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Tahādsimûsûtchi' | wewewi'lemita' | manetû' ,,
What they tell about | the horned | snake

yu'ma | Sawanwaki' | yelatuwewadshi'.
in | the Sha'wano | language.
[[image: horizontal } pointing downwards]]

Kietaktho'ta | mē'mskwak | wile'tā | seskwipa'gak | wile'ta
A fawn | having one | of its horns red, | one blue | of its horns

nene-utheta'; | sekameka' [[strikethrough]] ; [[/strikethrough]] | tepā'ne | wewithenita' | mayani
(has) been seen; | long time since [[strikethrough]] wh [[/strikethrough]] | alone | ^[[(menstruating)]] when eating | a young

=kwe' | hunewalî'. | Nepiki' | seksinwa' | kadeskihi'
woman | saw it. | In the water | it was lying | just only

thak'kwehukwi' | hīne'ne; | nûki' | nihā'dshi | metchileki'
upright to the neck | this time; | again | when she went there | more extensively

(m) siskwikamî' | nepi'. | Nuki' | unewa'li | huwe' | manetûwi'li;
had spread out | the water. | Again | she perceived it, | but now | in form of a snake;

gashka' | mata' | wisă' | hadshimû' | nuki' | hī'ne | hilesitchi'.
still | not | would she | tell about it, | when again | she menstruated.

Hini' yashka' | yeha'dshi | huwe' | psa'wi | mshke'kwi;
To the same spot | when she ^[[(again)]] came | then | larger (had become) | the lake;

paye'kwa | mata' | hunewalî', | paye'kwa | pa-issi' | hulāte'
but | not | she saw (the snake) | though | alike to | [[strikethrough]] Co [[/strikethrough]] boiling (was)

hi'ni | mske'kwi. | Hieki' | pakidsī'dsi | huwe' | hadshimû'
that | lake. | When | she went home | then | she related

yēssi' | nawadshi' | nelî' | manitulî'.
in which shape | she had seen | that | snake-like (monster).

Huwe' | hina' | ileni' | wetanthi'ta | yûlûma'
Hereupon | that | man | (who was) her father | of this 

mayāni = kweli' | humawatuimahî' | hileni[[strikethrough]] [[accent mark]] [[/strikethrough]]hi' | tchinä | pasitothi'.
young woman | assembled | men | and | old men