This newspaper isn't going to pay for itself!

[David Robertson]

--to paraphrase my dad, or Hank Hill of the TV show--

Here's Father Le Jeune's version of it:

"Kah msaika tomtom nsaika tlap chikmin pus mamuk ukuk pipa, ukuk chikmin
wik kata pus iaka fol dawn kopa sahali ilihi kakwa sno"!

"Where do you folks think we find the money to make this newspaper,
there's no way the money is going to fall from Heaven like snow"...

In Duane Pasco-style literal translation, here's how the Chinuk Wawa line
works:  "Where y'all think we find money for make this newspaper, this
money no how for it fall down from above land like snow".

This is part of a long harangue Le Jeune wrote in Kamloops Wawa #128 (May
1895), pages 69-70, explaining to a complaining reader the mechanics &
economics of publishing a handwritten newspaper for Indians versus a
typeset one for white people.

--Dave R

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