408 ISLETA, NEW MEXICO [eth. ann. 47 



and did not see his daughter. The old woman ran out and saw the 

 eagle and said, "There is our daughter! It is your fault she has 

 turned eagle, because you scolded her." They got sticks to throw 

 at the eagle. The old man ran around the village to ask them to 

 shoot the eagle. All the time the eagle was singing her song. She 

 flew off to the mountains where she lived in a cave. 



One time a hunter from another village was out hunting deer in 

 the mountain. The first deer he found he followed. At last he shot 

 the deer in the leg. The deer went into a big canyon. The hunter 

 saw a bank and on top of the bank he saw smoke coming out. He 

 went on top and saw a chimney, and he looked down and saw a fire, 

 and at the fireplace he saw a little pot boiling. He went down and 

 came to a big rock and moved it a little and went in. The girl was 

 sitting sewing. He looked at her. The girl said, "Come in! How 

 does it happen you come around here where nobody comes. If my 

 grandfather and grandmother come back, they will kill you." "No, 

 I have my gun," he said. "Sit down!" she said. Then he told how 

 he had been out hunting and had followed a deer. (The deer was 

 her grandfather.) 



The boy sat thinking. He asked her if she would marry him. "I 

 do not know if my grandfather or grandmother would let me. You 

 come to-morrow and I will tell you." At that time her grandfather 

 and grandmother came in like deer. "Who is here? We smell 

 people." The boy was hiding. "Yes, grandfather, there was a boy 

 came in; he saw the smoke and came in, but he is gone." The old 

 deer said, "No, here he is. I am going to kill him." The old man 

 started to butt him. So the boy stood there; he was not afraid. 

 Then the old grandfather and grandmother took off their skins and 

 hung them on the wall. The girl had her eagle skin hanging there. 

 Then they shook hands with the boy, and he told them how he had 

 come there and wanted to marry the girl. Her grandfather said yes, 

 she could marry him. So she married him, and he stayed there 

 They bad two sons. 



Then one time he said he was going out to see the country. As 

 he was going he came to a little village. A widow lived there. He 

 knocked at her door. "Come iii!" she said. She gave him some- 

 thing to eat. So he stayed there. He asked the widow if she would 

 marry him. They got married. The woman had four or five chickens 

 and a team. The man used to have wood to sell in the village. At 

 last they began to quarrel together. The man decided to go hunting 

 in the mountains for a few days until the woman got over it. In 

 the mountains he met a little deer, and he shot at it. He ran up to 

 it. The deer was crying and asked him not to kill her, she would pay 

 him. All right, he said, he would not kill her if she paid him. What 

 did he want her to pay him? He wanted to understand every kind 



