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their property while it is still theirs, and yet 
they cannot treat it as if their tenure were per- 
manent. Speculators and lawyers move among 
them, watching for the misguided. The only 
thing which they definitely know is that they 
must go, and that when they go there is no more 
returning home for them. No matter how long 
they have cherished their homes with love and 
pride, no matter how carefully they have pruned 
that tree, or how tenderly reared this plant; no 
matter what the scenes that the home parlor 
brings to mind, they must go. Of course many 
of them are heedless of all this, but to many 
others it will be.almost a second Acadia. The 
appraisers are bound by law to allow damages 
for their discomfiture, but some of the adjust- 
ments must be very delicate. What shall be paid 
to the old man .who for four score years has 
grown to fit his mountains, and for whom the 
sun can only set behind High Point? What 
shall be paid to the old woman who is bidding 
her family good-night, when she peers out into 
the moonlight at the marble slabs standing in 
the tangle of wild rose and sumach? 


° . 
Indian Words in Common Use. 
: TEMPORARY WORK IN THE GORGE. 
AS we speak or read the English commonly The dam and the two immense pipes were constructed for the purpose of conveying all the water in the 
used to-day in the. United States, few of us orack: myer anc beyond the site of the great Ashokan dam, so that the builders can work without hindrance 
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realize how many words have been contributed 
to it by the tongues of those people whom 
we have displaced. Some of the most familiar 
words in our common speech are of Indian 
origin, though these are not always used with 
quite the same meaning that they had in 
aboriginal form. As is quite natural, these 
most familiar to us, take their names from In- which means glutton, and so the term was ap- 
dian dialects. One of these is the carcajou or plied to the animal. 
wolverine. This comes to us through the Cana By a certain similarity of sound the term “car- 
dian’ French from the Montagnai Indian term  cajou” has been mistaken for “kinkajou,’ a small 
“karkajoo.”’ Different forms of this name ap prehensile tailed animal of South America re- 
words are very largely substantives—the names P¢3? in other Algonquin dialects as the Chip- lated to the raccoon. Thus Charlevoix describes 
of things.” Sometimes these substantives have. Pewa, the Cree and others, none of which so one of the enemies of the deer as the “carcajou 
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taken on verbal meanings or have become adjec- early resemble the term now in common use or quincajou, a kind of cat with a tail so long 
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tives with altered meaning. Thus the word 
hickory is used as a synonym for toughness or : : ; : : 
elasticity. The ruddy duck is called the “hickory which is the result of an old mistake. The of the north as is: the carcajou on account otf 
as does the Montagnai word already quoted. that it twists it several times around: his body.” 
A common name for this animal is “glutton,” No animal is so much detested by the trappers 
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head” for no other reason than because it is so Finnish name of the animal is “fizl-frass,’’ which the ingenuity which he displays in avoiding traps 
hard to kill. General Andrew Jackson was nick- ; S28 i : ; 
named “Old Hickory” because he was stubborn the same sound as the German word “vielfrass, It is natural enough, therefore, that the Cana- 
means “dweller among rocks.’ This has almost and in rendering futile the work of the trapper. 
and unyielding. There is a hickory elm, a hickory : 
oak and a hickory pine. 
Since Indian names are apt to be long, made 
up of many syllables which the Anglo-Saxon 
finds it difficult to pronounce, our words which 
have come from the Indian languages often vary 
widely from their original form. Often, too. 
these words come to us through the French of 
Canada and are so changed in form and sound 
as to be thought by most of us to be French 
words. Thus, the word Carreou is often given 
as coming from a French term carre-bauf, 
which would mean a square or squared ox—a 
descriptive term applying well enough to the 
caribou, which is not graceful in form, but is 
in fact rather squarely built. As a matter of 
fact, ‘however, the word caribou seems to be 
from an Algonquian term, which for the Mic- 
mac is given as kalrbu. 
The Quinnipiac form is maccarib. These 
.words, according to the late Albert S. Gatschet, 
mean pawer or scratcher, the reference being 
to the animal’s habit of pawing away the snow 
with its forefeet to uncover the vegetation be- 
neath, on. which it feeds. Incidentally the name 
is given to certain tribes of Indians which de- 
rive their food largely from hunting the caribou 



Animal Names. “ROBERT BRUCE” FISHING AT THE DUGWAY. 
— ’ A , This hill is composed of loose gravel and soil. The creek, when high, undermines it, and the road is often 
Some of the native animals, whose names are washed out. The stream is of similar character as far down as Camp Don’t Hurry, some, two miles below. 

