The inflection on the last word is always a rising one. This is especially true on the last syllable of the last word, "tip." The counting out is not very different from that of white children. They all place two fingers of each hand in a circle; the one who repeats the doggerel, having one hand free, touches each finger in the circle saying, _Hony, kee bee, l[=a] [=a]-weis, ag-les, huntip_. Each finger that the _huntip_ falls on is doubled under, and this is repeated again and again until there are but three fingers left. The persons corresponding to these start to run, and the one caught has to play as _Squaw-oc-t'moos_.[32] To the Indian mind "counting out" has a significance, and even the simple _huntip_ is a magic word, bringing good luck, as it lessens the chance of being "_squaw-oc-t'moos_." ["Journal of American Folk-Lore," vol. iii. No. 8, pp. 71, 72.] [Footnote 32: The word "squat" in Passamaquoddy means fire. Mrs. Brown spells the name of the swamp woman as follows: _Squaw-oc-t'moos_. The _a_ is very long, and possibly can be best represented by _aw_.] One of the songs, said to be a salutation, which was sung on the cylinders, has been written out from the phonograph by the late Mr. S.P. Cheney. The words, as nearly as I can make them out, are as follows:-- T'w[=a] too boo hen ee too boo ho [to be way] bla Tel ey wees ee lu Hoi kay yu kar, heno yah ha, Kaye yu kar, hen o yar-hah, Kay yu kar, hen o yah-hah, kay yu kar, hen o yar-hah. The first two lines are sung first to the upper staff, then repeated to the music on the second, which differs somewhat from the first. Then follows the third and fourth lines, which are sung to the third staff, and repeated with slight variation from the fourth. [Music illustration: T'w[=a] too boo hen ee too boo ho bla tel ey wees ee lu Hoi kay yu kar, hen-o yah ha, kay e yu kar hen o yar-hah.] The question of whether the Indians originally had characters to designate tones has been discussed by Theodor Baker ("Ueber die Musik der Nord Amerikanischen Wilden"). Although the Micmacs seemed to have had an elaborate system of hieroglyphics[33] to designate sounds, neither they nor their immediate neighbors, according to Vetromile, had characters to designate tones. The songs were probably committed to memory, and possibly on that account were often somewhat modified. [Footnote 33: Pictographic writing, which is so well known among the Micmacs, was also practised by the Passamaquoddies. The sign of the Passamaquoddies is a canoe with two Indians in it and a porpoise. This sign appears on rocks in certain places. The design for the present flag of this tribe is of late conception, and shows the Christian influence.]