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pot dkwah dh-pdtamdht ivisahkdtsdhk, ayamihtdw. 
“ kiy dtukd mdka mina, wisahkdtsdhk, oma kd-iotaman, ” itdw. 
tapasiw ; namuy dhpdh awiyah wdpahtdhdw oma masinahikan ; dkvs 
isi dy-isih-tapa^t. 
ndvr-tipiskdw pimdmdw. kltahtawd d-misdyik sdkahikan dw-utihtahk, 
“ dkmi kd-klh-ititdn, ‘ wisahkdtsdhk mdka min dtukd kiy a , ' kd-kiy-dtitan^ ” 
itik aylsiyiniwahf dh-nakiskawdt sisund sdkahikanihk ; “ hdWj unsahkdt^ 
sdhk, ka-mdtawdndnaw ! ” itik. 
dkwah idpwd kakwdtsimdw tdnisi kit~dsi~mdtawdtsik. 
“ waskits niplhk ka-pimuhtdndnaw, ” itik. 
“ dha’ j ” itwdw msahkdtsdhk. 
tdpwd ati-sipwdhtdw awa udsahkdtsdhkwah kd-mawindhwdt. namwdts 
ahpo wayiskam nipiy. akdmihk dh-klh-takuhtdt, dkutd uhtsi tdpwdtdw 
udsahkdtsdhkwah . 
haw, mwdhtsi tdwakdm aydtsih wisahkdtsdhk, dkutah ntawi-kihtd- 
payiw ; mdka namuya niioih-nipahdw. dkutah nipihk ta-mdtsimwdtsih- ■ 
nahapiw ! ” 
tdpwdh iidmi-nipihk dkutd nahapiw, itamihk nipihk. kahkiyaw kdkway 
dh-atuidt, nama wiya tdpwdhtdk. 
kahkiyaw, nkustdndn kd-tdtask, ” itik. 
kltahtawd mdkwah kd-tdpdyimut kit-otindt udsahkdtsdhkwah. utinik 
dyakunih, dkusi pimdtsihik. 
Once upon a time he went from place to place; for Wisahketchahk 
did all kinds of things. He even managed to become a captain of soldiers. 
Once upon a time, the story goes, he set out. Well, he tramped about. 
Presently he came to a wooden house. 
“Ha, stay a while, stay a while, big brother!” 
So he stayed there. A woman looked for something to give him to 
eat. Ho, he saw nothing at all in the way of food that she could take. 
At once she took out a shawl and threw it on the table. There he saw all 
kinds of food. 
In his usual way, Wisahketchahk thought, “I shall steal it,” he thought. 
He kept revolving in his mind how he could make his hostesses want 
to sleep. 
He said, “Now, in return, my little sisters, for four nights I will tell 
you stories.” 
“Oh, indeed, big brother, we like story-telling!” those women said 
to him. 
He never saw them do any cooking. 
“When she goes to sleep, I shall steal her shawl from her,” thought 
Wisahketchahk, and told stories all night. 
But they did not go to sleep. All the next day he told stories. When 
another night came, again they did not sleep at all. 
“Could it be that I should be unable to steal it from them!” 
When he had told stories for exactly four nights and days, then those 
young women went to sleep. He searched where they kept their things; 
he stole it from them. So then he went off with it; he fled. 
For four days and nights he ran. Then at one time he heard someone 
noisily chopping wood. 
