Story in CJ

[David Robertson]

"Kopa Kolwatir Mois Tlikamnaskat iaka kolan kanawi Katolik liplit klaska
500.000 kanawi kanamokst.  Pi iaka wawa: Klunas kansih lili iht man iskom
klaska lima 'shik hans' kanawi, pi iaka kopit.  Pus iaka aiak, pi iaka shik
hanc 20 kopa iht minit, 1200 kopa iht awr, 12,000 iht son, klunas wik saia
iht mun pi sitkom, pi iaka kopit shik hanc kanawi."

("At Coldwater, BC, Moise Tlikamnaskat heard that the total number of
Catholic priests is 500,000 all together.  And he said, Who knows how long
it would take one man to shake hands with all of them, until he was done.
If he was quick, and shook hands with 20 in a minute, 1200 in an hour,
12,000 in a day, it might be almost a month and a half till he was done
shaking hands with all of them.")

This is in Kamloops Wawa #129 (June 1895), page 87.  Good practice in a
number of structures that are very common in KW Chinook...for example,
VERB1 pi VERB2 = 'doing VERB1 until you do VERB2'.

--Dave R.

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