1,58 THE ACOMA INDIANS [eth, ann. 47 



"I'm afraid of her." Masewi told him, "Don't, be afraid. We'll 

 get her before sundown." 



Ckoyo said, "Here, my dear firandchildren, come here." Masewi 

 and Oyoyewi didn't want to listen, but kept playing. Ckoyo said, 

 "Now I'm gettino; tired waiting. Let's go to a nice place to play. 

 Come get in my basket. I take you to a nice place." Masewi said, 

 "Let her alone till we find out a way to get her," Then he said 

 "All right. Let's go get in her basket and let her carry us away." 



Then they went to the basket. "All right, get in." Masewi got 

 in and jumped out and in and out. "You got fine basket here to 

 carry us." "Yes; I got fine basket to carry you." They both 

 jumped in. "Now are you ready? Sit down so when I get up you 

 won't fall ofi." "AU right, grandmother." Then Masewi say, 

 "See what fine basket our grandmother got to carry us?" Oyoyewi 

 said, "Yes; that's pi-etty nice basket." 



Ckoyo stooped down and put basket on her back and she walk off. 

 Some one saw them. "Oh, some one is caught by the ckoyo. Oh! 

 it's Masewi and his brother. Let's go back and tell their mother." 

 They went back and told their mother. The mother was afraid. 

 "I tell them not to go, but now they will see how they will do them, 

 those ckoyos." She was crying, "I'll never get to see them no 

 more." 



Ckoyo got up on top of mesa in the pines and pinons. Masewi 

 and Oyoyewi woidd hang out the basket. Ckoyo would look back. 

 "Don't fall out!" "No; we just playing. We like to play." The 

 boys would pull her hair and say to each other, "I wonder what this 

 is?" Ckoyo would say, "Don't do that; that's my hair." They 

 would pull the buckskin on her shoulders. "Take us under that 

 tall pifion tree. We want to get brushes to play with." When she 

 took them under the tree they broke off some branches and got some 

 pitch. "Let's get some pitch and burn her hair ofi'. Then she will 

 throw us down." And they asked again, "Take us under that pine 

 tree. We want to get brushes to play with." Then she did. Then 

 they asked to go imder a diy pine tree. "We want to get pitch to 

 make chewing gum out of." They got the pitch to make gum out of. 

 Now they get to her home, the ckoyo. "Now, grandchildren, get 

 down. Here's the place where you can play all the time and be 

 happy." "All right." They jumping around and hollering 'round. 

 "Better go over there on west side. There is an arroyo there. 

 There is a nice place to slide down. But don't go far away. There's 

 lots bear and lion there." 



They stay there and play around tUl afternoon sometime. Then 

 they thinldng there. Masewi said, "Let's build fire down here so she 

 won't see us. Or maybe we can get some rabbits or a deer and we 

 will take to her." They walk off little ways and get some and take 



