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A MOHEGAN-PEQUOT DIARY 233 



1904 



May 17. — Drizzle to-day. Maybe to-morrow can I go to Land- 

 ing. I can not say because I do not iinow. Those people [who] 

 can say much, half [what] they say is not true as they say [it]. 



May 18. — Cloudy, looks rainy, been full moon. 



May 19. — Cloudy, looks rainy, going to rain. Drizzle and rain. 

 Dreadfully wet [are] things. I want to eat fish [but] I can not catch 

 [one], I am sorry for that. 



May 20. — Drizzle, looks rainy, it has been full moon last evening. 

 I heard hounds, probably they chased a fo.x.'* Already night. 



May 21 . — Cloudy all day and rain [for] five days. Rain at noon. 

 I stayed [at] Landing last night, then all broke away, did not rain, 

 then I came home. 



May 22. — Looking clear [at] sun rising. 



May 23. — Looking clear now at early morning sun. All things 

 feed. Going to be many apples. 



May 24- — Nearly noon, already I ate my dinner because I was 

 hungry. 



May 25. — Ma'ndu is good, he gives me my strength so that I can 

 get up [and] I help myself, because never anyone helps me. 



May 26. — Went to Palmertown yesterday, dreadfully was I tired 

 last evening. Only Ma'ndu is good he helps me. 



May 27. — Because I can not help myself, that is why anyone does 

 not know only a little. That is ever so. 



May 28. — Sun rises early. Ma'ndu is good because I do not have 

 anyone only Ma'ndu. He helps me [in] all things. Hens have eggs, 

 I need eggs, [since] I have only a little money, so I do not die of 

 hunger. Dreadfully cold, that is so. I am going to see the pitiful 

 boy [who] is lame.^' I am sorry for him, he can not help himself, 

 that is so. 



May 29. — Ma'ndu is good. I slept. Nothing come [that] I feared. 



May SO. — Cloudy day. Ma'ndu is good. I slept last night. I 

 see another sun. I get up, I go to milk; I eat my breakfast. I do 

 not have anyone to help me. That is so. 



May 31. — Ma'ndu is good because he helps me in all things I think, 

 Ma'ndu helps me. 



" The location of the old lady's home was in a wild and unfrequented district marked by the signs of 

 former Mohegan occupation, but in her time it had reverted to "old fields." the lurking place of deer, foxes 

 and small animals which were her familiar neighbors. 



» She refers to a young Mohegan, Theodore Cooper, who was at that time a cripple from the elTects of 

 inflammatory rheumatism. 



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