6/40 It was plain to be seen that he was brooding over the painful event of the morning. Gretchen had grown cheerful again, but the bitter expression on the young Indian's face seemed to deepen in intensity. To quiet his agitation, he began his teaching by going to him and sitting down beside him on the rude bench and opening to him the primer. I can talk Chinook." In the Chinook vocabulary, which was originally the trade language of all the tribes employed by the Hudson Bay Company in collecting furs, most of the words resemble in sound the objects they represent. |