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June 10. — Ma'ndu is good. I can not be anything [yet]. Ma'ndu 

 will help me. 



June 11. — Ma'ndu is good. I have strength so that I can make 

 my food, I can eat when hungry. One must be hungry then eat, 

 that is so, finding scarcely anything. 



June 12. — Ma'ndu is good because I can sleep, then can I get up 

 early in the morning I eat, then another being *^ am I. 



June IS. — Cloudy, cold, Ma'ndu is good. Nothing I feared, last 

 night I slept. That is so ! 



June 15. — Sun rising clear early in the morning I got [something] 

 from the river. 



June 17. — Ma'ndu is good. I slept last evening. I went to 

 Muddy Cove, nothing [there]. 



June 1.9. — The sun is good, rising clear. Ma'ndu is good, so well 

 can T get up. Thank j^ou Ma'ndu. 



June 21. — Good sun rising. Ma'ndu is good he gives it [that] day 

 [and] night come. All things come as being made by Ma'ndu. 



June 23. — The sun is good early in the morning. Ma'ndu is good. 

 I see another daj^ I can get up [and] eat. I went by the road yester- 

 day. 



June 24- — Sun is rising. Ma'ndu is good, I have strength so that 

 I get up from the bed. That is so! 



May 6. — That stone ^* where the witches came does not rest 

 there [now]. Maybe [they] took it to hell. Witches can not stay 

 in heaven. I think maybe he took it; it is so big all the witches 

 can go inside it. That stone [was] a house. [They] wall be going to 

 make a fire so that they make something to eat. Perhaps bread and 

 cheese will they eat. Perhaps it is cold, then will they want a fire to 

 warm their hands. Then will they divide ^' their money, that they 



<8 Sic! Yet what she really says is "things!" 



5^ The narrator here refers to a Mohegan folic-taie which she narrated to rae some years ago and which I 

 published as a test (.\merican Anthropologist, vol. 6, No. 4, 1904). The stone referred to was a glacial 

 bowlder about as large as an ordinary small house, located formerly not far from the main road at Quaker 

 Hill, near Uncasville. Conn. It was blasted .away over 20 years ago, not taken away by "the witches,'* 

 as Mrs. Fielding would beguile us into believing. The theme of the tale is rather common in Algon- 

 kian lore. One stormy night a weary Indian woman was deceived by "the witches" and lured into the 

 bowlder as into a house, fed and warmed by a fire. But upon awakening in the morning the poor 

 creature found herself lying cold and exposed beside the bowlder, her warm goblin's pallet and fire vanished, 

 and her victuals converted into fraud. A tempting opportunity for sermonizing and for voicing the same 

 old plaint of the Indian's undeserved poverty not overlooked by Mrs. Fielding. 



»» Literally "halve," see dja't'cr on page following. 



