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is not the case. Our instructor is one of the elders of our clan and his pupils are all our own near cousins; any other that may attend are relations by marriage; there is not an outsider among them. But the fact is that our elder is too busy to give regular lessons; for, besides teaching us, he has to go to the yamên every day. It is only because we entreat him day and night


 * sefu
 * teacher (師傅 shih fu)


 * sembio
 * to say, call, with interrogative o


 * waka
 * no


 * kai
 * final particle.


 * mini
 * my


 * emu
 * one


 * mukūn
 * clan


 * i
 * genitive affix


 * ahūn
 * elder


 * tacibure
 * Fut. Part. (5) of tacibumbi to teach


 * ele
 * whoever


 * urse
 * plural affix


 * gemu
 * all


 * meni
 * our


 * emu
 * one


 * uksun
 * relationship


 * i
 * genitive affix


 * juse
 * pl. of jui son


 * deote
 * pl. of deo younger brother


 * jai
 * secondly


 * niyaman
 * blood relation


 * hūncihin
 * relation by marriage


 * umai
 * not at all


 * gūwa
 * other


 * niyalma
 * man


 * akū
 * not is


 * adarame
 * how


 * seci
 * Cond. (6) of sembi to say


 * mini
 * my


 * ahūn
 * elder


 * inenggidari
 * daily


 * yamulambi
 * to go to the yamên


 * jabdurakū
 * Fut. (5) of jabdumbi to have leisure, with akū not


 * ineku
 * the same


 * be
 * accusative affix


 * erde
 * morning


 * yamji
 * evening


 * nandame
 * Inf. (3) of nandambi to request


 * genere
 * Fut. (5) of genembi to go


 * jakade
 * conj. because


 * arga
 * trick, expedient