reply nen, or nen na, for 'mine'; kel, or kel na, 'it is thine'; and negum or negum na, 'it is his.' The possessive compound nouns and pronouns, Nominatives of address, in every day use, drop their termination tin; and we find nootc, my father, instead of nootcun, though 'your father' and 'their father' take the full termination kootcowow, and ootcool; the same remark applies to n'ketc, my mother; n'kweje my sister, and uken, my brother; the Vocative case is also abbreviated in these family terms, so that we find noo ! O my father. Compound of Noun and Possessive Pronoun Declined. Singular. Nom. nootc, my father. Dat. nootcuk, with, in, by, etc., my father. Ace. nootcool, my father. [Obj.] Voc. {ah) noo, O my father. Abs. nootcok my absent or dead father. Neg. mogwa nootcenook, not my father. Term, nootcu, my father, [at end of sentence.] Elegdwil, a King, Combined with Pronouns. Nom. Sing. Present Positive, ist Per. 'ntlegam, my present king. 2nd Per. uktelegam, your king, 3rd Per. utelegamel, his king. Nom. Plu. Present, Posessive. ist [Inc.] 'nlelegamenen, our king, [thine and mine.] ist [exc] uktelegatnenoo, our king, [his and mine.] 2nd uktelegamoow. your king. 3rd ootelegamuol, their king. The word becomes Elagwidak, a former king, and is inflected to express futurity, negation, etc., through all the forms. The Verb. In Micmac, as in all languages to a greater or less degree, the verb is the word, first last and always; it seems almost impossible to deal