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piskeamoogeak. it is growing dark; piskéak, it is dark.

piskéamoogwasz‘k, it is dull weather.

piskéimaodegd, I am waiting for darkness.

piskiik, the farther shore is obscure, hence it is wide.

piskz'skunmz, the great toe; pix/é- oogwadase, I thrust in my feet, toes.

piskwadimk, a wide entrance.

piskwadoo,1bring it in; pisk- wadase, I am brought in.

piskwfie, I enter, come in; pix/k-

wd! Imperative, Come in! enter!

pis/cwdbi, I run into the house; piskwedesin.

pzskwe, a bladder; wiskwe, a bladder blown full of air.

piskwegimk, I invite him, in- duce him, fetch him in.

piskweoonukwifi, I spring it suddenly.

pissz'nskase, I thrust my hand into the doorway.

piskwitk, water flows in.

piskwobege, I creep in on hands and knees.

piskwukogwiz, I drift in.

piskwodigmz, (sooskwodégun), a door.

pisooea'adum, I consider it a failure.

pisoowoo, unsuccessfully.

pistamaon, something eaten as a relish, as butter or molasses on bread.

pilesin, I jump into a pit; pile:- kak, I kick him into a hole; pélesin.

szlkawon, an upper garment.

pit/kumadzm, I load it up,

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ilkumase, I am filled up.

itkusuwodum, I load a gun; pitkusaod.

it/éusogun, a powder-horn. itkwea'dgun, a chopping-block, anvil.

itkwedagunogum, the lower beam of a dead-fall trap. upon which the animal is killed by the siktogunogum, or drop- stick.

pitkwcalasoodumdkun, an altar, a kneeling-place.

pit/cwdooskundkun, a kneading-

trough, bake-board. pitoageak, the river runs from afar. extends far inland. plaksigun, a shaving of leather; elkusowa, I shave leather.

1) aksiguné, s lit-leather.

flamoa, (pa amoo), a salmon; plamooizgd, 1 fish for salmon.

plamod—zpkool, s p e a r - mint, salmon food.

‘plégun, an opening in a beaver- dam.

Plégun, Cape Split, N. S., the opening in the beaver»dam; here, according to tradition, Glooscap opened the beaver- dam, and drained off th e waters that had previously flooded the Annapolis Valley. In this the Micmacs proved themselves careful students of Geology, for an old beach is to be seen which extended along the base of the monu- tains before the valley emerg- ed;though it is not probable that any Micmacs were here at that ancient time. J. S. C.

plekteak, a handspike for break~

1 ing open a beaver-dam. '