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Among those that went last were a man and his wife. They had 

 two children — a little girl and a little hoy. Having put their chil- 

 dren to sleep, they carried away their household goods. Leaving 

 their children sleeping, they went with the rest of the people. 



When the children woke up, the mother and father were nowhere 

 around. As the girl was only four j^ears old and the boy six, they 

 got up from where they were lying and began to cry. When they 

 went up on the roof of their house, there was not a person around 

 the village, not one to be seen. They got hungry and the little 

 girl went down to the field and got some greens, and the little boy 

 went down and got some kmdlings. They built a fire, boiled the 

 greens, and ate. In this way they subsisted for a long time. As 

 the little boy slowly grew, he went out hunting and brought mice, 

 birds, and chipmunks. Thus they subsisted. As he grew older, 

 going out farther into the woods, he brought home rabbits, squirrels, 

 and jackrabbits that he killed with his bow and arrows. As the years 

 went by and as he grew stronger to shoot, he went up to the mountains 

 to hunt and brought deer. Thus subsisting they dwelt. 



The little girl had two Dolls. Every' day she took them out of a 

 hole in the wall and played with them. One day the Dolls said: 

 "These two poor children have been living in this way. To-morrow 

 we wLU go down southeast below the Pueblo to where Shell Hat 

 lives, to supplicate hun. Perhaps he maj' give us something." 



The next day the Dolls came forth from the hole in the wall and 

 went down below the Pueblo to Shell Hat's estufa. W^hen they 

 arrived there they stopped outside Shell Hat's estufa. There were 

 two macaw birds seated, one at each side of the roof-hole. They 

 spread their wings and acted as if they were going to Ry. "I wonder 

 why they are fluttering their wings so. You go out to see," said 

 Shell Hat to his son. When his son went outside the estufa and 

 looked, there stood the Dolls at the roof-hole. He went back again 

 into the estufa and said: "There are two little children standing 

 outside." "Tell them to come in. Why do not you tell them to 

 come in?" The Dolls were told to come in, and they entered. 



As they entered they saw that the estufa was all made of shell 

 There was shell floor, shell ceiling, and all of the estufa was of shell. 

 And there in his estufa was Shell Hat, all dressed in shell. He had 

 a slurt of shell, a hat of shell, leggings of sheU, earrings of shell. 

 "What is the matter, little children, that you come to my sacred 

 precinct? No one comes here, not even a little bird," said Shell Hat 

 to them, lighting his pipe of sheU as he told them thus. "Yes, we 

 have come here to your sacred precinct because two poor little 

 children who are keepuig us have no food to eat. The little girl 

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