HABWNOTONl CHILDREN'S STORIES 331 



In a little while the Buzzard called the heat. The Giant was 

 sweating as he went along the road. "S^qgerepove'eng and his wife 

 must stand heat well," said he as he sat down to rest from the heat 

 under a cottonwood tree. S^qgerepove'eng and his wife were going 

 along feeling nice and cool. 



After a while the Giant called a Crow. While he was sitting there 

 mider the shade of the cottonwood tree the Crow came to him. 

 "^^^lat is the matter, Phutetola?" said the Crow to him. "I have 

 called you so that you can summon the rain. S^qgerepove'eng has 

 stolen a pretty woman from me, and I am trackmg them. I might 

 be able to catch him wherever they stop for shelter from the rain, 

 and take the woman away from him." "I do not like the rain, 

 because if my wings get wet I soon tii'e of flying," said the Crow, and 

 flew away. 



In a little while the Crow called the rain. It began to get cloudy 

 and the rain soon began to pour. It rained, together with thunder. 

 The Giant was drenched as he went along the road. The lightning 

 struck in front of his face, and as it struck he closed his eyes. And 

 when he heard the noise of the thunder he jumped as he went along 

 there drenched. S^ijgerepove'enqi and his wife were going along the 

 road feeling nice and cool. As the Old Giant went along the road 

 drenched he said to himself, "S^qgerepove'eng must stand rain well 

 for I have not been able to overtake him yet. I think I will turn 

 back again. Why am I going, drenched as I am, and with the roads 

 muddy?" And the Giant returned again to his home. 



S?qgerepove'eng and his wife arrived home and they lived happily 

 thereafter. 



And this is why the Giant has never again come to San Juan to 

 look for more people, since he suffered so much from the heat and rain. 



You have a tail. 



The Old Giantess and the Brother and Sister Fawns. 



Long ago the Old Giantess lived at W^tholapgwa'gn- She went 

 out hunting every day and killed whatever she could out there and 

 brought it home, such as rabbits, chipmunks, tree squirrels, or what- 

 ever animals she could get while going about hunting. 



Putting her shawl over her shoulders and taking her cane, she 

 once started for Pin'oma. While she was walkhig about at Pin'oma, 

 she found two little Fawns fast asleep. Going over slowly and 

 quietly toward where they were lying asleep, she approached them, 

 covered the young Fawns with the shawl which she had on her 

 shoulders, and caught them. "Hurrah! I have got the little 

 Fawns," the Old Giantess said to herself, "now I shall take them 

 home and fatten them up and eat them." She wrapped them up 

 in her shawl, put them on her back, and carried them home. 



