The American Missionary. Volume 43, No. 06, June, 1889. Various
by different authorities: Edgeucation, fraze, teadgeous, roughf, icecikles, natcheural, quallyfide, muskeline, femeline and nutur gender.
Definitions: "A word is a sound that consists from the loungs." "A participle is a form of a verb partaking of the nature of an adjective or a noun and expressing action or human being as flying and sleep."
A sentence reported in class of small boys: "By the time your brother get home, you'll be done et." (Translation, You'll be through eating.)
An example of a sentence containing an infinitive used as subject: "To be in the way is bad habits."
At a meeting held at Hampton last "Indian Emancipation Day," one of the Indian boys in his speech said:
"Whenever we do anything white man don't like, he call us 'Injun,' whenever we do anything Injun don't like, he call us 'white man.'" He also expressed his conviction that "Injun boy great deal smarter than white boy, 'cause folks expect that Injun will learn as much in three years as white boy does in nine or ten years."
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