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fully ten weeks longer. I hope it is not a case of new broom, 

 and that she will wear well. The little girl Tookymingwah, 

 whom we all call " Tooky," is a neat little seamstress, but is 

 not very rapid. A few 

 days ago her mother, 

 named Klayuh, but 

 always called by us 

 the " Widow^," arrived 

 with her two younger 

 daughters, theyoung- 

 est about five years 

 old. I asked her if 

 she had only the three 

 children, and she 

 burst into tears and 

 left the house with- 

 out answering me. 

 Turning to M'gipsu, 

 I asked her what it 

 meant, and she said it 

 was " peuk nahmee " 

 (not well) for me to 

 ask Klayuh about other children. When I insisted upon 

 knowing why, she took me aside and whispered that Klayuh 

 had just killed her youngest child, about two years of age, 

 by strangling it. She went on to explain that it was perfectly 

 right for Klayuh to do this, as the father of the child had 



M'gipsu Sewing. 



