136 MOJSOLOGUES AiJD DIALOGUES. 



is the elder sister, called so by or with reference to a .vouuger brother. Two other 

 terms exist for the relative age of sisters among themselves. 



134, 11. pAtkalp'Ie. The niytli adds, that the eagle got up again at dinner-time and 

 that after washing the face he took a nap before taking his sister home. 



II. These items were all obtained in the Modoc dialect from J. 0. D. Riddle. 

 Many of the articles mentioned as gamblers' amnlets are supposed to bring good 

 luck to the gambler on account of their scarcit;/, which must have made them more 

 interesting to the aboriginal mind than other objects of a brighter exterior. 



134, 13. ntiiggal, ud4kal: to find accidentally; shl^a: to find, generally, after a 

 search, vumi' is to hide away either on one's own person or in the ground. 



134, IG. IS. tidsh tin;/a is to succeed, to be lucky; without tidsh in: hiitoks tin- 

 ;^antko gi, that man is lucky. 



134, 17. sht^]> is a black arrow-head made of obsidian, a volcanic rock found in 

 several places in these highlands. 



135, 1. hii'-atoks is formed from ha toks with intercalation of the declarative 

 particle a. 



135, 3. k'le-ugtki-uapkasht is a periphrastic conjugational form composed of gi- 

 uApkasht, of the verb gi, and of k'leutka, the usitative of k'16wi, to cease, stop, termi- 

 nate; -utka has turned into -ugt- by metathesis. Literally: "would habitually cease 

 to be in the Pit River." mhCi', the grouse, is called by the Klamath Lakes tmfi'. 



REFLECTIONS OF EVERY-DAY LIFE 



Monologues in the Klamath Lake Dlaxect by Johnson, Chief op the Modocs 



K4-i misb nu 6-it nil tidsa'wa ntd-ish, sliliutuk ma'makla pA-uk shlink 



Not you I to let I like (my) bow, for shooting ducks to oat killing 



liave (thboi) 



ndekti'shtka. Tidsa'wa kA-i mish iiya, tu g^nuapka viyaninank nt^-ish 



witli arrows. I like noi to yoa to give over I will go taking along bow and 



(it), there arrows 



3 g^-u, hishlAtsanuapka. Y6-ishi ! tatdla ka'gi, k4-i shlaa tatdkni yn']x ; 



my, (and) will amuae mywelf Are lost I right they are not I found where they went 



by shooting. (ahead) not, (theni) down; 



y6-ishin, ma'ns k4-ika. tJnds mbiisant pen kdyakuapk. 



tbey are lost, for a long Itjearched. Some- to-morrow again I will lookout (for 



time time them). 



Shikutcliipk tchikA kgmutsatk ; undse'ks s^wanuapk pdtki giiiga 



Walks on stick an old decrepit (man); sometime I will give (him) to eat 



6 mdhiess; yuyjilks tsi ptl-uk hun tche'k tidsh ki'-uapk. Ki'shtchipk liuk 



trout; being poor thiia through of it then at ease he will feel. Comes to nui this 



eating 



snewedsh; oni'sh kiam slitiwant i; tu'm niVsh shewantamnudpka sdwalktko 



woman; to her fish you may give ; plenty m me she will continue to give having received 



presents. 



Kdmp'kuk k^liak piish tia'ma, Undse't kdtchkal pa-udpk gd-utala stefnash. 



Tlie indigent without food is hungry. By and by tobacco I will chew to my heart's coutent. 



