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Haida texts and myths

Note 4 — Two Children’s Stories

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After they had taken all into the house he went to the neighboring town for some live coals. When he came through the doorway they asked him: “What do you come for, Song-sparrow?” And he said: “I come for live coals, skia′ldjîgut skā′ldjigut skētcꜝē′gut.”4 After he had said this he spat out the blood of a piece of the grizzly bear that he had in his mouth.

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