Rocking Away, Telling Each Other Stories

Start Time	Peskotomuhkati-Wolastoqey	English
00:01	Natsakiyannuk yukk ihik	We went to see these people
00:03	etoli-posonutekhoticik,	who were making baskets,
00:06	kosona nutatkuhkahtihit.	or telling stories.
00:07	Iya.	Yes.
00:09	Nit etoli-kakawi-nonom	Then I really learned how you
00:11	eli wen kisi-skicinuwatuwet.	could talk Passamaquoddy.
00:13	Mm-hmm.	Mm-hmm.
00:14	Nmamam ma-te woli-skinuwatuwew.	My mother didn't speak Passamaquoddy very well.
00:17	Tepot anqoc yut sakhi-nutessu	So sometimes someone
00:22	wen keq eliwihtasik	would come out with a word
00:25	naka nmamam cel ma nostomuwon.	that my mother didn't understand.
00:27	Mm-hmm.	Mm-hmm.
00:28	Nwewitahatom yukk ihik	I remember words that
00:31	ktaqhomuhsisok etoluwehkehtit.	these old men were using...
00:33	Mm-hmm.	Mm-hmm.
00:34	...weckuwi-maceki tama aliyay.	...where I went around as I was growing up.
00:36	Nit yaka wikuwaceyu.	That was so much fun.
00:44	Nit-ona mecimiw naci-wikuwamkoman, iya, Telu, Teluhsis, nakahc	I also used to go visit Nora Noble, and
00:48	'peci-wikuwamkan nkelonosk Meriw.	my godmother, Mary, would come visit.
00:51	On-oc nit 'tahtolapekiyaniya, 'tahtola...	And they'd be rocking in their chairs...
00:54	Cel-oc astuhqepihtit...	And they'd sit there facing each other...
00:55	...astuwapekiyahtit etolakonutomahtit.	...rocking away, telling stories. And
00:58	Nit nil ahtoli-tpostom, ahtoli-tpostom.	I'd keep on listening and listening.
01:01	Nit weci wen kisokehkimsit.	That's how you can learn.
01:03	Komac-ote wikuwaceyu.	It was a lot of fun.
01:07	Nakahc, iyey, 'totolacomin iya	And Mary was telling how
01:10	Meriw kisonuwok, iyey, mahtolet.	she'd bought a blouse.
01:14	Itom, "Cel, iyey, sihkalokonishasu."	She said, "It's all full of holes."
01:17	Nit nil on-ote neqt nutomon nit.	I've heard that word just that one time.
01:19	Aha.	Yes.
01:20	Nit tehpu.	That's all.
01:20	Nwewitahatomon, sihkalokonishasu.	I remember it, "sihkalokonishasu."
01:23	Tahalu nihtol eyelets.	They were like eyelets.