ᏍᎩᏴᏃ ᏲᎾ ᎤᏤᎵᎪ ᏐᏉ ᎢᏯᎦᏴᎵ ᎢᏰᏆ, ᎤᏩᏌ ᎤᏤᎵᎪ, ᏃᎴ ᎠᏯ ᎠᏆᏤᎵᎪ ᏰᎵ ᎢᏰᏆ, ᎠᏎᏃ ᏓᏆᏓᏚᎬ, ᏧᏓᎸᏏᏴᏓ, ᎾᎥᏂᎨ ᎤᏁᏍᎩᎸ ᏥᏍᏆ ᎠᏣᏗ ᏗᎦᏯᎩᏍᎩ.
At that time we had Bear’s thousand acres, which he owned outright, and my more extensive land, which I controlled mainly through a series of notes and IOUs as interlocked and tangled and messy as an old weathered osprey nest.