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Indian Lives and Anecdotes ca. 1886 - 1941 part 2 (ms158_b3f003_002.07.pdf)
She make her bark smooth sandpaper. Ours young tree, always smoove. She sewed it her canoe chair bottom stuff; me sewed it ours spruce t'reed. She nail it her canoe copper nails; when wood wet, nails dry; den go dis way {working} all time. Me nail it ours wooden nails; when wood wet nails wet, then all time stiff. When seen it Sebattis Dana, speaks so "You beat; dollar is yours."
Thirty five dollars he give it John Tabor Davis Sebattis that canoe. All me ask ours is twenty eight!"
Sebattis Dana's wife was called Mahli hahn squees = Miss Mary Ann.
Description: Pages from Fannie Hardy Eckstorm's notebook 10 (X)
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Language: English
Date: ca. 1886 - 1941
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