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After that the little bo}" begun to go into the water. He crawled up, 

 when he was almost killed by it. 



Once he started off with his bow and arrows. When he was walking 

 along the beach [he saw] a hin-tayl'ci" swimming in a little pond of 

 sea water. He took it up. It cut his hands with its sharp sides. 

 He reared it in the little pond. As he was going along with his bow 

 and arrows he would feed it. 



One time he said to his mother, "I am going after firewood." "But 

 . your uncles never came down," [she said]. In the morning he jumped 

 quickly out on the floor. He took a stone ax and ran up in one of the 

 roads. In it there was a finger sticking up, which said to him, "This 

 way with your finger. " He took hold of it and pulled up the being which 

 was there. He threw it down on a stone. In the place from which 

 he took it bones were left where it had been killing. Then he cut off 

 its head with his stone ax. He took it dow^n to his mother. He threw 

 it into the house to her and to his grandmother, and they cut the face 



koqagu't." DesgwA'tc hinx ye K-xi'xtc yuAtk!A'tskI°. Tclaye' 



I am Koinj;." Now into the water thus always ran the httle boy. Just 



daq gacl'tc ac gadJA'qen. 



up whcii he crawled him wheu it almost killed. 



Wananl'sawe tcu'net tin wugu't. Eq dugude'awe ilk!" 



At once bow and arrows with ho went. The beach when walking on a little 



lake 



kAt wuqia'gi hlntayi'ci. Ax awaca't. Yadudji'nawe Le wu'ctAx 



on was swimming [a fish]. From it he took it up. His hands then to pieces 



5 uwaklu'ts awA'nite. Ak!" kA'cjIawe ya'AnAswAt. Aqle'x 



it cut from the sharp The little within he was raising it. There 



sides of it. pond 



Atti'qinutc tcune't aga'laAt ganu'k". 



he would feed it his bow and arrows when he was going with. 



Wananl'sawe ye aya'osiqa duLfi', "Ga'nga naade'." "Yika'k-hAs 



At once thus he said to his mother, "After lire- lam " Your uncles 



wood going." 



Lei yi ga'uguttc." Tsluta'tawe tIakA't wudjixi'x. Tayi's a'wacat. 



not ever came down." In the morning on the floor he jumped quickly. Stone ax he took. 



TcIuLe' ya Leq! yati'yiya yik fi'we daq anaci'k. Ya'de 



Then in [road] one he was inside of that up he was running. This 



10 yik nAxawe'n lieu' qaLle'q. ''Hande' iLle'q," yu'aciaosiqa. 



inside of from wasstickingup a finger. "This way your finger," whatitsaid to him. 



Le anA'x Llakoli'tsage'awe ax ke a'waxot!. TAkA'tawe aca'olixot!. 



Then of it when he took hold from it up he pulled him. On a stone he threw him. 



yu'-ilx-ke-awaxo'tIe3^a awe' qaxagi' ye wudziga't ade' qoi'n- 



The place he pulled him out from that bones thus came to be left where he had 



ija.. TcIuLe' qaxAse' waslu' yu's!u tayl'stc. Yi'qde awate' 



been kill- Then his neck he cut oil [with] his stone ax. Down he took it 



ing. 



duLfi'x. AuA'xawe nel a'wagiq! qA dull'lk!. Le hAs a3"ada'kah:in. 



tohismother. From it into the he threw it and to liis grand- Then they were cutting its 



house mother. face all up. 



a See p. 217. 



