THE LORD'S PRAYER. 1 39 



THE LORD'S PRAYER. 

 I. 



N41am p'tishap, kat p'lai tclila: Nanvxk na'd hu'nk mi sh(^sliasli katak 



Our father, wlii.li on high livi-a: All of iis thy name truly 



sliti'nta. Ml lu'ishkaiiksli gii'ta iia'lsli. • 1 hu'nk vu'iiliuapk genta kailatat, 



worbhip. Thy miml come U> iih. Thou wiTt acbievo ou thia earth, 



wakaktak p'laftalkni gi. Sh^wan i m'll.sh ge'n waitasb iiAlam pala-asli 3 



eijually aa (tliou) on hi^li cl.ist. Give thou ua this (lay our breaii 



nauuk waitaslitat. Hii ualsli tua k6-idslii giiitanuapk, kci-i hun, p'laftalkni, 



©very on day. If on us any- wicked should stick ou, not it, thou ou high. 



« thing 



liu'shkank i ! hiimaslitak na'd ka-i Im'shkankuapk, ha kani n41sh kii-i 



mind thoul Just as we not would mind it, if somebody us wrong 



gi'uapk. Ka-i n41sh i tua shut^tki kii-idsha, i Inuhuashkpak hak niilsh 6 



should do. Not to us thou any- let do wicked, (hut) keep away only from na 



thing tliou 



tuA ku-idsha. Hiimasht giug mi n(i-ulaks, nki'Uitk tchi'sh, ktchalshka.sh 



any- wicked. For thine (is) the rule. force also, glory 



thing 



tchlsh tchushniak. Humashtak an hun gitk gi ! 



also forever. Thus I it to be say ! 



II. 



NAlam t'shi'shap, p'lai tchia: Mi sh^shash ndnuk stfnta; mi k6%pash 9 



Our father, on high (who) Thy name all revere; thy uiiiul 



livest: 



gAltchui nanuka'nash na'l. Grit4 tchi'sh kaila humashtAk gi, wakaktoksli 



come to every one (of) ns. Here too on earth in the same be .just as 



manner done, 



])'lal ki. Nalash gen waitash shapgle shewan i. K4-i n^lash k6-i shiVtii, 



on high is To us thia day bread give thou. Not us wicked render 



done. ' thou 



In'imasht nalam maklaks^shitko stfnta. I huashgi n41amtant k6-id.'5lui 1'2 



iqu.llly as our nipn-kiudred (we) love. Thou keep oB' from our bad 



stefnashtat ko/pash ; tfdsh nalam stefnash sliiita. Mi tala litchlftchli, mi 



(from) heart thoughts; good our heart make thi>u. Thine .llone (is the) power, liiy 



stefnash litchlftchli tchussak, mii'ni lakiam stefnash. Humasht toks tfdsh. 



heart strong (is) perpetually, great of the Lord the heart. Thus (it will well. 



be) 



NOTES. 



These versions of the Lord's Prayer are good instances of what can be attained, 

 without using- too many circumlocutions, in rendering religious, moral and other 

 abstract ideas in a language deficient in many of them. 



For reign and kingdom no words exist, and they had to be rendered by hu'sh- 

 Icanksh, or in Modoc kop-'pash, "mind", ne-ulaks, "rule, law"; sin and I'orgive \v(-rc 



