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CHIPPEWA MONOLOGUES

Mebbe he was only fool for fun! Hah?
Ho! Long-Blade only fool for fun! Ho!

Mebbe so! . . . Mebbeso! . . .

Mebbe hees tongue talk-um
Little bit crooked! Ho?

Mebbe so! . . . Mebbe so! . . .

Mebbe he got-um forks in tongue,
Wit' little poison-gland! Ugh!
Fenzhun t'ink—
He lie! . . .

Look on me! . . .
Look on me! . . .
Look on me! . . .

Talk-um straight today!
No got-um double-snake-tongue! . . .

I have said it!

(Ho!
How! How!
Ho! Ho! Hol)