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"The}' came to invite for the food that was g-one." It was entirely 

 empty, and great was the shame that the chief felt. Afterward he 

 questioned his children. Their dishes had hair on them. There was 

 a dish apiece, which always lay l)y them. Then their mother came in 

 to them. "Did you do thisf she said. When the}" kept on crying, 

 she raised the face of the older girl. She scratched her daughter's 

 cheek, and also that of the younger one. She scratched on l)oth of 

 their cheeks because they ate up the tallow for which [her husband] 

 had invited strangers. When the people went to bed that night the 

 girls made a hole under the boards. Then they put the hairy dishes 

 in their places. Afterward they went back into a hollow tree. 



Next morning [their mother] said, "I wonder where they have 

 gone." She said to them, " Get up now." Then the long dishes moved 

 [as she pulled at the covers]. It was the dishes they had put in their 

 places. They, however, had dug a hole underneath and were gone. 

 Then their mother came out from Ix'hind the screens. No one knew 



du'dziat." AdA'xayu Lei gwa'yu lii'kdaAt. A'Len kade'qiayu a'wetle 



they came to After that not it was anything there. Big one was a shame got 



invite." 



yuauqil'wo. AdA'x aqlewawu's! duye'tqli. HAsdus!l'q!e ayu' 



the chief. After that he questioned his children. Tlieir dishes it was 



yAX caodudzTxa'o. DJAsduyA'x dex yati'. Lilk" hA'sduxA'ni yen 



had hair on them. Dish apiece for the there was. Always by them there 



two 



ula'ttc. HAsduLa' hAsduxA'nAx daq uwagu't. "Ylha'ntc Agi', ye 



he always Their mother to them in came. "You ? so 



lay. 



yl'sini." Leye'diayu' hAS gA'xsati ayu' LeyA'tx aya'wacat cAtxe'a. 5 



you did." Kept on they cried when up she lifted the older girl. 



face of 



Dusf awActu' akA't Lak" ts!u ki'klia. Tc!u dA'xAuAx a'yu awActu' 



Her cheek on scratched also the younger Then both of them it was on whose 



daughter's one. cheek 



aka'waLak" yu'tu yAx Iias aya'owusixaye'tcayu ayi's daq ostA'ti 



she scratched the tallow like they because ate for it up he invited 



a'ayu. TcIulc' hAs wuxe'q! ta'dayu tc!uLe' tla'tayls aka'waha. 



it was. Chen they went to sleep in the night then under the they made 



board a hole. 



AdA'x qo'a tcIuLe' yu'caodudzixawu-s!i'q! citl'yen hAS a'oLiAt. 



And however, then the hairy dishes in theirplaces they put. 



then, 



TcIuLe' yuAtla'k as-tuwull' nei Iias uwaA't. 10 



Then back of them tree hollow into they went. 



AdA'xayu ye aya'osiqa, "Ade' hAs naade' ya-u'cki." Ye hAs 



And then so she said, "Where they have gone I wonder." As then 



follows 



daya'osiqa, "Ca-idaqe'de." Tc!u kuwa'tlayu nAcxe'ntc. Yu'sliq! 



she said to, "Get up now." Then th(! long dishes moved. The dishes 



Asiyu' ciyiti'yes A'ti u. Has qo t!ake' hAs Acuka'osiha. AdA'xayu 



it was in place of things put. They, how- hole they dug under. And then 



themselves ever, 



aua'x daq uwagu't hAsduLa'. Le gwaA'ldaAt Lei hAs ka'oste. 



from it out came their mother. Then they were gone. Not they knew where. 



