, yix laix'demas k‘!élax’- 
‘itse'we Q!égédex'diisa gila. Wa, lamm‘lawisé ét!éd liyenxa la 
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