“Of miscellaneous words may be mentioned _gar_, ‘horse;’ _deer_, ‘money of any kind;’ _beer_, ‘literature, books, or school;’ _peer_, ‘ball;’ _bau_, ‘soldier, music;’ _odo_, ‘to send for, to go out, to take away;’ _keh_, ‘to soil;’ _pa-ma_, ‘to go to sleep, pillow, bed.’ The variety of acceptations which each word was capable of receiving is exemplified in many ways. Thus _feu_ might become an adjective, as _ne-pa-feu_, ‘not warm.’ The verb _odo_ had many meanings, according to its position or the words which accompanied it. _Ma odo_, ‘I (want to) go out;’ _gar odo_, ‘send for the horse;’ _too odo_, ‘all gone.’ _Gaan_ signified God; and we are told—When it rains, the children often run to the window, and call out, _Gaan odo migno-migno, feu odo_, which means, ‘God take away the rain, and send the sun’—_odo_ before the object meaning ‘to take away,’ and after the object, ‘to send.’ From this remark and example we learn, not merely that the language had—as all real languages must have—its rules of construction, but that these were sometimes different from the English rules. This also appears in the form _mea waia-waiaw_, ‘dark furs’ (literally, ‘furs dark’), where the adjective follows its substantive. “The odd and unexpected associations which in all languages govern the meaning of words are apparent in this brief vocabulary. We can gather from it that the parents were Catholics, and punctual in church observances. The words _papa_ and _mamma_ were used separately in their ordinary sense; but when linked together in the compound term _papa-mamma_, they signified (according to the connection, we may presume), ‘church,’ ‘prayer-book,’ ‘cross,’ ‘priest,’ ‘to say their prayers.’ _Bau_ was ‘soldier;’ but, we are told, from seeing the bishop in his mitre and vestments, thinking he was a soldier, they applied the word _bau_ to him. _Gar odo_ properly signified ‘send for the horse;’ but as the children frequently saw their father, when a carriage was wanted, write an order and send it to the stable, they came to use the same expression (_gar odo_) for pencil and paper. “There is no appearance of inflection, properly speaking, in the language; and this is only what might be expected. Very young children rarely use inflected forms in any language. The English child of three or four years says, ‘Mary cup,’ for ‘Mary’s cup;’ and ‘Dog bite Harry’ will represent every tense and mood. It is by no means improbable that, if the children had continued to use their own language for a few years longer, inflections would have been developed in it, as we see that peculiar forms of construction and novel compounds—which are the germs of inflection—had already made their appearance. “These two recorded instances of child-languages have led to further inquiries, which, though pursued only for a brief period, and in a limited field, have shown that cases of this sort are by no means uncommon.”