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dkusih ay-ay dwak dkutah. kltahtawd kd-wdpamdtsik mlnah kutakah 
dh-pdpahtdyit. pdtih dyukunih pisiwah. 
“ hd dy, ni^mis, dyakuw dkwah ka-waydsimdnaw ! nihtdwdhtamwak 
dkutowahk, — hdh ! ” dtah dh-pimuhidyit, hd d dy, pisiw ! " 
“ tdndhkih ! 
" pihkuhindn ! ahpdh itsi ka-mkimitindn, dkd dh-kdh-nihtinisuydhk ! ” 
“ yaho ! nainuya nnihtd-Witsdkumi. %h wdpahtah nitsihtsiyah : nama 
kdkway naskasiyak, ” itwdyiwa. 
“a d dy, misawd tsd tdpwd ka-klh-mkimitdhk, dh-mdydtisiyan, dh- 
pitikuhkwdyin, dkwah dh-mdmdhkisitdyin, dkw d-nd-napakdskituydyin f ” 
ay-dtawdyimdiD. dkusi nakatikuk. d, kaskdyihtamwak, d-ndhtd-nih- 
takimtsik. piyisk kinwdsk dkutah ay dwak. kltahtawd kd-wdpamdtsik mlna 
dh-pdpahtdyit. 
“ nislmis, dywakw dkwah nika-waydsimdw. idh-wawlivinawisiw ^ 
dwaku, ” itdw. 
“ aha' . ” 
kisiwdk d-pimipayiyit dtah, “ hd dy ! ” 
itdpiyiwa. 
“ kihkwahdkds, kinihtd-klhtsdkuMn. pihkuhindn. dh-kustamdhk dkd 
dh-kih-pihkuhisuydhk. ahpdh itsi, pihkuhiydhkuh, ka-wikimitindn, ” itdw. 
“ yahd, kiwdh-waydsimindwdw ! ” itwdyiwa. 
** namuya ! tdpwd ka-vfikimitmdn, ” itdw. 
“ aha' ! ” 
haw, pd-kihtsdkusiyiwa. 
dy-utihtikutsik, “ 7iiya nlkdn ! " itwdw aw dmisimdw. 
“ namuya ! awa pitah kislm. " 
“ dha ' . ” 
dkwah naydmdw dkwah. 
“ hdw, dkd wiyah mustsih sdmiskaw nitakuhp. miluni nikihtsdyimdw 
nitakuhp, " itdw dh dskinlkiskwdwa. 
mituni wdwdklw aw dskinlkiskwdw, dh-nlhtsatsiwdhtahikut. piyis 
pihkuhdw. pitah dmis Isi tah-tihtiplw awa kihkwahdkds, dhd utakuhpah dh- 
kd^simdt, dh iskwdwa d-sdmiskawdyit. 
dsay dkusi itdyihtam nah dmisi^naw : nihtinitsih, nika-ylpdtsihimdwa 
utakuhpah, kd-kistdyimut ! " itdyimdw. 
dkwah pdy-dmatsiwdyiwa mlna. 
dy-utihiikut, “ hdw, mitunih wdwdkapih. nitakuhp nikihtsdyimdw, ” 
itwdyiwa. 
dkwah naydmik. 
dkwah dh-nihtsatsiwdydhtawiyit, pdydhtik dh-pimuhtdyit, “ kisiskdhtd, 
klhkwahdkis I nikaskdyihtdn, dh-ndhtd-sdmiskamdn ntaskiy, " itwdw aw 
Iskwdw. 
^ Obscure; perhaps a nonce-formation. If really derived from mwah : “his wife'* 
{nlwah : “my wife," etc.), perhaps read mh-uwtmnavnsiw ; for the general rule in Central 
Algonquian is that secondary derivatives of dependent nouns are made from the form with 
third person possessor; th<^ in nlr, Id-, m- prefix e.g. vnstdwah : “his brother-in-law": 
uxmstawiw ; “he has (as) a brother-in-law"; and those in no-, kd-, 6- prefix uw-, e.g. 
ohtdwiya : “his father": uwdktdwiyiw : “he has (as) a father." But the Sweet Grass 
dialect seems to confuse this initial accretion with reduplication, e.g. uyohtdiviyiw : “he 
has (as) a father," cf. below. 
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