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"The literal meaning of the term is, a mass, or crooked ear of grain; but the ear of corn so called is a conventional type of a little old man pilfering ears of corn in a cornfield.

It is in this manner that a single word or term, in these curious languages, becomes the fruitful parent of many ideas.

And we can thus perceive why it is that the word wagemin is alone competent to excite merriment in the husking circle.
"This term is taken as the basis of the cereal chorus, or corn song, as sung by the Northern Algonquin tribes.

It is coupled with the phrase Paimosaid,--a permutative form of the Indian substantive, made from the verb pim-o-sa, to walk.