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word, as it occurs in the sentence. Tliis enables us to study that 

 -dialect with comparative ease, and opens to us the innermost 

 soul-life, the s'ery fabric of Indian thought, by the disclosure of 

 the grammatic elements. To these Indians, the categories of num- 

 ber and tense are not very material, and that of sex is never 

 marked as such ; but it is quite important to them whether the 

 ■object spoken of or the acting subject is visible or invisible, close 

 by, further off, or at a great distance. It matters little to these 

 Indians of what special appearance the subject or object is, but 

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 .sitting, reclining or stretched out, acting on jjurpose or without 

 purpose, and whether those acting were acting singly, in a small 

 bodj', or in a crowd. Whether a story-teller is relating a fact 

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 on? person or from several authorities. Although Doisey's con- 

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