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thing has been done. So he shouted announcement, telUng the 

 parents whose children are in school at Santa Fe to go down to 

 the station at Enibudo to get their children. When the people of 

 the Pueblo heard that, the parents began to get ready. 



And the next morning they went down to the station to wait. 

 As the distance is only about 20 miles it did not take them so long 

 to reach there. They waited at the station and the train arrived, 

 but the school children did not come on that train. The parents 

 returned to the Pueblo again, disappointed. And so, people, that 

 is how an uneducated person will make trouble for us. 



Hunting the Horses 



In the springtime at Picurls when the people are through planting 

 some of them take their horses to the mountains so that they can get 

 fat by eating good grass in the mountains. There they turn them 

 loose all summer. And when fall approaches those Indians that have 

 their horees in the mountains go there to get them so that they can 

 work them when they are harvesting. 



It was on one of these occasions that a friend of mine and I went 

 up to look for our horses. While we were up in the mountains we 

 ate up all our lunch, as we did not take very much; and I sent my 

 friend down to the Pueblo for more lunch. When he went down to 

 get lunch I lived for three days up in the mountains just by boiling 

 and eating some of the green herbs that grow there. Once in a while 

 I would kill a scjuirrel with my gun. It was about three days after 

 my friend brought more lunch that we found our horses. Then we 

 took them down home again. 



Rattlesnakes 



At Picurls there are no rattlesnakes in the mountains. But many 

 of them live on the plains where there are many laulon^ bushes. I 

 do not know how many different kinds of rattlesnakes live there, 

 but believe there is only one kind. 



Some of the Indians at the Pueblo say that the rattlesnakes do 

 not bite in the summer when the moon shines. But I do know this 

 for sure: One summer evening I heard something at a distance which 

 sounded like a cricket. Then I asked one of my friends what it was 

 that made that noise. Then he told me that it was a rattlesnake 

 that made that noise. I did not believe what he said, and then he 

 told me: "If you do not believe what I say, we will go together to 

 where the sound comes from and see." Then we went. As we 

 reached there, with the moon shining, the snake lay coiled on a flat 

 rock. Its rattle stuck up in the center, and when it shook the 

 rattle it could be heard for about 2 miles away. My friend told 

 me that this is how they call their mates. That time I discovered 

 that the snake can use its rattle in two ways, to warn you when you 

 get too near where it is lying, and also to call its mate. 



