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“ tdpwd Hsindtsihdw uimkmidkanah ! kakwd-utinihk ! ” itwdwdn, 
dsihk dh-ndtahuht. 
utdsih oma utinamwdn ; namuya dkutah aydw, dh~kdkU. 
‘‘ idpw ds dni dh-nipahisut ! ” itdw. 
wdhyaw dkutd kapdw, hutak d-sdkahikanisiwiyik dkutdh dh-ituhtdi. 
latahtawd dkutd kd-matwd-nikamut, ds dni d-kakwd-Msihikuyahk sihkihp ! 
dtdh maiwd-nikamow ! ntsawdts pahkupdk ; miskawdydku, nipahdhkdk 
kd-kisindtsihdt mwah I ” dh-iiiht, 
dkwah misiwd dh-ntundht nijnhk, piyisk kdkway miskuskahkwdwih, 
Htahtawd dh-tah-tahkiskahkik, kltaktawd tdpiskots dh-matwdwdyik dh~ 
itihtahkik, “ ukdwiyah ds ohi dh-pdskataydskdmiht ; dkusi kinipahdnaw ! ” 
dh-itwdyit oh ayisiyiniwah, 
pdnihik. 
ha, dkuyikuhk dskwdk dtaydhkdwin. 
Once upon a time there was an old man, and an old woman, and two 
young women, the children of that old man and his wife. Then at one 
time the old man fell sick; at last he died. Then there were only three of 
them, the old woman and her two daughters. They stayed in the same 
place. They dwelt there, in the end, for a long time. Then, in time, the 
old woman, too, fell ill; in the end, she was sick a long while. Then she 
was about to die. 
She spoke thus: “My children, go away from here; try to find some 
people. If you find a man, marry him,’^ she told them; “Perhaps in this 
way you will not starve to death.” 
“Yes,” said the young women. 
Thereupon soon the old woman lived no more. 
Then the young women spoke thus: “Our mother said this to us: ‘Go 
away from here when I die,' said our mother,” spoke the elder sister. 
“And so tomorrow we shall go,” they said. 
Accordingly, on the morrow they set out. They left behind all their 
possessions. At last, when they had slept twice on the way, they came to 
a river. There were many berries. And they were hungry. There they 
gathered berries and ate them. 
Thus spoke the elder sister: “Now, sister, let us not go away from here. 
If we leave these berries which w'e are eating, we shall starve,” she said 
to her younger sister. 
Accordingly, they stayed there. Whenever they were thirsty, they 
went to the water and drank from the stream. In the end they stayed 
there a long time. 
Then at one time, when they had been there for quite a while, as 
they went to the river to drink, they played about there, casting pebbles 
into the water, to amuse themselves. Presently they saw someone coming 
downstream, paddling a canoe. 
“Sister, who is that?” cried the younger one. 
When the elder sister looked over there, “Why, sister, sureW, a man!” 
said the elder sister; “Little sister, ‘If you see a man, marry him, and 
perhaps you will not starve to death,' our mother said to us,” she told her 
younger sister. 
