Note 81 — Raven Traveling

After he had traveled for a while he came to a woman with a good-sized labret weaving a water-tight basket, and he asked her: “Say, skᴀñ,81 have you seen my cousin?” She paid no attention to him, and he again said to her: “Say, skᴀñ, have you seen my cousin?” Again she paid no attention to him. “Skᴀñ, I can knock out your labret.” “Don’t. Over yonder is a qꜝa′ła82 point, beyond which is a spruce point, beyond which is a hemlock point, beyond which is an alder point. At that point in front of the shell of a sqā′djix̣ū83 on which he is drawing is your cousin.” Then he started over, and it was as she said. “Say, cousin, is that you?” [he said], and he pulled him up straight, and they started off together.