because they don't know you." In the house lived an old man and an old woman. They greeted Juan, and asked him, "Where do you come from?"-"I come from the north." -"What do you want here?" "I came to ask you for some water. May I drink some of your water?" The old people had only one bucket, which was half full. The old man said, "I am afraid you will drink it all." Juan drank a little. Then he said, "I have three friends. Will you permit them to come here and to drink some water?" The old man gave his permission, and the animals drank. Then Juan asked, "Where is Rey's house? I know there is no water here."—"No," said the old man, "we have no water. I will show you where Rey lives." His house was the last large house on the south side of the town. The old man said, "Go to Rey's house. We have no water here at present, and the king's daughter has been tied to a tree. A large animal is going to come to-morrow to devour her." Then Juan said, "That is bad. I am going to help you. Let us go." Then they went to Rey's house from the west. He knocked at the door, and Rey came out. He said, "Good-day, my son!"-"Good-day, father! I come from the north."—"What do you want here?" - "I come to make a spring for you wherever you want to have it." - "Do you know how to do that? Are you sure?" "Yes, I can do so. To-morrow I shall make a spring for you."-"Have you had supper? Let me give you to eat, and what will your friends eat?". "They eat raw meat." Then Rey brought out raw meat for the animals. Juan went in, and they gave him supper. Rey took him a little distance away to a rocky place. He said to him, "Make the spring right here. If you cannot do it, I am going to cut off your head." The animals were afraid; but he told them that there was no need of fearing anything, because he knew how to make a spring. He read in his book, and put it back into his pocket. Rey said, "You may sleep in this house;" but he wanted to lock the door, because he was afraid of the animals. However, Juan said, "You may not lock the door, because I must get up very early. I have to make a spring before the wild animal devours your daughter." Early the next morning he arose and went out, carrying his sword. With it he marked a cross on the ground, and cried, "Espada, yu! Let a spring appear!" Then he took his cane and pushed it into the ground. When he pulled it out, the water bubbled up. It was very clear and cold. Juan went back, knocked at Rey's door, and said, "Father, I have made a spring for you. The water is already running down over the rocks." Rey went out to see it; and when he saw the well, he called for soldiers, who were to bring back his daughter before the monster (wawa'k'a) came to devour her. The soldiers went and brought her back. When the daughter arrived, she said, "I want my father to pay you." Rey

"I want six thousand." Then

asked, "How much do you want?" he called eight soldiers, who brought six boxes of money, which Rey gave to him. Juan asked, "Are there many poor people here? Call them." Rey called them. Then he opened the boxes, and gave them all the money that was in three boxes. Three boxes he kept for himself. Then he said to Rey, "Father, I have to travel on. There is another Rey who has no water. Keep the three boxes of money for me until I come back.”

Then he went on with his friends, and after three days' journey he came to another large town. In the last house outside of the town lived an old woman and an old man. He knocked at the door, and entered with his friends. "How are you?" they said. "Come in!" said the old people. Juan said, "I am thirsty. May I drink some water?" The man replied, "You may drink some, but you have to leave some for us. To-morrow morning Rey's daughter is going to be devoured by the alligator. Before that is done, we cannot get any water. She is sitting under a cottonwood-tree." Juan and his animals drank all the water that the man possessed. Then he said, “We will go and see what is happening to Rey's daughter." They went there, and found her with a chain tied around her waist, and fastened to the cottonwood-tree. When Juan and his animals approached her, she saw them. He was very beautiful to look at. She called to them. She asked, "Where are you going?" They replied, "We came to see you." "Can you help me?"-"We came to kill the alligator." The girl replied, "Go back! You cannot save me. If you untie my chain and take me to the town, my father will send me back. Therefore I may as well stay here." Juan, however, said, "Be quiet! We are going to help you." The girl was very happy, and said, "If you succeed, I will marry you." Then he unfastened the chain. He told Rey's daughter his name and sent her home. He gave her a letter to take along. Then he put the chain around himself. On the following morning, when the sun rose, the alligator came. It was a large animal, with sharp teeth and a long tongue. It put out its tongue and wrapped it around the boy, trying to pull him into its mouth. Three times it pulled, and it almost succeeded in dragging the boy away. Then Juan took his sword, and with three cuts he cut off its tongue. Then he cut off its head, and thus killed it.

The spring which he had made continued to run, and the people had an ample supply of water. He took off the chain, and went to the princess who had been in hiding. He said to her, "Go home; and if your father asks you who rescued you, do not tell him my name. Just tell him that somebody came to help you." The princess went home, and the young man went on to the town of another king. When the princess arrived at home, her father asked her, "How did

you succeed in getting home?" She replied, "Somebody has killed the animal." "Who killed it?"—"I did not see who he was." The king replied, "How, then, shall I find out who rescued you?'' The girl said, "You will find it out somehow." After some time a Mexican youth went to the water. He picked up the tongue of the animal which Juan had cut off, and carried it on his back to Rey. He said, "I have killed the animal, and I want to marry your daughter." Rey asked his daughter, “Is he the man who rescued you?" "No," she replied. After a while another man carried the head to Rey's house, and claimed to have killed the animal. He asked his daughter, but she said that he was not the right one. For three months they waited for the rescuer to come back.

Juan went on to the next town. In the last house in the town lived an old man and an old woman. When he knocked at the door, they said, "How are you, friends? Where do you come from?"— “We come from the north. We are thirsty. May we drink some water?" -"Yes, but don't drink all. To-morrow Rey's daughter is going to be swallowed by a monster, then we can get more water." Juan and his animals took a little of the water, and then they asked, "Where is Rey's house?" They conducted him there, and the old woman. knocked at the door. Rey came out, and said, "What do you want, my daughter?"-"This young man wants to make a spring. We have no water, and he wishes to help us." Rey said, "That is good. I want to see him." He greeted him, and asked for his name. He said, "My name is Juan sin Miendo. Shall I make a spring for you? Where do you want to have it?" Then the king took him down to the east side of the town, where the ground was rocky, and said, "Make a spring here." Juan said, "I shall do so early to-morrow, and then I have to go back." Rey took him into his house and gave him supper, and gave a room to him and to his animals. Then they slept. Early the next morning Juan arose. He took his sword and his cane. With the sword he made a cross on the ground, and cried, "Espada, yu!" Then he took his cane and struck it into the ground four times. At once water spurted out. He went back, knocked at Rey's door; and when he came out, Juan said to him, "Here is your spring." Rey looked at it and thanked him. He called his soldiers, who had to bring a cart, and he called his daughter, and after breakfast they brought much money. He asked, "How much do you

The boy said, "I want three thousand. My home is far away." Then they brought three trunks full of money; and Juan asked, "How many poor people are there here?"-"Almost all the people here are rich." Then Juan said, "Call the poor ones." He gave them two trunks full of money, and one he kept for himself. Then Rey gave him two saddles, which they put on Bear and Wolf,

who carried the money, while Lion carried Juan. Then he turned back. They always travelled by night and slept during the day. After three days they came to the town of Rey, whose daughter the young man had rescued. When he arrived, he knocked at the door of Rey's house. Rey was still asleep. He woke up, and opened the door. He saw the handsome youth, and asked him, "Where are you going?" Juan replied, "I come from the south. I am going back home, and I come to marry your daughter. She wants to marry me." Rey called his daughter; and when she arrived, she gave to her father the letter which Juan had handed her at the time when she was rescued from the monster. Then she said, "He is the one who killed the alligator. I am grateful, and I want to marry him. I have been waiting for him for three months." Juan and his animals entered the house. At sunrise Rey called two soldiers, and asked them to bring two piebald horses. They called the priest to unite in marriage Juan and the princess. The horses were harnessed to a buggy, and at nine o'clock the church was opened and the bells rang. people went to church, and the two were married.

All the

Then Juan and his wife left Rey, and started back to his parents' house. He had two thousand, which they put into the buggy. Now the animals did not need to carry the money any longer. They travelled day and night, and after six days they arrived at the Wolf's mountain. Then Juan said to Wolf, "Now, friend, go home! Live on rabbit and deer. You have been very good to me." They travelled on; and when they came to the next mountain, he said to Bear, "Now, friend, stay here! You shall live on piñon-nuts, on deer, and on rabbit. You have been very good to me." They travelled on. When they came to the next mountain, he said to Lion, "Now take a rest! Eat whatever you find here! You have been very good to me."

He travelled on with his wife. When he was about six miles from his home, he saw a jack-rabbit. He called it and picked it up. Its ears were white. Then he took ink and blackened the ears and the tip of the tail of the jack-rabbit, and tied a letter to its ear. He said, "Now run to my father's yard, and tell him that I am bringing home a wife. Run about in the yard, and allow the children to catch you." The jack-rabbit obeyed; and when the children saw it in the yard, it sat down and allowed itself to be caught. The children discovered the letter, and took it to José and Maria and showed it to them. Then José said, "My son is coming back. He has married Rey's daughter." He called on the people to go out and meet him. At sundown they went to the top of the hill, and they accompanied the couple back to the house where they had breakfast.

7. THE HUNTER.1

Piebald Coyote had four sisters. One day the hunter met him and was about to shoot him. Then Piebald Coyote shouted, "Don't shoot me! I have four sisters. Marry one of them." The hunter said, "Where are your sisters?" Coyote replied, "They are four doves. They come to this pond to bathe. When they reach here, they take off their clothes. You must take the clothing of one of them. Then she will not be able to resume the form of a dove, and you may marry her." The hunter let him go, and went to the pond which Piebald Coyote had shown him. After he had been there for a while, four doves came and alighted near the pond. He saw how they took off their clothing, and they became four girls who went into the pond to bathe. He crept up cautiously and took away the clothing of one of them. After the girls were through bathing, they wanted to take up their clothing again, but the youngest one found that her dress was gone. She looked around, and finally the hunter called her. He said, "If you will marry me, I will return your dress to you." After some time she consented, and he married her. Then she wished for a beautiful building to stand on the shore of the lake. At once it was there. In the rooms were beautiful looking-glasses.

After a while it was reported to the king that the hunter had built a beautiful house on the shore of the lake. The land on which the house stood belonged to the king, who had made a law that nobody should be allowed to live on that land. Then the king sent his soldiers to imprison the hunter. When they saw the soldiers coming, the hunter's wife asked for cannons, and all of a sudden the cannons appeared; and when they fired them, they killed several rows of the king's soldiers. After six days the king sent more soldiers to capture and kill the hunter; but the hunter's wife asked again for cannons, which killed the soldiers. The hunter was just sitting there; but his wife was wise, and helped him in his trouble. When it became known that the king was going to send more soldiers, the Dove-Woman said to her husband, "If you so wish, I will go home." The woman said to him, "If you should be wounded, do not cry. If you do not cry, everything will be well." After a few days the king sent more soldiers, who attacked the hunter's house. This time a ball struck the hunter's arm, and he cried. Then he fell down, and lay there like one dead. Then his wife disappeared, and the king took back the land.

The hunter remained lying there. They thought he was dead. On the following morning, however, he awoke. He looked around, and his house and his wife had disappeared. Then he said, "Oh, if I

The native title of the story is "Kasaro'ra," evidently the Spanish casador ("hunter"). See Leo Frobenius. Das Zeitalter des Sonnengottes, pp. 304 et seq.