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goes out to pick greens and the little boy goes out to hunt and kills 

 whatever he can. That is the way that they have been subsisting, 

 their parents having left them. That is why we have come down 

 here to make a plea," the Dolls said to Shell Hat. "Well, so it is," 

 said Shell Hat. As he said thus he entered a room and brought out 

 with him five grains of corn — white, black, yellow, blue, and gray — 

 and also white, black, and red beans. And he gave them to them, 

 saying: "You must tell the little children to put these in a dark 

 room. After they have put them in tliere they must lock the door 

 tight. They must not look in there for four days. They must open 

 it on the fourth day." As the Dolls were told thus, they sat there 

 thanking Shell Hat. 



The little girl looked for her two little Dolls in the wall hole, 

 but did not find them. She looked all around the house, crying, 

 but could not find them. But they entered the house again all of a 

 sudden and had with them what Shell Hat had given them. "We 

 have been down below the Pueblo where Shell Hat lives, and he ha.s 

 sent you these. He said that you must put these in a dark room, 

 but you must not look in there for four days. You must look on 

 the fifth day." When the children were told thus, they placed the 

 com and beans in a dark room. 



The night of the fourth day the children could hardly sleep. 

 The ne.xt morning as the sun was rising they got up and entered the 

 rooni in which the corn and beans were. It was filled clear to the 

 ceiling with corn of various colors, and white, black, and red beans. 

 From that time on they cooked the way they wanted to and lived 

 well. 



One day one of the Picuris men who had gone to Santa Clara 

 said to his wife: "I wonder if those two children that were left at 

 the Pueblo are still living or not. Suppose I go and see." So 

 saying, he started out. As he went along, he came to Poxonna. 

 As the children sat on top of their house looking, they saw him and 

 said: "Down southwest somebody is coming." As they watched 

 the man coming, he came up to where they were sitting. They all 

 wept as they shook hands with each other, and food was set out for 

 him, and he ate. He slept there with them that night, and the next 

 morning they sent him back to Santa Clara and to the other places 

 where the people of Picuris were staying. The man went back 

 and, calling all the people, told them to go back to the Pueblo. The 

 people put what utensils they had on their backs and started for the 

 Pueblo again. 



When they arrived at the Pueblo the children shook hands with 

 them and told them to come into their house. And their mother 

 and father, packing things on their backs, also arrived. But their 

 own children would not speak to them, nor did they tell them to 



