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CHRONICLES OF WOLFTOWN — KILPATRICK 



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na : sgigwo 

 that, just 



nitsv : ne : hahnv 



then you (pi.) make it (Imp.) 



hi?tsa : n(e) tsvdh6 : sdigwo : hyehno 

 this to remember you (pi.), just, for 



d agwade : hyo'iiAf : i da : gwo : hwe : la : ha? : hno 



there I taught there I wrote, and 



gohwe:li dfsginv:ne:Iv:h^ 



letter you must send it to me 



narsgi tsad\^:n(e)di ges6:sdi 



that to do, you 



ga : 1 (a) sdhu wosd i : y i 



to pull off the leaves, one 



na : gwohno : 



now, and 



ges6:sdi gha? inorli 



now Ino:li 



gha? 



now 



gho : higwo 

 now, just 



na : gw6hyehn6 

 now, for 



it will be 



ayv 

 I 



gha? 

 now 



goMrsdi 



something 



it will be 



hitsiyorisdanv 

 this you (pi.) stopped 



usv:hiy6:gwo detsordvlv 



late afternoon, mountains, your 



tsagolf : ye : di hi?a? 



to read, you this 



sdhi : wi go : w6 : Iv : gd, 



SdhI: wl I just wrote it 



ges6:sdi 

 It will be 



sgin6:tshe:l\? 

 you (pi.) asked me 



ino:li 



Ino:li 



tsa:hli:ye?li:[59] 

 this week 



u:sgwalv:hv 

 the time 



ud6:dagwadv [e"] 

 all day 



(on vkrso, first notation) 



hi?a?sgini tsi : sgwanf : da 



this, In particular Tsi:sgwanl:da 



gvin^'i'di 



to give you (hard), I 



na : sgigwo 

 that, just 



gohwe : li 



letter 



nigd:v [•''J 

 aU 



(on verso, second notation) 



hi'i'a' ino:li higoliy6:v:ha go:hl(i)tsv: 



this Ino:li this you must read understood, it 



iyd:hno: gets6 : hli : sdi ges6:sdi 



if, and to understand It (cond.), you It will be 



FREE TRANSLATION 



(on recto) 



September 13, 1854 



Now! Ino:li, I wrote you this letter. 



Now! This is what the chief said: "It has become time for him 

 to teach them. Sdhi:wi, Dila:sge:sgi, and Di:ghuyi:sgi, it is true that 

 you have set the fee at $0.25. U:sgwaniye:dv is to teach all of you, 

 if all of you say so," he stated. "This U:sgwaniye:dv will have to be 

 helped with his corn fodder-pulling," they say he stated. 



"All right, then," I stated. "Let it be this way," I stated. "Now! 

 Now 1 hear that it is this way: that it is a small field that we are to 

 pull fodder in." This is what he was talking about. 



This is what he said: " 'We have just small fields,' they have said 

 that they said." 



»' There is a superfluous final syllable i (see footnote 53, p. 24). 



«" The second syllable is erroneously written go. 



«' Of several quantities of intrinsically diflerent natures. 



