When I was little, I always played on the shore

Start Time	Passamaquoddy-Maliseet	English
00:03	Kil-lu tan, Clara,	What about you, Clara,
00:03	keq kil kwewitahatomon	what do you remember
00:05	yut-te weckuwi-macekiyin?	from growing up here?
00:09	Weckuwi-maceki.	When I was growing up.
00:12	Well, pihce apsokilan,	Well, long ago, when I was little,
00:14	mecimi ntalay ihik sitomok.	I always played on the shore.
00:18	Tehpuhc qeni-monehluk nmaksonok	I would just take off my shoes
00:19	naka ntali-qasqin nit ihik sitomok	and run around on the beach.
00:22	Cel-oc eci-wolitahasi tan ci iyey...	And I would be so happy when
00:25	tan ci macehpahak.	the tide went out.
00:27	Etuciluwahay tan ci ckuhpahak.	I would be mad when the tide came in,
00:30	Ma-te nkisayyaw nit ihik sitomok.	because I couldn't play on the beach.
00:33	Naka yuktok kensisok,	And there were these cans,
00:35	cipotu wen 'tahtuwiskutiyil,	maybe they'd been used as chamber pots.
00:36	I don't know.	I don't know.
00:39	Nit-te cipotuk.	Maybe.
00:42	Ayut alalki essok.	And I'd even dig clams.
00:46	Cel ehta anqoc nmacepha	And sometimes I'd take
00:47	katkuhk naka ntolahqosultinen essok.	a pot down and we'd cook them for ourselves.
00:50	Essok naka...	Clams and...
00:51	Ma tehpu rinkolsok.	Not periwinkles!
00:52	Nusami-cipokitahamak.	I was afraid to eat them.
00:54	Qin-ote?	Really?
00:56	Naka eci-wolihpuksihtit nikk.	But they taste so good.
00:58	Nikk piyemi-wolihpuksihtit.	They taste better than clams.
01:00	Nitok. Naka	I guess so. And
01:01	toke tepitahatom,	when I think about it now, though,
01:02	kat-op nit ntolluhkawon,	I wouldn't do that again,
01:04	'sami yet	because
01:05	'tahtuwiskutiwa mecimiw	people used to empty their
01:07	maciyapilawa ihik sitomok.	chamber pots there on the shore.
01:11	Naci-woliyaniya 'tahtuwiskutiwa.	They went there to clean them out.
01:15	Tokec-op... Ntopitahatomon	Now if... I wonder
01:16	on-al nil nqonawsin!	how I've lived so long!
01:19	Puniw kotama tehpu	In the winter they just
01:20	'sukayahkan wen naka	emptied them and
01:22	wesuwe-qasqin.	ran back home.
01:23	Kat-olu, iya.	Well, naturally.
01:24	Ma-te kenuk wen ksinuhkaw.	But no one got sick.
01:26	Ma-te wen ksinuhkaw.	No one got sick.
01:27	Nil kete qenawsi.	Like me, I've lived for this long.
01:32	Etolahqosi wen-al,	And maybe I was cooking
01:33	cipotu-te wen 'tahtuwiskutiyil!	in someone's chamber pot!
01:36	Cipotu.	Maybe so.
01:38	Kenuk ma-te nit wen	But no one thought
01:39	'topitahatomuwon weckuwi-macekit.	about those things growing up.
01:40	Ma-te wen 'topitahatomuwon.	No one thought about it.
01:42	Anqoc wen itom,	Sometimes you'd say,
01:43	"I, kat-op keq ktolessiw,"	"Gee, nothing'd happen to you,
01:44	itom, "'sami yut 'samaqan salawehtasu,	because this is salt water,
01:48	psi-te nit salaweyp."	it's all salt water."
01:55	Naka nit	And there was
01:56	kci-ponapsq qihi-te ihik	a big rock
01:59	sistossuwihkuk motapew, nit iyey	near the convent,
02:04	opokekon-ote nit ponapsq.	down below, a big flat rock.
02:07	On-oc yut natokehkimki	And when I went to school
02:08	nospekonomon yut iyey	I'd take along this...
02:11	yut iyey ahtulhawekon	this rag
02:13	naka kostokonikon.	and soap.
02:15	On-oc npisehlan npitsonakonok,	And I'd put them in my pocket,
02:17	on-oc tan eci recessuwimok	and at recess
02:18	on-oc nmotape-qasqin.	I'd run down there.
02:20	Wen-oc tomk peci-qasqit nit,	Whoever got there first could
02:22	on-oc kespahtaq.	wash the rock.
02:23	Ntahtoli-kospahtahsin nit.	I would wash it over and over again.
02:25	Qin-ote?	Really?
02:26	Aha.	Yes.