with a bottle of whiskey. The woman was crying. Pero said, "Go and help the woman." Yus said, "No, you go out on the mountain and see what you can." Pero went out, and saw a man with a gun. He came back, and said, “I saw a man with a gun." Yus said, "It is ready now." And he went over to the woman, and she had got the baby. Next morning Yus and Pero went to the room where the woman was lying. Yus said, "Give me the baby and a diaper." The woman said, "I did not make any diapers." Yus gave a key to the woman's husband, and he went into an old house and found two big baskets of diapers. Yus took the baby in his arms. Next day Yus asked the parents if he might baptize the baby. The parents said, "Yes," and he baptized the baby Saraxeoxin.1 After Yus had baptized the baby, he told the woman they were going. He left two books for the baby, and told the mother to send him to school. One book was white, and one was red. And he left a sword and a gun for him. After they left, they travelled south again.

Then the little boy (iach hachtse, "child male") grew very fast, and the mother was anxious to send him to school. The father said not to be too anxious. The mother gave him the two books Yus left for him. They sent the little boy to school, and he learned quickly. His mother wanted him to read the books. His father said to his mother, "Wait until Yus returns, and we will give him the books." When the little boy came back from school, the father gave the white book to the little boy, and asked him if he understood it. The little boy said, "Yes." When the little boy opened the book, he read that Yus had baptized him and had left a sword and gun for him. He asked his father for the sword and the gun. His father said, "They are put away carefully; and when you are old enough to use them, I will give them to you." After he finished reading the white book, they gave him the red book. After he had read half way, he said, "Mother, go in the other room and sweep it well, and I will come in." The little boy finished reading. He went into the other room, and was hitting the books together, and a lot of silver money came out of them. He gave it to his mother; and he asked for the sword and gun, and said he was going to find Yus. She asked him how much money he wanted to take with him. He said, "Not any money at all." He got his sword and gun and started out. When he was crossing the mountains, he met a lion. He was going to shoot; but the lion stood still, and he did not shoot. And the lion came up to him; and he petted it, and it followed him. He went on, and he met a bear. He was going to shoot; but the bear stood still, and he did not shoot. And the bear came up to him; and he petted it, and it followed him. They travelled on towards the southwest. They came to a hill

1 Pronounce x as anterior palatal voiceless spirant, like ch in German ich.

where an old woman lived by herself. The little boy said, "Grandmother, I am thirsty, and my companions are thirsty too." The old woman said, "It is far to get water; but I have a little in the jar, and you may drink." The little boy said, "Grandmother, if it is far to get water, we will not take the water, but go on." They went on to the house of another old woman, and asked for water. The old woman said they could not get water until the king (lei) took his daughter to the dragon (serpi), and he was going to take her that same day. The little boy said to the old woman, "Will you let my lion and my bear stay with you? I want to take a walk for a short way."— “No, they look fierce."-"Let them stay with you! They will do as you want." He left them, and went out to the mountain where the king had taken his daughter. The little boy found her tied to a post on the mountain. "What are you doing here?" he said to her. She said, "I want to give water to my people. Why did you come?" He said to her, "I want to marry you." She said, "How can we get married?" He said, "I will save you."—"If you save me, I will marry you." The little boy said, "I shall sleep for a while. Wake me up when the dragon comes." And he put his head on her lap. And she heard the dragon and began to cry, and her tears fell on the face of the boy and woke him up. The little boy said, "Why didn't you wake me up?" Then he said to the sword, "Go straight to the dragon's heads and cut them off." And he threw the sword, and it went straight and cut off the heads, and there were eight heads. The King of Red River was watching to see if any one would save the king's daughter. The little boy cut out the tongues of the dragon and put them in a handkerchief; and he said to the king's daughter, "If I do not come back within ten years, you may marry another." And they left each other.

He went back to the house of the old woman where he left the lion and the bear. And he took them, and went on to the house of an old woman and asked for water. She said, "It is very hard to get water;" but she gave them some. The little boy said to the old woman, “Go and ask the king where he would like me to dig a well to put up a windmill. So she went to the king's house, and said there was a little boy who said he would dig a well for the king. He went to the king's house. "Are you the one to dig a well?" "Yes."-"Well, if in one day you get up the water, I will give you some money; but if you don't do it in one day, I shall kill you." The little boy let the servant with him do all the digging, and he lay down. When the servant was tired, the little boy said, "Now let me dig." He had a shield, and he told the shield to dig it. And the shield filled up with mud, and the water welled up. There was a flood in the town. The little boy went to the king's house, and the king's servants began to load up the

wagons with money for him. The king called the little boy to get it. The little boy went back to the houses of the old women who had given him water, and divided up the money among the old women, and took none himself.

He went on with his lion and his bear. He came to another old woman's house. She said that the king's daughter was going to be married to a man who had the heads of the serpent. The little boy wrote a letter and tied it around the bear's neck, and told him to go to the king's house and get some food. The king took the letter off the bear's neck, and tied another letter in its place. Then the dogs came, and began to chase the bear. He wrote another letter and tied it around the lion's neck, and told him to go to the king's house and get some food. The king ordered the soldiers to chase the lion away. But the king's daughter took off the letter and put another in its place, and tied some food around the lion's neck. The dogs attacked the lion; but the lion scratched the dogs, and took the letter and the food to the little boy. The little boy and the old woman had a big dinner. The little boy said, "Grandmother, I thought only the rich people were eating to-day. We are poor, but we are eating too." When they finished eating, he asked the old woman if he could leave the lion and bear there and go to the wedding of the king's daughter. "No, they look fierce." - "Let them stay with you! They will do as you wish.” He went to the king's house and stood by the door. The king's daughter saw him, and took his arm and led him to her father and mother, and said he was the one who saved her. But the other man said he had saved her, because he had the dragon's heads. So they opened the mouths of the dragon, and saw there were no tongues.

The King of Red River got angry and went back to Red River. The king's daughter and the little boy got married. The King of Red River said he was going to fight the little boy. The king said, "How many soldiers do you want?" The little boy said, "I think I will take only five soldiers." The little boy and the king's daughter went to another house to live. The next morning the boy went to the king's house, and the king gave him a horse and five soldiers. They were to go that morning. He went back to his wife's house to get his sword and his gun. He went to the mountain where they were to fight. And the King of Red River had thousands of soldiers. He said to his sword, "Go and cut off the heads of all the soldiers excepting the king." The sword cut off all the soldiers' heads, and he put them in a bag and carried them to the king. The next morning the King of Red River wanted to fight again. The little boy asked for five soldiers again. After breakfast they left, and they got to the mountain before dinner; but the soldiers of the King of Red River were not yet come. After a time they arrived. He said to his sword,

"Go and cut off the heads of all the soldiers excepting the king." The sword cut off all the soldiers' heads, and he put them in a bag and carried them to the king. The King of Red River went to an old woman's house. He told the old woman to go and see what kind of a sword and gun it was the little boy fought with. She did not want to go, but the King of Red River made her go. She went to the house of the little boy, and asked the king's daughter to show her the sword and the gun. The king's daughter showed her the sword and the gun, and she looked to see how they were made. She went back to the King of Red River, and told him how they were made. He made out of clay a sword and gun just like them, and told the old woman to put them in place of the sword and gun of the little boy. She took them to the king's daughter, and said she wanted to look again at the sword and gun; and she told her to go into the other room and look at them. She put the clay sword and gun in their place, and put the others under her shawl and took them to the King of Red River. He wrote again to the king that he wanted to fight again. The next day they were to fight. The little boy went and asked his wife to give him the sword and gun. He did not know they had been exchanged. He started with his five soldiers. The King of Red River threw his sword, and it cut off the heads of the little boy and his five soldiers.

The lion and the bear came up, and found the boy there with his head cut off. They put his head on again, and they told him to go back to his wife's house. But he did not want to go, because he knew that the King of Red River was already there. So he sent back the lion and the bear to the house of the old woman, and said that in four days he would come. He was lying down by the road. An Indian was passing. He called to him, "Do you want to get rich?"-"How can I get rich? I have been poor for a long time." - "I will make you rich. I will turn myself into a fine horse; and you ride on me, and ride past the house of the King of Red River, and he will want to buy the horse and give you four wagon-loads of silver money." So the Indian said he would do this. The boy turned himself into a fine horse with bridle and saddle of gold, and the Indian rode him past the house of the King of Red River. And the king's daughter ran out and saw the horse, and told the King of Red River to buy it or she would leave him. "How much do you want for the horse?" said the King of Red River to the Indian. "Four wagonfuls of silver money." The King of Red River gave him the four wagonfuls of silver money, and took the horse. The next day they were to have a feast. The King of Red River was putting the saddle on the horse, the king's daughter was dressing. She called in her husband to dress. She went out and began to pet the horse, and she saw on his forehead a white cross; and she knew it was the little boy, because he had a cross

on his forehead, too. She called her husband, and told him it was the little boy he had killed. So he cut off the head of the horse and burned it. Blood-drops from the horse fell into the well and turned into a gold fish. The king's daughter went to get water, and saw the gold fish, the largest of all. And she told her husband to catch it or she would leave him. So he caught the fish, and they put it into a tub. And the king's daughter saw it was not a fish, but the little boy who was her first husband. So they killed the fish and burned it. And the lion and the bear came and took the ashes, and turned them into a bird.

The king's daughter and the King of Red River started to go to the feast, and she saw the bird. She said, "Catch it or I shall leave you." He ran after it. The sword got in his way. She said, "Drop the sword." He dropped it. The bird flew down and turned into a boy. He took the sword and killed the King of Red River. He took hold of the arm of the king's daughter and led her back to her parents. He said he had had much trouble for her sake. The king became angry, and ordered his soldiers to bring four mules; and he tied his daughter upside down to the mules, and then let the mules go wild. That is the end of the story.

6. THE RICH MAN AND THE POOR MAN.1

God was travelling about on earth in the form of a poor man. He had taken the name Wagi'no. He was carrying a small bundle on his back. He wanted to see how he would be treated by the people. He came to the house of a bad rich man. He knocked at the door, but was refused admittance. He went from house to house, but nobody invited him in. Finally he came to the last house, in which lived a poor old man and his wife. The name of the man was José, and his wife's name was Maria. When he knocked at the door, they let him in. They asked him to sit down; and José said to his wife, "Give him something to eat, he may be hungry." She gave him cornmush with chili and tamales. Wagi'no thanked her for the food, and spoke: "Go into the north room, you will find bread there."-"No," replied Maria, "I go there very often, but there is nothing in there.”

1 Tales 6-8 were told in English by Robert Brown of Laguna, and recorded by F. Boas. The prolix diction is quite similar to that used by the narrator in tales told by him in Indian.

No. 6 is another version of No. 5. The combination of "The Rich Man and the Poor Man" and of "Seven-Heads" characterizes it. There is introduced, however, the story of rejuvenation, which does not occur in the other version, and which does not belong either to "The Rich Man and the Poor Man" or to "Seven-Heads," but to the tale of Petrus and the soldier. The story of "Seven-Heads" is evidently entirely misunderstood. The narrator seems to have reconstructed it on the lines suggested by the occurrence of the three animals, the note sent to the king's daughter, and the familiar motive of the dragon's tongues.