166 THE ACOMA INDIANS [eth. ann. 47 



it was dark. The gii-1 cleaned the rabbit and cooked it. The old 

 badger made a mattress of grass for her to sleep on. 



The gLii Uved with the old badger lilve tliis. The gii-1 gathered 

 piiion nuts while the badger gathered other kinds of food. They had 

 game to eat, and hock'an (a fruit that grows on the stem of soapweed). 

 The girl dried the meat. In two days she showed signs of pregnancy. 

 In eight days she gave birth to two boys. The old badger was very 

 happy. She loved the girl and the two babies. The oldest boy was 

 named Ca-'kaiya; the other was named Go'im. (It was near the 

 spring Go'mi that the girl had met KaiiBat' and it was at Ca^'kaiya 

 that she had been seduced.) The boys grew very fast. When they 

 could talk they called the old badger "BaBa" (grandmother). Soon 

 they could talk and sing a few songs. Then they learned to walk. 

 In two years they were full-grown boys. The old badger taught 

 them to use bows and arrows. They hunted deer and antelope. 

 They began to build a house. They liked the old badger very much. 



One day when they were out hunting they cUmbed to the top of 

 Ca''kaiya. They were lookmg around. They saw some smoke 

 coming from the village at the east end of the Acoma mesa. They 

 were surprised; they didn't know what it was. "Some one must hve 

 there," they thought. 



When the boys went home they asked theij- mother, "Where do 

 we Uve? How did we come to be here?" The mother told them 

 that she used to hve at the foot of Ako. "Where is that?" they 

 asked. "I don't know." "Who is om- father?" "Kausat'." 

 They asked the badger where KauBat' lived. "Way out to the west," 

 the badger said, "it is a two day trip." The boys said they wanted 

 to go out to see their father; "We are going to visit him," fhey said. 

 "No, don't go," the badger begged the boys. "Yes; we want to go." 

 "All right, if you insist, you can go." Then the badger told the 

 boys about their father. He was a great gambler, she said. He 

 played with anyone who came along, perhaps with some people, or 

 perhaps with some k'a"'tsina who came from Wenmiats' to gamble 

 with him. Kaxisat' was very lucky and he always won m the end. 

 Then the badger told the boys about a bucksldn bag that Kausat' 

 had hanging from the ceiling in his house. AVlien KauBat' lost every- 

 thing he had, sometimes when he was unlucky, he would bet that 

 his opponent could not guess what was in the bag. He would bet 

 Ms heart against everything that the other fellow had. They coidd 

 never guess what was in the bag. The badger told the boys what 

 was in it. 



The boys got all ready to go. They had new moccasins, buckskm 

 clothes, and bows and arrows. They traveled two days. Then they 

 got to KauBaf's home. "Guatzi, naicoia (Hello, father)," they said 

 when KauBat' came out to meet them. "I have no sons," he told 



