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They were covered with fine twigs, and upon the twigs earth was placed. "Kloshe," she said. "Hyas kloshe," said her husband, who squatted near by, watching the proceedings with evident approval. "What did they say?" I asked. "I know what they said, but I don't know what they meant," responded Oliver, "unless it was she had done a good job; and I think she has."
Moosu tried to protest at this, for never had we permitted more than a handful to be drunk at a time; but they cried, 'KLOSHE! KLOSHE! and made festival before my door. And while they waxed uproarious without, as the liquor went to their heads, I held council within with Angeit and the faithful ones. I set them the tasks they were to do, and put into their mouths the words they were to say.
To the Saghalie Tyee, the chief above, they also prayed to potlach kloshe to them, and guard them from the evil chehahs hovering round. After the relief of prayer, their spirits rose, and once again the splashing of their paddles marked their onward progress. Soon they glided by Hy-wach-es Creek and rounding Wak-ah-nit they came in view of the great valley where the Tsomass flows.
And because of the things I have related do I make abdication and give my chiefship to Moosu, who alone knoweth how ye may be fed in this day when there be no meat in the land. "At this there was a great clapping of hands, and the people cried, 'KLOSHE! KLOSHE! which means 'good. I had seen the wonder-worry in Moosu's eyes; for he could not understand, and was fearful of my white man's wisdom.
I'm getting compliments from everybody to-night. I'm really flattered. I want to hear some more." "Better not," he advised apprehensively. "But I want to." "Ya-as," Simon drawled again. "Hyas kloshe tenas klootchman ah-ha. What name you callum?" "Missee Clyde Bullaby," Feng replied, making a manful attempt at Clyde's surname, which was quite beyond his lingual attainments. "Clyde!"
The drink that makes men strong and happy and wise as gods!" He called loudly. Two of his canoemen rolled a cask to his feet, and, upending it, broached in the head. Seizing a tin cup, LeFroy plunged it into the cask and drank with a great smacking of lips. Then, refilling the cup, he passed it to Sotenah. "See!" he cried, "it is a present from the kloshe kloochman to the people of MacNair!
The harvest was ready twice a day, when the tide was out, and we need have no fear of a famine even if cast away in some unfrequented place. "Ya-ka kloshe al-ta," said the Indian woman, uncovering the steaming mass and placing the clams on a sliver found near by. "De-late kloshe muck a muck alta."
Even he, LeFroy, did not know it until the kloshe kloochman the good white woman came into the North and built a school at the mouth of the Yellow Knife. She is the real friend of the Indians. For she brought goods, even more goods than are found in the largest of the Hudson Bay posts, and she sells them at prices unheard of at their real value in the land of the white man.
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