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Iii. Miscellaneous Songs. 106

p. 63

Songs Of Derision.

[Songs of this kind were largely in Tsimshian. The following is a translation of one of them, used in making fun of a poor man who pretended that he was a chief.]

106.

Laugh at the chief! for, although he is a chief, he has no rattle in his hand.
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