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all the people were together. She found a big hole where she was 

 going slowly. When she went into the hole, her child was bom. 

 The next morning when the people started she could not go. She 

 stayed four days in that hole, wondering how she could overtake the 

 people. On the fourth day she went out just as the sun was coming 

 up, to name the child, and she named him Puspiyama. When she 

 started along with her baby she happened to stop at Patok' (Santo 

 Doniingo). She lived there mitU the boy was old enough to loiow. 

 The people found out that was the gii'l who had the child as they were 

 coniing south. Then the people said , ' ' He won't be good for any tiling. 

 We might drive them out." When the boy was old enough, he would 

 play on top of the kiva and Hsten to the old men below. They would 

 say, "Drive him away, that little mischief (trespasser) (wetara'de)." 

 The little boy went and told his mother. "I was plajdng. I heard 

 the old people in theu" meeting saj^ to drive us away; but, mother, 

 we are not going away. We are going to have our home here." The 

 next night when they held their meetmg on how there was no rain, 

 no crops, he was eating the corn, melons, squash, peas, he had in his 

 house. The next morning his mother threw out the melon rinds. 

 The people said, "Where at this time of j'ear do they get these 

 melons? " They caught the little boy and took him to the kiva. The 

 old cacique said to hun, "Sit here before me. How are you going to 

 get out of this trouble?" "Oh, father, this will get me out of this 

 trouble. I hand it to you," and he handed him some tobacco in a 

 corn husk. Then the old people said, "My son, who are you? Whence 

 do you come?" "Yes, father, I am way behind for you to loiow 

 because I am nothing but wetara'de." So the old people cried out, 

 all who were there, "My son, who are you?" "I am the son of the 

 cacique. I am nothing but wetara'de." The old people held to him 

 (stood by him), and he became cacique himself. They said, "Now 

 you are to be cacique for aU the people." And so when we see a little 

 child all ragged and miserable, we may feel very badly. We think 

 perhaps this child is ragged and poor looking, but he may be cacique 

 some time. 



9. The Town Chief Flies Away on His Eagle and is Recovered 

 BY Bat 



Natoai there was a man who was t'aikabede (town chief) living at 

 Berkwjtoe', Rainbow village. He had a \vife (berla'). There was 

 a boy out hunting rabbits. He found the nest of an eagle on the 

 mesa. This eagle had two Uttle eagles. Thej^ were big enough to 

 fly. The boy was going to shoot him with his bow and arrow. There 

 was a big bush against the cliff. The boy had a belt and he tied it to 

 the bush and hung over the cliff and got the little eagle. He said, 

 "I am going to take this little eagle to my grandfather (inte'e) 



