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that he feels obliged to find time to play the tutor. Were the case otherwise, you desire to study Manchu is a thing commandable in itself, and as for the trouble of speaking in your behalf, I should not have thought it any trouble at all.

IX. . That gentleman is our old neighbour, you know; the lad we have seen grow up here.


 * akū
 * not, arga akū he cannot help it


 * šolo
 * leisure


 * jalgiyanjafi
 * Past Ger. (8) of jalgiyanjambi to supply


 * membe
 * acc. of be we


 * tacibumbi
 * to teach


 * waka
 * not


 * oci
 * if


 * age
 * elder brother, sir


 * bithe
 * book


 * hūlame
 * Inf. (3) of hūlambi to read


 * geneki
 * Subj. Pres. (7) of genembi to go


 * sehengge
 * Verbal Noun (21) of sembi to say


 * sain
 * good


 * baita
 * thing


 * dabala
 * only


 * sini
 * gen. of si thou


 * funde
 * postpos. for


 * majige
 * little


 * gisureci
 * Cond. (6) of gisurembi to speak


 * minde
 * dat. of bi I


 * geli
 * then


 * ai
 * what


 * wajiha
 * Pret. (4) of wajimbi to end, finish


 * ni
 * interrogative particle.


 * tere
 * that


 * age
 * elder brother


 * serengge
 * Verbal Noun (21) of sembi to say


 * musei
 * our, with genitive affix i


 * fe
 * old


 * adaki
 * neighbour


 * kai
 * is


 * mutuha
 * Pret. (4) of mutumbi to grow