242 THE PIMA INDIANS [eth. ann. 26 



Another %Jcrsion 



At the time when the RsarsGkatc A-atam confmed the game animals 

 in the cave at Aloam mountain" our people were living between Casa 

 Grande and Tucson. Among them were two unliappy brothers, one 

 blind and the other lame. One day as the elder was lamenting, 

 crying, "Wliy am I lame?" and the other was saying, ''Wliy am I 

 blind?" they suddenly heard a peal of thunder and a voice said, 

 "Take care! Take care!" At this they were frightened, and the 

 yoimger opened his eyes to see and the elder sprang to his feet and 

 walked. 



Then they went to hunt for game, but the Rsarsljkatc A-atam had 

 cleared the ranges of every living thing that could supply the Pimas 

 with food, so that the brothers wandered over movmtain and mesa 

 without success until they were gaunt with hunger. Then the elder 

 told his brother that he would die for the latter's sake and that after 

 a time the younger brother should return to see what had been the 

 result of his sacrifice. When the young man returned he found two 

 horses, a male and a female. 



NuKSERY Tales 



THE FIVE LITTLE ORPHANS AND THEIR AUNT 



Five little Indians (not Pimas) were once left orphans because their 

 parents had been killed by Apaches, and they got their aunt (their 

 mother's younger sister) to come and live with them. She hat! no 

 man, and it was very hard for her to take care of them. One day the 

 children all went away to hunt, and they were met by five little rabbits 

 (cottontails) in the mountains. The oldest of the rabbits came run- 

 ning to the children and crying, "Don't shoot me; I have something 

 to tell you." So the children stood still and the rabbit said, "The 

 Apaches have come to your phice and burned down all the houses; 

 you had better go home now." But the children surrounded the 

 rabbit and kille<l it with an arrow and took it home. 



When they reached home, they saw their aunt lying outsiile the ki 

 in the shade, and something bloody near her. The oldest boy said, 

 "Just look what auntie has been doing! She's been eating our paint 

 and poisoned herself." But it was blood they saw coming out of her 

 mouth, for the Apaches had come and killed her. When they came 

 closer, they saw that a bunch of her hair had been cut off, and she 

 looked so unnatural in death that they thought it was somebotly else, 

 and that their aunt had gone away. They had never seen a dead 

 person before. So they said, "Let us dig a big hole and make afire all 

 day long and put hot stones in it, for she has gone to the mountains to 



oTwenty-flve miles southwest of Tucson. 



