SOME LINGUISTIC NOTES ON THESE TEXTS. 
These texts are of especial linguistic importance as they differ 
stylistically and in content from any Fox texts published by the late 
Doctor Jones. Hence it is that we have a rather different vocabulary. 
It may be noted that the loose composition, described by me in the 
American Anthropologist, n. s. 15,473 et seq., and in the International 
Journal of American Linguistics, 1, 50 et seq., is a favorite construc- 
tion in this text. Examples are: ki'ci-megu-pdni-‘ane’ta-ke-‘tena- 
i’/netamwa, ‘‘some have already ceased to think it true,’ 246.17, 18° 
(inclusion of megu, a particle of weak meaning, aneta, an independent 
pronoun meaning ‘‘some,”’ an adverb ke'tena, meaning “truly,” here 
with adjectival sense, within the verbal compound); &nawa%tci- 
megu- une'si’/mawani- wpe cki-nenu'sd cka‘cimi camegi- pa’gina*te™ 
“he threw his tobacco on the White Buffalo’s Hoof sacred pack,”’ 270.5, 
6 (inclusion of particles and nouns) ; neki'ci-tipi-ta’senwi-ka/nona™ 
“T have spoken to him the correct number of times,” 70.8 (inclusion of 
ta‘senwi, an inanimate intransitive verb, with the virtual mean- 
ing of ‘“‘times’’). See also 70.35; 70.37; 70.38; 72.13, 14; 74.12; 
74.19; 74.33; 76.24; 78.7; 80.21; 84.25; 90.30, 31; 94.15; 116.32, 33; 
120.3, 4; 124.44, 45; 126.10; 128.33; 130.23; 130.24; 130.37; 132.26; 
132.27; 132.42: 132.46, 47; 134.6, 7; 134.9, 10; 136.8, 9; 138.17; 
138.20, 21; 138.43; 140.16, 17; 140.22; 140.28; 144.12; 144.15, 16; 
144.28, 29: 144.40, 41; 146.11, 12; 146.40, 41; 148.10; 148.11, 12; 
148.15, 16; 148.16, 17; 148.23, 24; 148.25; 150.7; 150.8; 152.5; 
152.7; 152.18; 152.24; 152.37; 166.16; 166.29, 30; 210.13, 14; 
212.17; 212.17, 18. Other examples can be easily found. It should 
be noticed that it is wholly arbitrary on our part as to whether we hold 
that ka’cki “ability” is within or without the verbal compound at 
166.16 and at 166.29, though it is out of the compound at 160.8 and 
204.9; at 86.38 it probably is out of the compound; at 210.15, 210.18 
pemi may be considered as being either within or without the verbal 
compound. It is also to be observed that mawi ‘‘to go to”’ is found 
outside a verbal complex at 48.31, which shows it is not a mere prefix 
(see XIX International Congress of Americanists, 544). Though this 
loose construction is a favorite in this text, it should not be thought 
that it is confined to ritualistic texts. 
I have shown above the looseness in verbal composition; from two 
examples it appears that this looseness extends at least to’a certain 
degree in nouns: note ki‘tcimegu‘aneno’tinana “our fellow Indians,” 
84.15, 16 and 1 kwiwittca 1cité/agani ‘women’s thought,” 168.16, 
with the inclusion of the particles megu and “tca‘i respectively. 
In discussing a number of points it will be convenient to refer to the 
paragraphs of the Algonquian sketch in the Handbook of American 
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