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Here is some more dramatic & colourful use of Lakhota in a modern context by Emil AFRAID-OF-HAWK. <div>It is the first page of his Lakhotaiyapi translation of the above B.I.A. reader, originally written in English by Ann NOLAN CLARK.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(10, 0, 221); "></span></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>As previously, the second English version is certainly not intended to "improve" Nolan Clark, (which would be difficult to better, imho, as a piece of English writing, in any case) but as an aid to comprehension of the precise meaning of E. A-O-H's Lakhota, by attempting to approach it as closely as possible.</div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0A00DD"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0A00DD"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><div style="font-size: 18px; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Thoka Wan Itkokhip Ohitike Kin He (Jan 1944) [Page 5]</font></b></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0A00DD">=================================================================</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#0a00dd" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #0a00dd"> </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0A00DD"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 17px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 17px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF00FF"><b>Iyechinkala inyanke kin nahanh^ci tanyekel inajin </b></font></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 17px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF0000"><b>shni han</b></font></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 17px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF00FF"><b> kaslohanye kin echunhan Louie Heh^logeca kah^'ol hiyuic'iye.</b></font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(10, 0, 221); min-height: 14px; "><b><br></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">Nolan Clark text:</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">"Louie Hollow Horn was out of the car before it had slid to a halting stop."</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#7E003F"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">Another translation :</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">"</font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#fd0000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #fd0000">Before</font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"> the car had properly come to a halt, and while it was still skidding/in a slide, Louie Hollow Horn launched himself out (of it)."</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(253, 0, 0); min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">[NOTES:] </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">I think "shni haN" is prob. here a variant of "<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF0000">shni haNni</font>" [=</font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#fd0000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #fd0000">before</font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">]. [</font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#fd0000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #fd0000">See B-Md. under "haNni", p.78</font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">]</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(10, 0, 221); min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0A00DD"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 17px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 17px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF00FF"><b>Iyechinkala inyanke huinat'age thepthepahe kin nahanh^ci nakiskis, najojo, k'oh^k'oh^ hingle kin </b></font></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 17px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF0000"><b>ichahiya</b></font></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 17px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF00FF"><b> hiyuic'iye.</b></font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(10, 0, 221); min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0A00DD">Nolan Clark :</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0A00DD"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">"He was out of the car before its worn-out brakes had finished their protesting groans.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">Another translation :</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">"He hurled himself (from the vehicle) </font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF0000">amidst</font></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"> (lit. : </font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF0000">intermingled with</font></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">) (a sudden cacophony of) creaking, wheezing & rattling from the car's clapped-out brakes."</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">OR, maybe :</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">"The car's clapped-out brakes were still creaking, wheezing & rattling, as he executed his leap (from the vehicle)."</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(10, 0, 221); min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(10, 0, 221); min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 17px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 17px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF00FF"><b>Atkuku kin huinat'age kin </b></font></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 17px; "><i><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">otokhetutan'inshniyan</font></b></i></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 17px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF00FF"><b> </b></font></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 17px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF0000"><b>kunsyakel</b></font></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 17px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF00FF"><b> namahehe iyeya yanke he <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">shunkthahu</font></b></font></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 17px; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"> wash'aka k'inkhiyapi</font></b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 17px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF00FF"><b> iyechelya hugmiyanyan</b></font></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 17px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF00FF"><b> un kah^apapi kin</b></font></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 17px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF00FF"><b> yutiktitan he.</b></font></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#0a00dd" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #0a00dd"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0A00DD">Nolan Clark : </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0A00DD"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">"His father stamped with doubtful but determined tread on the brake pedal and pulled on the wheel as if he were reining a stubborn horse."</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0A00DD"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0A00DD"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0A00DD">Another translation :</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">"His father sat there pumping the brake-(pedal) in & out,</font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </font><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF0000">pretending/simulating/feigning</font></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </font></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><i>total confusion/bewilderment</i></font></b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">, and (he) kept pulling on </font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">the steering-wheel</font></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">, as if it were (the reins) of </font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">a stiff-necked pack-horse</font></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">."</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">[NOTES:] </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">There are some really tricky vocabulary items there, eh? I found this sentence very troublesome, and I don't think I 've got the answers either! </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">E.g. '</font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#fd0000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #fd0000">kunsyakel</font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">' : I'm not sure exactly <b><i>why</i></b> the father would be 'pretending/simulating' anything, at this point?! </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Unless 'kunsyakel' here has a weakened sense, meaning not much more than : "apparently/seemingly/to outward appearances"? </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">But of course for that idea we have s'elecheca/s'ele/s'e/sekse.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">I translate "</font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><i>otokhetutan'inshniyan</i></font></b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">" as : "bewilderment/confusion/being unaware what is happening (going on)", on the basis of context only. Otherwise I'm unsure. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">I note that the expression also occurs, probably as a Stative Verb meaning "to be doubtful/unclear", on page 17 (3rd. Paragraph, line 24).</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">"Doubtful but determined" in Nolan Clark seems a rather cute oxymoron, doesn't it! I'm not sure what it means though.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">However, it seems evident that "</font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">hugmiyanyan un kah^api</font></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#fd0000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #fd0000"> </font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">kin", means, as a unit : "</font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">steering wheel</font></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">" here. "the </font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">wheel (hugmiyanyan) by-means-of-which (un) they-drive</font></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">". </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">I'm not sure why hugmiyan has been reduplicated though.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(10, 0, 221); min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(10, 0, 221); min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(10, 0, 221); min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 13px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 17px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF00FF"><b>Hokshila kin takuni aphe shni. Iyechinka inyanke kin etanhan hiyuic'iye si kin makha icah^take shni han</b></font></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 17px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF00FF"><b> inyank iyaye</b></font></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#0a00dd" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(10, 0, 221); font-size: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF00FF"><b> s'elecheca.</b></font></span> </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(10, 0, 221); min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0A00DD">Nolan Clark :</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">"The boy did not wait. He was out of the car, running, almost before his feet touched the ground."</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#0a00dd" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #0a00dd"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">Another translation :</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">"The boy waited for nothing : he hurled himself from the car, (and) seemingly, </font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">before</font></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"> his feet even touched the ground, he was off & running."</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(10, 0, 221); min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(10, 0, 221); min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(10, 0, 221); min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 17px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 17px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF00FF"><b>Iyechinka inyanke kin lila nakhata sanp iyaya chankhe un inyanke kin ehash nahoh^pah^pa nablokaskaska s'e he, na tokhecela</b></font></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 17px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF00FF"><b> kitanh^ci iyasni, inchin,</b></font></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 17px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF00FF"><b> </b></font><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF0000"><b>hechun shni kinhan</b></font></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 17px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF00FF"><b> </b></font></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 17px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#996633"><b>ungnaheh^ci<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 17px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#996633"><b> akhe iyopteyapi kte kin</b></font></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 17px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF00FF"><b> wowash'ake chola iyopta okihi kte shni nachece.</b></font></font></span></b></font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0A00DD"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0A00DD">Nolan Clark :</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0A00DD"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">"The over-heated car engine coughed and hiccupped, reluctant to still itself lest it might never have the power to start again."</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0A00DD"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0A00DD">Another translation :</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(10, 0, 221); min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">"The car('s engine) had gotten overheated (lit. being hot had gone over/beyond), and, as a result, the motor, which seemed to be coughing & hiccuping excessively, at last subsided only gradually & with difficulty/grudgingly, </font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#fd0000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #fd0000">since if it hadn't been that way</font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"> (</font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#fd0000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #fd0000">i.e. since, without such reluctance</font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">), it might probably lack the power to (re-)start,</font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#996633"><b> had they<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#996633"><b> wished to start it again right away</b></font></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#fd00ff" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #fd00ff"><b>.</b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">" </font></span></b></font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">[NOTES:] </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">This sentence is extremely difficult, imho! I have puzzled over it often, and still haven't "solved" it to my satisfaction! </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">A boldly imaginative metaphor, this one. The car's engine seems to have become a living thing, endowed with its own volition! I had a car like this one once! ;(</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">The expression "<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF00FF">uN inyaNke</font>" seems to mean "motor/engine" : i.e. "(means) by which it runs/goes".</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(10, 0, 221); min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(10, 0, 221); min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 17px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 17px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF00FF"><b>Iyechinka inyanke kin hothanka na bu na lila nahunhunsya he kin hokshila kin hena iyasni kte aphe shni.</b></font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 17px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 17px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF00FF"><b>Thanchan zizipela<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">kacha</font></b></font></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 17px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF00FF"><b> </b></font></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 17px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF0000"><b>tokhel chinka,</b></font></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 17px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF00FF"><b> oakanyanke hektatanhan aunyan, makhata ipsice na oh^'ankhoya makhablu hihila kin opta inyank iyaye.</b></font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 13px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#0a00dd" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(10, 0, 221); font-size: 13px; "><b> </b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0A00DD"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0A00DD">Nolan Clark :</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0A00DD"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">"The boy had not waited for the noisy motor to die and for the old frame to stop its shivering.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">He climbed over the back seat, jumped to the ground and started sprinting through the thick dust, all with one swing of his thin young body."</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0A00DD"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0A00DD"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(10, 0, 221); ">Another translation :</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">"The lad didn't wait for the car's loud & noisy rocking to grow still (die away). Climbing over the back seat with his slim, supple body, he leapt to earth, and set off at a rapid run through the soft (yielding?) dust."</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">[NOTES:] </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">It seemed to me that "</font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF0000">tokhel chiNka</font></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">" was a phrase descriptive of the boy's slim body : i.e. it was (behaved) "as he wished", in other words immediately 'responsive to his will', (as a youngster's body should be!). Therefore perhaps one might even translate it as : "</font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF0000">fit/athletic/supple/lithe</font></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">"? A guess.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Not sure precisely what that "<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">-kacha</font>" suffix adds to the meaning of "zizipela"? Something like "evidently/manifestly" perhaps? [See <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">B&D</font>, p.29, Sect. 30] </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">"oakaNyaNke hektataNhaN" clearly enough means "back-seat".</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(10, 0, 221); min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(10, 0, 221); min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(10, 0, 221); min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 17px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 17px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF00FF"><b>Lila</b><b> inyank iyayapi <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">owichawashte</font> kin hecha, inchin hupakshecaya hunathipya yankahan chankhe hu glukatin kta khoya un hechun. Iyechinka inyanke lazatanhan chanwophiye na wojuha kho okit'eya, owinja ophah^te na thiyobleca kho, heyubpi kin iyakanl iye, na thunkashitku kin kichi yankapi. Chankhe wakitanh^ci okablaya khuta glicu kin he lila <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">owashte</font>.</b></font></font></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 15px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 15px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF00FF"> </font></font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0A00DD">Nolan Clark :</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0A00DD"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">"It was good to be running, to be stretching his cramped legs. The back of the car had been crowded with boxes and bags, bed-rolls and tent, besides himself and his grandfather. It was good to be out of it, to be free with the wind."</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0A00DD"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0A00DD">Another translation :</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#0a00dd" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #0a00dd"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">"To be off running was a terrific pleasure, for he had been sitting with his legs so doubled-over & cramped that he did so in order to stretch them also. He & his grandfather had been seated in the back of the car, squeezed in among the boxes & bags, the bedrolls, tents, and other packed-up luggage, so that to be at long last getting back down (khuta glichu) (onto the ground) & to have freedom of movement (okablaya) again, was really nice! "</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">[NOTES:] </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Wonder why <b>-wicha-</b> patient-pronoun is infixed with <b>owichawashte</b> in the first instance, yet not with <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><b>owashte</b></span>, in the last?</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(10, 0, 221); min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(10, 0, 221); min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(10, 0, 221); min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 17px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 17px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF00FF"><b>Hokshila kin unzogin <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF0000">shkishkita</font></b></font></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 17px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF00FF"><b> wan theca cha </b></font></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 17px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><b>un kin</b></font><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF00FF"><b> <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#996633">hu'ichinajojoya</font></b></font><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF00FF"><b> inyanke hena lila theca na hena thawa na tokhel hokshila wan ha'unkhiyapi kta iyecheca kin ogna wakhoyaka chankhe hena kiksuye.</b></font></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#0a00dd" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #0a00dd"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0A00DD">Nolan Clark :</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0A00DD"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">"As the boy ran his new corduroy trousers whistled to his running, reminding him that they were new and they were his, clothing him as a boy should be clothed."</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0A00DD"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0A00DD">Another translation :</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#0a00dd" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #0a00dd"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">"As the boy ran, the new </font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#fd0000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #fd0000">corduroy</font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"> pants </font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">which he wore</font></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"> <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#996633"><b>made a whistling sound, as his legs rubbed together</b></font>, and so he became conscious of the fact that they were brand-new, they belonged to him, and that he was clad in the style in which a boy should be dressed."</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">[NOTES:] </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">"<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF0000">shkishkita</font>" can mean "<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF0000">rough-surfaced; not smooth, or level</font>". <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">Boas & Deloria</font> (pp. 28 & 64) give the meaning as "<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF0000">corrugated</font>". </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">"<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF00FF">uNzog^iN</font> <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF0000">shkishkita</font>" might well be "<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF0000">corduroy</font> <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF00FF">jeans/pants</font>". </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"> "<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#996633"><b>huichinajojojya</b></font>" : Splendid adverb! "<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#996633"><b>legs whistling in contact with each other"</b></font> [-ichi-"together/in contact"], I guess. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Pretty acute observation of minute everyday details, eh! </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(10, 0, 221); min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(10, 0, 221); min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 17px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 17px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF00FF"><b>Pte ole hokshila thawanap'in wan theca cha, pte ole kin tokhel nap'inpi s'a kin iyechel thahu kin <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#996633">iyakpehe,</font></b></font></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 17px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF00FF"><b> chankhe <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF0000">izethun</font></b></font></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 17px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF00FF"><b> <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF0000">kin</font> <i>yumnimnipi</i><i> s'e he kin</i></b></font></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 17px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF00FF"><b> nagita lila iyowichakiphi na wicakicilapi kta iyecheca ognayan kage. </b></font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 17px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 17px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF00FF"><b>Lila pte ole hokshila ic'ila wan hecela shni, tkha <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">unsh'unmakeci</font></b></font></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 17px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF00FF"><b> hecha s'elecheca.</b></font></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#0a00dd" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #0a00dd"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">Nolan Clark :</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">"</font><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">The ends of his new cowboy handkerchief, tied cowboy-fashion around his neck, fluttered behind him making a satisfying and a convincing shadow. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">He not only felt like a cowboy, but he looked like one. At least his shadow did.</font><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">"</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#0a00dd" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #0a00dd"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "></span></font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">Another translation :</font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">"The little cowpoke's kerchief had been </font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#996633"><b>wrapped</b></font></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"> around </font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#996633"><b>his</b></font></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"> neck, just like the cowboys habitually wore them, in such a way that the </font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#fd0000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #fd0000">loose ends</font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">, <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><i>which stood out fluttering as it were (s'e)</i></font>, gave rise to/created the appearance of a very pleasing & credible/convincing shadow (behind him). </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">It wasn't only a case of him considering himself to be a genuine cowboy, but <b>as for</b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> that other thing (his shadow??</font></b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">)<b>, even it</b> had the appearance of being one!" (i.e. of being the Genuine Article/the Real McCoy). </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">[NOTES:] </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Another fascinating paragraph, fairly bristling with difficulties! </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Uncannily sensitive & subtle observation on the part of Ann Nolan Clark, also. Must have been a translator's nightmare to "recast" into Lakhota!</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">B&D</font> [pp. 43 & 44 - on Locative-prefix combinations : "i-a; i-o"] list a verb "</font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#996633"><b>iyápehaN</b></font></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">" with the meaning "<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#996633"><b>t</b></font></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#996633"><b>o wrap around; lit. "to wind on against</b></font></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">". </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">The infixed "</font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#996633"><b>-k-</b></font></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">" looks like a Possessive-Dative form of some description.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">C</font>an't find that word "</font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#fd0000" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(253, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; ">izethuN</font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">" anywhere, so I suppose one has to try and work it out from the context, with some more or less "educated guesswork".</font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Luckily also, we have Nolan Clark's original English to at least point us in the right general direction, eh? </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">"-thuN" seems to be that familiar general Verb-formant, often added to roots to form verbs.[See Ingham,"Lakota", 2003, Sect. 4.10.1]</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">I note the existence of reduplicated adverb "</font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#fd0000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #fd0000">zé</font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">zeya/<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF0000">zé</font>zezeya" [<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">B&D</font>, pp.18 & 37] meaning "hanging/dangling/suspended". </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">There are also roots : "<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF0000">ze</font>" meaning : "it is dangling (v., adv.)" at <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">B&D</font>, [p.65 (CV verbs)], and <font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">"</font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#fd0000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #fd0000">za</font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">" meaning "to stand erect (plants, trees)" at <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">B&D</font> [p.31, Sect.32.].</font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">My guess is that it might mean the "</font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#fd0000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #fd0000">loose ends</font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">" of the boy's kerchief, which "</font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#fd0000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #fd0000">dangle/stick out</font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">" from the knot tied at his neck.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">"<i>yumnimnipi s'e</i>" : "<i>twirling/swirling/fluttering, as it were/sort of fluttering</i>"</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">I've interpreted "wicakicilapi" [=they believe in it; perh.<wicala (?)] to mean something like "believable/credible/convincing-->"realistic/authentic". </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">B-Mdict</font>.[s.v., p.372] glosses word : "(v.) to comply; (adj.) positive." I wondered whether it might be a misprint for "wichakicilapi"<kicila, possibly Poss.-Dative form of 'kila'=think,esteem; believe in (?).</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">"</font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">uNsh'uNmakeci</font></b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">" seems very mysterious & idiomatic in meaning, and Buechel-Manhart's somewhat confusing & laborious entry doesn't appear to provide all that much help. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">It occurs to me that maybe it might refer to the lad's shadow : "</font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">as for that other thing</font></b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">", i.e. the boy's appearance as a cowboy was so credibile that </font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">even his shadow</font></b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"> had the look of the "Real Thing", the "Genuine Article", as we say!</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Needless to say, I am well aware that a lot of that is guess-work & supposition! :) Any comments from the pros would be most helpful! </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Kind regards,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Clive.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></body></html>