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[Cf. Fox Texts, pp. 70-74.] 

 Ma'kwAn'^ pamine'kawatcig*.'' 



Bear they who are in pursuit of him. 



Inip'^ acawaiy^^ negutenw'^ a'pepog'^ ii'A'skime'pug'^ 



It is said long ago it was once wiien It was when first it had 



winter snowed 



a'A'skanwig'^ neswi° neniwAg'" acicawatc'" mamaiy*^^ kegiceyap-^.'^ 



while the first tliree men they went to early in the morning, 



snow was on hunt for game 



ApAta'kig'^* a'pe'kwisasAga'k'^^ ma'kwAn'^*' a'pitci'kawanitc'." 



On the hillside where it was thick bear he went in making a 



with growth trail. 



1 ma"kwAni object of the following participle {ma"kw<i animate noim, nominative singular; -n« objective 

 animate singular suffix [§ 42]). 



- pdmine'ka'wdtcPg' third person plural, animate, transitive participle (pdmi- for pemi- [initial stem 

 denoting movement past; e of pemi- becomesd in the participle, §33]; -ne'ka- a secondary stem meaning 

 TO DRIVE, TO PURSUE [§ 19]; -w- [§ 21 (?)] ; -a- refers to tlie animate object ma'kwAni; -tcigi animate, third 

 person, participial plural [§ 33]). 



3 Tnipi combination of an introductive and a quotative (I'ni [§ 47] singular, inanimate, demonstrative 

 pronoim used as an introductive; i'p' impersonal quotative, occiu-ring usually as a sufli.x [§ 41]). 



* a'cawapy temporal adverb expressing remote time in the past (§ 53). 



5 ne'gute^nwi iterative (§ 52) in the form of the third person singular, inanimate, intransitive verb of 

 the independent series (§ 28). 



^d"pepo^gi third person singular inanimate intransitive verb of the indefinite conjunctive mode (o- 

 temporal augment; pep- initial stem used to e.xpress notions of winter, cold, snow [§ 16]; -gi sulBx with 

 a locative sense [§ 42]). 



T dwski'me'pu^gi same kind of verb as in note 6 (aski- initial stem signifying e.\rlv. .soon, first [§ IH]; 

 me- initial stem common with words for sxow, ice, cold; me'pu- to snow). 



^d'Askdnw'^gi an impersonal verb of the intransitive conjunctive mode (Ask- same as in note 7;-dnw- 

 secondary stem denoting st.\te, condition; -gi suffix with locative sense). 



9 n«'«tt'» cardinal used as an adjective to the following noun. 



^one'niwA^gi animate, plural noun, subject of the following verb {ne'niwa nominative singular; -g' 

 suffix denoting plurality [§ 42]). 



^^ dcl'cdwd^tc' (clcci Initial stem to hunt; third person plural, animate, intransitive verb of the con- 

 junctive mode [§ 29]). 



12 md'maiya temporal adverb expressing relative time. 



13 kegl'ceyd'pa temporal adverb referring to that part of the morning just before and immediately after 

 sunrise. 



1* apA'td'kVgi independent, intransitive, verbal combination used like a noun (apAt- akin to d'pe'ta^w* 

 signifying hal;-', part of; -d'ki- akin to a"k' meaning e.*.rtii, ground, land; -gi locative suffix). 



i'^ dpe'kwisasAga'ki same kind of verb as in note 6 (a- vowel augment same as in note 6, but used here, 

 as in other places of the text, with a relative force; pe'kwi- initial stem denoting density, thickne.'S 

 [§16]; sasAg- reduplicated form of the initial stem SAg- [see SAgi- § 16], which has taken on the sense of 

 TAKING hold OF; -ki third person, inanimate, pronominal ending of the conjmictive mode[§ 29]). 



16 ma"kwAni objective forna of an animate noim used as the subject of the subordinate verb that follows. 



^''apitci'ka'wdni^tc' third person singular, animate, intransitive verb of the conjunctive mode, used 

 with a subordinate subject in the objective relation {pit- initial stem denoting movement into an 

 enclosure [§ 16]; for the tci- of pltci- cf. pydtci- under pyd-, also § 8; 'ka- secondary stem expressing the 

 notion of making an imprint, sign, track, and of moving, going [§ IS]; -icd- connective stem [§ 20]; -ni- 

 incorporated representative of an objective relation, and parallel in construction to -«' in ma'kwAni. 

 It belongs with -tci in nitci, and so enters into a subjective relation [§ 34]). 



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