124 MYTHOLOGIO TEXTS. 



120, 2. tcbislikiiiipslit iastead of tchisblaiapkasht. 



120, 10. vutatcbkia is also prouounced ntatchkia, liutatclikia. Eartli-lod^i's which 

 open ou the top cau be (•los(!d by means of a large cover placed over the snioke-liole. 



120, 11. lepleput(5a or properly : Icplep^puttni, "to play the smoke out f;anie Mith 

 two on each side,'" is a coinijound of lapCni tiro in the siiorter form lap, and pi'ita (o be 

 smothering-. Lap has elianged its vowel into a shorter \owel, c, on account of remo\al 

 of accent, and is hero redoubled by iterative, not by distributive reduplication. Cf. 

 lcp;fleks from lap and k'16ka. A series of points after lepleputea indicates that the 

 animals repeated this word an indefinite number of times, wliile the others were inside 

 the lodge, and while pronouncing puta', they opened again to let them out. 



120, 17. tchu;fasht tche'k kaishnii'la. Literally rendered, this means: liaving 

 perished finally, they uucovered. The subject of tchi'ip^asht, lu'1/agsh, has to be su])- 

 plied from what precedes. The smoke of the burning rotten wood killed the cubs. 



120, 10. ga-uhVlkish, from gu-ulola to go out, is the cmtside ladder of the In- 

 dian "mud-house" or winter-lodge, averaging in length from 10 to 15 feet; the inside 

 ladder, wdkish, is somewhat longer to reach the excavated floor. 



120, 21. The complete wording of this sentence, in which shaptki stands for 

 siiajjatki, would be: k;l i shaptki giug Li'ikasb, gatpampelisht hiVnksh (hiVnkiash). 



120, 22. slggaipksh, contraction of aggayapkash : aggi'iya to be hung up, or to be 

 stuck into : said of long-shaped articles only. 



121, 3. auulipka to take away something from another's lodge or house without 

 asking for it; the sufHx -ipka expressing the idea of "towards oneself." Auulipkuish, 

 "what was once abstracted from others" appears here in tlie contracted form anuli'])- 

 kutch; g(5-u "by me, through me." 



121, 9. tatatataksni shows repetition of the two first syllables of tat^ksni children, 

 but at the same time means "where are the children?" 



121, 15. shalgidsha; the antelopes placed the coals there to secure their flight from 

 the Eear ; had the coals been put there by somebody else, hlkidsha would be used. 



121, 2li. 122, 7. hu'ktakag: familiar diminutive name given to the Grizzly Bear; 

 hu'ktag, 121, 2'3., stands for one of the young antelopes. 



122, 1. 2. Mbiishant tche'k etc. The sense of this exclamatory sentence is as follows : 

 "To-morrow at last I will pla-y a sharp game with ye children, when in the day-time 

 I can use my eyes to advantage." Lulpatka is: lulpatko a; "i>osscssing eyes" is the 

 primary signification of lulpatko, but here it means " enabled to make use of the eyes". 

 Cf. raukasham nil lulpatko: I see as sharp as a horned owl. The distributive form 

 pshd'psha, of pshd, "during day-time" means "any time when the sun shines bright." 

 Cf. psh(5ksh, noontime. 



122, 9. This blowing of personified objects of nature into sticks etc., is a fiction of 

 which we have another instance in 111, IG. 



122, 11. iidshenshkAui. Sec Wote to 71, 6. 7. 



122, 12. 13. tchiw;^, tchi'tchu: tchi is a syllable found in many words referring to 

 water and liquids, as tchiya to give water; tchi6ga to overflow. This radical is no 

 doubt an obsolete Klamath word for water and recalls the term tchiVk "water" in 

 Chinook jargon: tltsuk in Lower Chinook, tl'tchuku in Clatsop; tchaiik in ]S'utka. 

 It also occurs under various forms in the Sahaptin dialects. By this lake undoubtedly 

 Upper Kiamath Lake is meant. Cf. tchiwa in Dictionary. 



