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June /P.- Great Father staj'ing in heaven. Very great is your 

 name. May your heaven come. Likewise as is your command, so 

 may they say here on earth as it is going on in heaven. Give [us] 

 to-day bread, so, too, for another day. Make my heart good so 

 that I may not like things evil, because yours is heaven, yours is 

 strength very good; that is forever [and] forever." 



November 1. — Clear sun. Ma'ndu is good because I can help 

 myself. My heart is closed up, that is so! Ma'ndu takes away 

 these things not good. Because he is good I ain going to be good too. 



1905 



January 6. — Mohegan, much fallen snow, snowing now. Can not 

 anyone go [out], only men. Dreadfully cold. I have not seen 

 anyone since Sunday, [when] Rosse Skeezucks " came here. Can 

 not anyone go out from here from the house, all snow. Everyone 

 must shovel it clear. 



January 7. — Saturday. Rain last night. Snow half gone, can 

 see the ground again. 



" This is Mrs. Fielding's Mohegan Lord's Prayer. She was in her latter days a Seventh Day .\dventiatSi 

 Professor Prince, in a former article on this dialect (American .Vnthropologist, vol. 5, No. 2, p. '208, 1903) 

 has repnxluced and restored the Lord's Prayer in Pequot as it was recorded in Governor Salteristall's 

 notes (1721), and later pubUshed in the first annual report of the American Society, 1824, p. 54. This was 

 reprinted in DoForest's History of the Indians of Connecticut, p. 39. Professor Prince's restored version 

 seems to show signs of its being a dialect slightly variant from the one preserved by Mrs. Fielding, unles 

 the differences between the two are due entirely to the changes wrought by time. 



^1 Jerome Roscoe Skeesucks was one of the Indian boys at that time living at Mohegan. (See photo 

 jil. 30, r. d.') His father was from Brothertnn, Wisconsin, of Xarragansett descent. His mother was o, 

 half Nehantic descent, a native of Mohegan. The family patronym is from sky'zalis, "eyes," or "littlef 

 eye," common to Mohegan-Pequot, Xan-agansett, and Massachusetts. The name may be traced back 

 to a chieftain in the time of King Philip's War (1675-76). 



