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“ namuya ! nikustdw usdm ! ” klh-iidw ; “ pdyakwanuhk Mt-dpitj 
itah dpitsih, ” itik nandtuhk ohih kdkwah. 
kitahtawd piskwah kmwds kd-kituyit ; dh-kituyit, kd-t^pipayiyit. 
“ ydhon, pakdhkam aw dsiniy kustdw dwakunih, ” itdyihtam ; “ ni^m, 
dstam ! ” 
“ hdhj nistdsd, dydhj mdka minah wd-totawiyan ! ” 
“ namd wiya, nih%m ! kakwd-pihkuhin ; nitiskiskdk aw dsiniy. kik- 
dsi-miyusiyan kik-d^hitin, klspin pahkwatinatsi awa asiniy. ” 
“ hdha^ , dkdya mdka kiydski ; nitaka nndhtd-miyusin, nistdsd, ” itik 
piskwah. 
dkwah spdhkdpayihow awa piskwah ; dkutdw uhtsi pd-mdsklstawdw 
oh dsiniyah ; pwdkitsitdw. pdstsipayiw aw dsiniy. kdydpits nama klh- 
pihkuhdw awa wlsahkdtsdhk. 
“ nisim, dhkamdyimuh ! kakwd-pihkuhin ! kii-dsih-miyusiyin kik- 
dsihitin ; ka-wawdsihitin. ” 
u 
dha’ , nistdsd, miiunih ninohtd-miyusin ; usdm niwiylpisin, ” itik. 
dsay minah ispdhkdpayihuyiwa ; dsay minah pd-mdsklstawdw asiniyah ; 
mituni kisiwdk pwdkitsitdw dhl asiniyah. mitunih plkupayiyiwa ; nandnis 
apiyiwa. pihkuhdw awa unsahkdtsdhk. 
dkwah, “ dstam, ni^m ; mistahi kitatamihin ! ” 
dkwah wdpatuniskah, asiskiy dh-wdpiskdyik utinam wlsahkdtsdhk ; 
dkwah awah piskwah wd-wdpamisdw, pdh-pahkih dh-wdpiskisit. 
dkwah umis Itdyihtam : “tdpwd nimiyusin ! ” itdyihtam. 
“ dstam, ni^m. mahtih kihkwdkanihk min dkutah kik-d^hitin ; usdm 
kinwdw kiskiwan. dsta7n ! iyikuhk kit-dspihtsdw. 
“ dha^ , " itik. 
dkwah umisi tdtawdw ; asdna^katinamwdw. dkwah ^sikuts utihtindw, 
dm dtdniyiw umis dy-ispitamwdt. dkwah pakwdtam awa piskwah d-misdyik 
viun. 
dkuyikuhk kahkiyaw. 
Once upon a time Wisahketchahk set out. Presently he saw some 
young partridges in a nest. 
“My little brothers, partridges, what is your name?” 
“But you just did name us, when you said, ‘partridges’; that is the 
only name we have.” 
“No!” said Wisahketchahk; “Everything has two names.” 
“No,” they told him; “For we have only this name, ‘partridges’.” 
“No, little brother! Take thought upon it; you have some other 
name besides.” 
Thereupon the oldest of them said to him, “To be sure, my mother 
and father do say to us, ‘Little Startlers,’ we are called; and ‘Partridges’; 
we have two names.” 
“Bosh! Fine ones these are to startle anyone!” he said to them,. . . . 
to show his contempt; “You couldn’t 
startle anybody!” he told them; “You will never scare anybody!” he 
told them. 
