Title: Halq'eméylem / Story: Smoking fish

hal: Ch'axes te sth'oqwi li te letam.
english: (He) set the fish on the table.

hal: Tl'o te... tl'o kw'es ulh kw'ixetes te sth'oqwi.
english: He's gonna start cutting the fish.

hal: Osu t'eqw'otes te sx_eyes.
english: (She's) gonna start cutting the head off.

hal: Osu tl'oses kw'ixetes alhtel. Maxes te sx_epxels.
english: (He's) starting to cut the fish now, cut the tail off.

hal: Osu tl'o ses li te ekw'elets kw'ses ye lhilhets'etes. Osu lhe[?] maxes t'wa te sx_epxels
english: (He's) started from the tail, the tail part of the fish. Then they're gonna take the back bone out.

hal: Osu chelewtes qe sew xwa tl'o te lets'se maxes mek'w te sx_epxels qesu le ikw'etes
english: He turned it over, and he took the rest of the backbone out.

hal: Osu lhaq'exes li te hikw letam. Osu tl'oses th'ex_wotes qesu ... yelh chas [osu la xwas hoystexwes?]
english: (She) laid the fish on the table, and I guess that's when she washed it, and cleaned it. [last part means 'it's finished']

hal: Osu lewexes li te skw'owes. Osu tl'lhamtes. Osu xwas tl'lham tutl'o.
english: (He's) got it all salted, and it's all ready there./She put it in a bucket and it's already salted.

hal: Osu tl'alxes te sukwe qesu yelh sew[?] tl'lhamtes qelat.
english: (He) put the (brown) sugar on it first, and then he put salt in it and then it'll be ready.

hal: Osu lhaq'exes mekw' li te letam kw'ses ulh hoy kw'es tl'atl'xes te tl'alhem. O cha su lhixw awe kw'es slhalheq's li te tetha.
english: Got em all laying on the table, and (she's) gonna leave it there for three hours, before (she) takes it away [or hangs it up, or something]

hal: Ew sch'echastexwes te sth'oqwi li te letam qesu las suq'em kw'e syeyelh o cha hokwexews ew lames q'eywetes.
english: (She) put the fish on the table, and then (she) went out and looked for some sticks to use it to hang it up.

hal: Osu kw'a tl'alx te syeyelh ixw me kwut, ixw me olex_et i te sx_epxels te sth'oqwi, shxwelischa kw'a's q'eywet.
english: You put all those sticks that you got, little sticks that you got, in the tail of the fish, that's where you gotta use that to hang it with.

hal: I tetha te swiyeqe olmetstes. Osu o la kwutes te tl'aqt siyolh osu la q'eywetes kw'e chichelh.
english: The man is sitting there waiting, and he's got a long stick, and he's gotta hook the fish on it, and hang it up high.

hal: Osu le hoy kw'a's q'eyq'ewet, osu la, osu p'tl'omthets. Isale swayel kw'es ewas lames xwa tl'ex_w tutl'o. Osu x_e'othel swayel telikw, eys kw'as q'eyqews
english: When you hang it up, you only hang it up for three days, three and a half days for half smoke, and four days, four and a half smoke for hard smoke, if you want it./[Last part] four days for some, you just leave it hanging.