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 NO. I MYTHS OF THE ALSEA INDIANS OF NORTHWESTERN OREGON

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��temu n 'hu k'e'a imstl'lnx. temu n 'hu

qalpai' tsi'lhidux". "ha'mk'ix, 1 ha'mk'ix, ha'mk'ix!" temu n 'hu aini'suwltxal' as mukwa 8 sli. "ana'-f-, la'ltqalx-E'n tsa s ti 5 a'sin ma'hats?" ts-yEai'sk' ats-u'yak'.

��! Llya 8 qa a 'tsE temu n 'hu k'eai'. mu n 'hu yuxe'lnx as tsExal'.

��tem-axa

��mis k'eai' mu n 'hu

��ma yEx limtsi'mxaxamt."

��tem-axa mu n 'hu qal'k'a!'. La'qayu-axa - 10 mu n 'hu tsimtsi'mxaxak'. 3 tern k'Ets mu n 'hQ qal'k'al'. xuts hl'k'e mis qal'- slo, temu n 'hu xe'tsux".

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Temu n 'hu 4 qalpai' wllx Is tsa'mst na'tk' 1. temu n 'hu ayai'. te'mlta LEai'sx

15 as tsa'sidu k'aux lu n 'tsxa. "k'i'naux hi'tE mu n 'hu la" klwaya'a? a'a, k'in qa'halt ma'hats k'lai'tlyutlE'mxus 6

mukwi'st-auk'." tem k'Ets mu"'hfl

laai'tlyutlEm as mEta'lkustlxatu, 6 k'Ets

20 a'niyux"' temau'x LEai'sx xas tsa'sidu as mEta'lkustlxatu k - laya'tauyEm, temau'x mu n 'hu pli'xanx. te'mlta mu n 'hu k'e'a hauwi'tit-s-ma'hats. temau'x mu n 'hu

k- loqudiyu'Lx, temau'x mu n 'hu

25 pxe'pxeltsusi'ltlxa. "k'ist iltqa'a-En?

xukwai'tist-auk- a'!" temau'x mu n 'hu k-e'a Imstl'nx. tem mi'sxwauk- 7 }ha'- kwai'tEx, k'Ets yal'x-auk- Is hai n8 a'nlyux". k'Ets hl'k'e hauk's tsila"tal.

30 ! Llya' qa a 'tsE tsila"tal hauk's, te'mltak" pa'kantxal. "pqanl'sEx! 8 qo'tsE k'Ets ta* Lxama'k'ink-alsx." temu n 'hu Lxauwai'- stEx ya'sau: "Q'k'Ex-E'n? tas S 8 u'ku yal'tsxa ham hllkwal's." 9 tem k'Ets

35 mu n 'hu tslqui'xa. "he+, tsilhu nak u tas tk'a'mk'la."

Tai* mu n 'hu. 1 mk-- TO JOIN.


 * Oq- TO BE WELL.

3 Contracted for ts-ntEtsi'mxaxak'.

4 Compare Boas (JAFL 11:145); Sapir (PAES 2:3). 6 ait- TO DRIFT.

'ta'lkust! RECEPTACLE.

��person). Thereupon it was done so. So then he began to sing his song: "Come together, come together, come together!" Then the woman (whom he was doctoring) attempted to cry. "Well, what on earth is he doing to my child?" (those were) the words of her mother. Then (it was) not long, when he finished. Thereupon the partition was removed. "He said that he was now through doctoring." And then he ran away. Now, his subject for doc- toring became well after he ran away. As soon as daylight appeared, he started out.

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And then he came again to another river. Then he went on. Soon he saw two women who were bathing. "(I) wonder in what way I can fool those two! Yes, (disguised) as a child I will float in a canoe." Then he floated in a basket, crying all the time. Then the two women saw the basket as it was floating, whereupon they two went to look at it. And, verily, a young child (was in that basket). Then they two took hold of it, and began to ask each other, "What shall we two do with it? Pray, let us take it out (from the basket) !" So, verily, they two did this. And after they two had taken it out, (the child) kept on cry- ing very hard. It was just reaching out (with its hands) everywhere. It was not reaching out everywhere (very) long, cum vulvam (puellae quae infantem tenebat) tangere inchoaret. "What a nasty thing! Why! it is bent upon mischief!" Thereupon it was thrown (away, and the two girls) kept on say- ing, "Who art thou? Thy actions are differ- ent (from) those (of) S 8 Q'ku." And then (Coyote) laughed. "Hey! macilenta est vulva puellae eae."

Only now (it ends).

7 Transposed for mi'saux-auk'.

' A term denoting anger, and corresponding to the English expletive " 'S'- death!"

9 This sentence is not correct; for, as a matter of fact, S'tiku, the Transformer, tried to perform a similar trick.

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