Thou wert well-nee moidered [footnote: Distracted.] wi' me, I know, but it thou'd telled me, Mary, I mun do better or else we mun goo our sere-ways [footnote: Different ways.], belike I should a done better. I'm nobbut a mon, Mary, a lundy day-tale mon [footnote: Clumsy day-labourer.].

Mary and her husband, Jack Hyatt (Cherokee/African-American), have participated in sundances for a number of years.

Steel guitar — in which the player used a metal or glass slide to note the strings — became popular when Hawaiian musicians, such as master steel guitarist Sal Hoopi, toured and recorded in the 1910a and 1920s.

[T]he sea-swallows uttered their ringing Tree, tree, and the oyster-catchers their mocking Click, click! which has caused so many an unsuccessful sportsman to smile.