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| The door is wide. |
| Down he fell to the foot of the bluff. |
| Also, I am going to make an awl. |
| I heard you were going on a journey. |
| I wonder whether his wife worked yesterday. |
| This table is bigger, and this one is smaller. |
| "A fine gentleman will come," they would tell those young persons who were fasting, "A fine gentleman will come." |
| Do not give it to us. |
| Then I spear those fish. |
| It is clouding over; maybe it is going to rain. |
| What time is it? |
| Especially when the Ojibwe were making sugar, that was when those Hurons would come over to this side of the water to rob the sugar makers of their sugar. |
| When she had made ready all this, she shaped out the ashes of the fire to make a place in which to bake that bread. |
| I am making this record so that the young people may hear it. |
| The kettle is full. |
| It is time for us (inc.) to leave. |
| We (exc.) sat a while there in the grass, and we heard the birds singing. |
| I want to borrow your hammer; I will bring it back tomorrow. |
| Whatever the visitor might want to see will be there. |
| He told her, "Along the river he went from here." |
| That is as much as I have to say. |
| And you, where is your hat? |
| I boarded the train, that is, after he had bought the ticket which I was to use when I travelled on the train. |
| I do not cut down anything at all, |
| This bird sings. |
| They said to him, "Stay inside there [a sweat lodge] as long as you can endure." |
| Those Hurons when they fought, it was there that they buried the Hurons in grave mounds. |
| Do not give it to him, of all people. |
| He came up from under water right in the midst of those ducks. |
| The Indians of old had no clocks or watches. |
| Then that big partridge was angry. |
| Do (ye) give him his hat! |
| I found everything in good shape at my house. |
| At one time, when I was a young boy, there came that white American who went about looking for those who wanted to attend school. |
| As for me, I was taken to the place where clothes were made. |
| The meat smells good. |
| That woman is sweeping out that house. |
| We (inc.) shall have to refrain from smoking. |
| Then she answered me, "Yes I'm just now washing it". |
| Why did you go off somewhere? |
| He was hungry. |
| She has put flour in the wooden bowl and all the things that she mixes with it. |
| They have run away. |
| Don't ever kill ants. |
| "Did you do the way I taught you?" |
| Whenever it rained we (exc.) went home. |
| This Sacred Story is about him long ago who was called Nenabush. |
| The other one took off her skirt; out ran that Nenabush on all fours and carried off those skirts as he fled. |
| Tell me about it later on. |
| Sometimes I manage to spear two of them before they all get away. |
| Once a man was travelling in the North. |
| They too will put on Indian costumes. |
| Her kettle is leaking too. |
| She put some water in the kettle. |
| Bring the horse. |
| He behaves well |
| Take care of him through the winter. |
| I will be gone one hour. |
| My mother came to where I was sleeping to see whether I was asleep. |
| I love that woman. |
| Gradually I came to understand that work. |
| Do not bring my paddle. |
| She picked yellow ones. |
| That was why they would attack the Hurons and kill many of them, seeing how troublesome they were, going about robbbing people of sugar here on this side of the water. |
| I wonder whether he would have helped me. |
| Have Thou pity on us now Who art Lord of us all. |
| I shall take my tobacco with me. |
| "Rabbit, why have you brown feet?" |
| The birds are singing. |
| Only one they brought back with them. |
| Then the young man told him that he had seen the vision of a mirror, for that was what he called it. |
| I found only some few of them. |
| When night came we heard the Thunders, and there was a great thunderstorm. |
| The river is all frozen over. |
| I have had good luck; I have caught (killed) lots of fish. |
| I stamped out the fire. |
| He saw many ducks. |
| The rock is smooth. |
| Are you hankering for tobacco to smoke? |
| But he could not pull it [a tree] loose at all, so he climbed down again. |
| I am going to have the things repaired. |
| I have a ripe apple. |
| And then, when they had chopped a big enough opening, that Nenabush came running out on all fours. |
| This man has told a lie. |
| He shot three times. |
| Maybe that old woman will feed us. |
| He always stayed in the hut, and he painted his cheeks with charcoal. |
| Where is he going? |
| "Why have you two ears?" |
| My mother was badly frightenend. |
| Do not ever feed the horse. |
| Bring one of them. |
| Then she wrapped me in something else. |
| Don't (you pl.) open the door! |
| Then one morning there came an order. |
| That man is always in want. |
| He is here today. |
| Slowly he adjusted himself as he lay and picked up his bow. |
| In three days that woman will be back. |
| Today truly there are grave mounds there on High Bank Walpole Island where the Hurons are buried who fought long ago. |