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1851-1854.--Grammar and Dictionary.--How It Grew.--Publication.--Minnesota Historical Society.--Smithsonian Institution.--Going East.--Mission Meeting at Traverse des Sioux.--Mrs. Hopkins.--Death's Doings.--Changes in the Mode of Writing Dakota.--Completed Book.--Growth of the Language.--In Brooklyn and Philadelphia.--The Misses Spooner.--Changes in the Mission.--The Ponds and Others Retire.--Dr. Williamson at Pay-zhe-hoo-ta-ze.--Winter Storms.--Andrew Hunter.--Two Families Left.--Children Learning Dakota.--Our House Burned.--The Lord Provides 141