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People used to get the
eggs of many birds, but never those of snipers. They used to
leave their eggs alone. They would also not look at these
birds when they were flying. If you did look up at them they
would start diving and would get closer. Also even if their
eggs were found we were told to leave them alone. I don't
know why we were told to leave them alone, even though we
always took other eggs. Those eggs we always left alone.
Sometimes when sniper were flying we would hear them and
they would get closer and louder. We never collected certain
other eggs either, like small ones of birds that live in
trees, like swallows. They made their nests for their babies
in trees, or on the land, sometimes near the
ocean.
Out at the edge of the
ocean on some hillsides they had their babies, and when they
fly, boy, it's like they're playing, just swooping up and
down with the other birds the way they do. They would fly
really fast, first down low to the land then up again high
into the sky, all in the snap of a finger. Above the shallow
part of the bay on the side of the hill, that's where they
used to be.
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Yaquleksaraat upnerkani
irniariit tegutullruyaqellruaput, taugam kukukuat kayaanguit
teguyuitellruaput. Cali pagani tengaurqata
tangvasqessuinaki. Cali kayanguit nataqengraata
tangenrilnuarluki yuaruarluki pinarqut teguuyuinaki. Ciinkiq
tuaten pilartatatki kukuukuinraat?
Amtall iliata kayanguit
tegguaqlluki, kukukuat taugam kayaanguit teguuyuinaki. Cali
tuaten pani elluuraaqata anguucalisit cakneq tuai erinateng
kayuriluki elluuratulriit tangraralriani
caniimelliinarlartut qasturiinaqluteng. Tuaten tamakut
kukutat. Netetullraput tamalkuita kayanguit makut taugam
mikellrit uqvartat kayaangut makut taugam mikellrit uqvartat
kayaangut teguyutellruaput nakleklluki tuai. Makut
puyiiranek pilaaqeput uksullararnet-llu tamaakut
teguyuitellruaput. Cali makut canek imkut aperlaqait.
Kauturyat tamakut-llu kayaanguit teguuyuinaki. Tengaaqamek
ikikika tuai atrarnaurtut. Qilaangat, taituiraat, arliat,
uyalget. Ugiinat-llu cali tuani pitullruluteng uai taugken
piyuirulluteng. Qulvanun mayurluteng ugiinat, angelriit
imkut ugiinarnek pilaqait, atraqer cameng tua
cilurluteng.
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