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names as the child received from the curate in baptism. Abia was naked, 
the little Christian Jonathan Paulus seems to be better dressed. 
No. 251. 
Lukas. 
In this petting song, the world is seen entirely through the child’s eyes. 
mak'ua'ko'na' inuin'a't 1 Listen, you there, that there, only people! 
a Yyas'arsiwasik-i”n’a 2 A very astonishing person is she over 
there, 
Elumo:tap Ale‘kip Tabetap 3 The ones which are underneath Elu- 
atanetut moota Aleeke Tabitha 
ukua sorsuase'n-ukua 4 These great, queer inexplicable beings. 
nalerqius'uät at She is the object of their attention. 
(Thou art) for my happiness 
What my eyes seek, 
What they all direct their course by. 
ta'ma'tog qujanan:it-e-niog 9 Then after all, one that is not loved? 
г qujaneqonaliwaqa:°q 
г qujaneqonaliwaqa:°q 
pi’ Ltwarsima 
nalerqius uma 
D ~I © On 
nalima'rnaq 
10—11 Yes, yes she will gladly be thanked! 
nalima‘rna‘rnerput 12 What we all direct our course by — 
qåL:erqiaL:ak'o 13 As soon as I come near her 
ta'rutile 14 It grows dark. 
i tar-tarulilit-arta:q 15 Oh dear, dark, it grows dark! darkness 
tæru ta: 16 The way of scattering the dark; 
ia rta 17 Let us move à little! 
NOTES. — 1. explained as “people who do nothing other than exist as 
people”: i.e. common things for which the child may have no peculiar interest. 
— 2. Cf. WGr. ia: an interjection which expresses 1) surprise or emotion, 
2) hello, its beginning. The meaning of the suffixes is not quite clear. -starsiwag 
= sarsiwaq? ‘large, glorious, astoundingly great.’ — 3. Those who carry the 
child, sometimes one, sometimes another. — 5. Literally ‘a mark to steer by’ 
(usually out at sea). — 6. Here and in the following the mother herself speaks. 
6—7. -sima and -suma note the harmony in the vowels. Perhaps both -si (se) 
and -su are abbreviations of -suseq, only the syllables with vocal harmony 
being retained. I consider -ma to be the first person possessive ending in 
the relative case. — 8. The expression contains a similar shade of meaning 
as to our “the apple of my eye”, applied to a special pet. — 9. Meant in 
jest or ironically; in the next line the presumption is recalled. — 14—16. 
The words are used rather freely suiting the moods of a child. “The dark” 
is the shade which appears when someone steps in front of the lamp. 
