Florence Shaughnessy

"The Klamath Bridge" (1986)

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Text identifier: LA181-10
Speaker: Florence Shaughnessy
Primary documentation: Jean Perry
Project transcription: Adrienne Mamin

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  1. Wer-gerh-per-yerh 'o Kla-math.
    We always crossed a bridge at Klamath.
  2. Kwe-see pa-'aahl 'o lehl-koo', tue' kue wee-'eeet ... 'o kee-puen toy 'o lech-ke-ne'm kue ... too-mok's kue ce-ment.
    And it fell into the water, and in the winter here they threw big pieces of cement there.
  3. It was ce-ment.
    It was cement.
  4. Kwe-see kue nek 'oo-lo' nue-mee 'wehee-choy weet 'ap 'o me-kwehl pa-'aahl.
    And right below where I lived, it got piled up in the water there.
  5. Tue' kol-chee plop', kem 'o kaa-mop' 'o yue'.
    And whenever it flooded, the water was rough there again.
  6. Kwe-see 'eesh-kuue mo-'ok'w.
    And gradually there was none.
  7. Kwe-see wee-'eeet keech 'e-nue-mee plop', 'eesh-kuue mo-'ok'w kue ... 'ue-kaa-mo-pek' 'o kes.
    And it really flooded there, and slowly there wasn't any rough water down there.
  8. Kwe-see wee-'eeet pue-lekw kwe-lekw keech 'o lech-ke-nekw.
    And at the mouth of the river, it was flooded.
  9. Tue' wee-'eeet nek soo, mehl mee' sku'y soo 'ok'w 'o pue-lekw, sku'y soo rek'-woyk k'ee pa-'ah, 'ohl-kue-mee ske-leek wee-'eeet, he-sek' nek.
    This is what I think, because it's good at the river mouth, the water is good at the river mouth, because it's down there, I think.
  10. Ske-leek nee 'oo' wee-'eeet tue' kue ce-ment kue ho werh-per-yerh 'o kem mee' 'ee keech mo-'ok'w 'o yo' 'ohl-kue-mee kee le-wo-lah mos chee-taa ko'l sook koh-che-wohl.
    It's down below, the cement that used to be a bridge, because it's not there anymore, because ... they couldn't catch anything at all.
  11. Kwe-lekw wo'hl tue' weesh kee hee-men koh-che-wohl mo-cho wee' ske-lee keech wo' 'oo' 'o yo'.
    Well, they could catch it fast when it was down there.
  12. Kwe-lekw keech nek he-sek' pue-lekw wo-'oot tue' weesh keet hoh-kue'm 'ue-kaa-mo-pek' 'o pue-lekw.
    I think that's what started to make the mouth of the river rough.
  13. That's it.
    That's it.