Crossword-Solution: MINY 4 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

With the Indians were two Frenchmen, Jacques Godfroy, whom we have met before as the ambassador to Pontiac in the opening days of the siege of Detroit, and one Miny Chesne; [Footnote: This is the only recorded instance, except at Detroit, in which any French took part with the Indians in the capture of a fort.

And both Godfroy and Miny Chesne had married Indian women.] and they had an English prisoner, a trader named John Welsh, who had been captured and plundered at the mouth of the Maumee while on his way to Detroit.

Probably the two most generally used are: “_My mother told me to take this one_,” and that old classic— “_Eeny, meeny, miny, mo._ _Catch a nigger by the toe;_ _If he hollers, let him go._ _Eeny, meeny, miny, mo._” This is also varied into “_Ena, mena, mona, mite._ _Pasca, laura, bona, bite._ _Eggs, butter, cheese, bread._ _Stick, stock, stone dead._” The object of a counting-out rhyme is to determine who is to be “it” for a game.

Arcadians, Eleans, Pisans, Minyæ, Dryopes, Ætolians, all genuine Hellenes, are not comprehended in it; but all of them had a right to make use of the temple of Delphi, and to contend in the Pythian and Olympic games.

Pausanias, who saw Mycenæ in the second century A.D., found it in much the same state as we do, and was no better informed than we, tho he tells us the popular belief that this and its fellows were treasure-houses like that of the Minyæ at Orchomenus, which was very much greater, and was, in his opinion, one of the most wonderful things in all Greece.