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have happy thoughts, wegz'd, I am angry; wegiadase, immediate revenge; ankédase, I reflect; wonmajfie, I suffer; umzmajadase, I feel grieved, etc.

Dr. Rand considers those Quisitive Verbs which are formed by an inflection of the substantive to express the idea that it is sought for; for example pébmzdkundgiz, Iseek to procure bread; li’amwfigd, I hunt moose-meat, saoleéwdgd, I work for money. The termination égdktumi implies going on a begging expedition for bread, meat or money, according to the stern used.

Verbs take forms to express cause. manner and instrument, in addition to the simple action. The substantive unis/(720d, a point, he- comes a simple transitive verb kmiskwaa’oo, I point it, it also takes forms to indicate the manner of pointing a thing—keniskoosum, I whittle it to a point, kmz’skwaigiioo, I grind or file it to a point, Ieem'skwtigoodém, I hammer it to a point, kmiskwdgesum, I clip it to a point, kem’s/caosziktém, I dress a stone to a point, kem's/zooddm, I hew wood to a point, Azmiskooéestoa, I run (melt) it to a point.

The diminutive form ttélc, jdje, or 55’s, may be attached to verbs as to nouns and adjectives; and all verbs become Frequentative by prefixing the letter ‘6’, so that peméd, I walk, becomes epeméd, I am accustomed to walk. It is therefore safe to say that from one root as many as thirty forms may spring, each to be conjugated indepen- dently through every voice, mood, tense, number and person, animate and inanimate, positive and negative; there are the reciprocal relations to be studied also; and Dr. Rand horrified his teacher by asking him the Micmac for ‘I cook myself,’ and ‘we cook each other.’ He replied after a long pause that though we cannot cook ourselves, and would not cook each other, it is easy to say wislrégwdlse, and wiskégwdllool- téek.

There are five moods besides the participles, named respectively : Indicative, Subjunctive, Imperative, Potential and Infinitive. There are nine tenses in the Indicative Mood, with additional interrogative forms in three of them. There are three numbers, the Singular, Dual and Plural; the Dual being used for a family or family-party as well as for two, but it is rarely used in reference to inanimate objects.