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" Long time ago, when first Indian makeum 

 God." 



Or this : 



"Joe Williams his hogs my heelus (eels) 

 eatem all up." 



This is a language where the roots of words 

 are all smoothly dovetailed into one another to 

 form one long word, which is really a sentence. 

 Here is such a word : Ydle-oole-wiaktdiue-pokose. 

 This signifies, "I am walking about carrying a 

 beautiful black umbrella over my head." The 

 word is made up from other words, as follows: 

 Ydlea, I walk about ; maktdudre, I am black ; 

 welae, I am beautiful ; pokuoson, a shelter over 

 the head. The roots of all these words are 

 easily discovered in the long word that is a reg- 

 ular verb in the indicative mood, present tense, 

 first person, singular. As a sample of such 

 long words, here we have one meaning " They 

 are going to eat supper together " : Najdejemow- 

 weoolowouadullaolteedussuneega. This word- 

 building is a very different thing from simply 

 throwing whole words together, as if we were to 

 write it in English thus : Theyaregoingtoeat- 

 suppertogether. 



A very much nicer arrangement is in the In- 

 dian speech. The speaker makes the long word 

 when he needs it, and he does that by certain 



