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diff --git a/32301.txt b/32301.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f510a56 --- /dev/null +++ b/32301.txt @@ -0,0 +1,1196 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of Indian Child Life, by +Edwin Willard Deming and Therese O. Deming + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Indian Child Life + +Author: Edwin Willard Deming + Therese O. Deming + +Illustrator: Edwin Willard Deming + +Release Date: May 8, 2010 [EBook #32301] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK INDIAN CHILD LIFE *** + + + + +Produced by Greg Weeks, Josephine Paolucci and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. + + + + + + + +INDIAN CHILD LIFE + +[Illustration] + +By E. W. DEMING + +[Illustration] + + + + +INDIAN CHILD LIFE + +WITH NUMEROUS FULL-PAGE COLOUR-PLATES AFTER PAINTINGS IN WATER-COLOUR +TOGETHER WITH ILLUSTRATIONS IN BLACK-AND-WHITE + +BY EDWIN WILLARD DEMING + +AND WITH NEW STORIES + +BY THERESE O. DEMING + +[Illustration] + +NEW YORK + +COPYRIGHT, 1899, BY + +FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY + +PUBLISHERS +_PRINTED IN AMERICA_ + +[Transcriber's note: Extensive research did not uncover any evidence +that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] + + + + +A RUNAWAY. + + +Once, after an ARICKARA Indian mother had finished all her packing, as +they were going to move camp, she fixed a travois on her big dog and +placed her baby in the basket. Then all was ready and they were about to +start, when a great, ugly black dog came along, and the two dogs began +to fight. + +The squaw whipped them apart, and after she had quieted her poor little +baby boy, who had been very much frightened, she put him back into his +little carriage, and soon the Indians started. + +[Illustration: THE TWO DOGS BEGAN TO FIGHT.] + +The squaw walked beside the dog to guide him and, also, to amuse her +baby. Indian babies play with little dolls made of buckskin, with long +buckskin fringe for hair. If a feather is placed in the dolly's hair the +babies think it is beautifully dressed. + +The baby of our story was having a lovely time with his dolly and so his +mother thought she would just drop back and have a little chat with +another Indian mother while the baby was good. + +She had hardly turned around, when that naughty dog saw a great big jack +rabbit, just ahead, and thought it would make a delicious dinner. Off he +started. He jumped right through the rough sage brush, and the poor baby +rolled out. His mother was afraid he would be badly hurt, but he was +only frightened. When the squaw caught the naughty dog again, she tied a +rope around his neck and kept tight hold of it, so he couldn't play +another trick on her. + +When the Indians stopped and camped, the little boy picked up a stick +and whipped that dog as hard as he could for treating him so badly +during the day's traveling. + +[Illustration: THE LITTLE BOY PICKED UP A STICK.] + +[Illustration] + + + + +A GREEDY BEAR. + + +Once there was a little PUEBLO Indian boy and his father was one of the +best hunters in the village. One morning he went out into the mountains +to shoot deer, the meat of which was to be dried for the winter supply. + +He was walking very carefully, as he would have frightened the game away +if he had made a noise. + +Suddenly he heard a sound as if a mama bear were scolding a cub for +being selfish. He looked, and there, indeed, was an old she-bear turning +over stones and trying to find some grubs for her babies. + +[Illustration: TRYING TO FIND SOME GRUBS FOR HER BABIES.] + +The Indian shot the mama bear and one of the cubs scampered off as fast +as he could go, but the hunter caught the other little bear and tied a +horse-hair rope tight around the little fellow's neck, so he could drag +him home to his little TAN-TSI-DAY. + +The two became very good friends, and when TAN-TSI-DAY'S mother brought +a bowl of porridge to her baby, she always put in enough for the baby +bear too. + +One day the baby bear was naughty, and when TAN-TSI-DAY'S mother had +gone into the house, he took the bowl and ate all the porridge himself, +and didn't give his little playfellow any. + +The baby was very much surprised, and called his Indian mother. + +Do you know how she punished the selfish little bear? When the next +meal-time came, she just brought enough of the good porridge for her +TAN-TSI-DAY, and made that naughty bear eat with the puppies. I think +baby bear won't be such a greedy little fellow when allowed to eat with +his little companion again. + +[Illustration: DRAG HIM HOME TO HIS TAN-TSI-DAY.] + +[Illustration] + + + + +IN MISCHIEF. + + +The naughty bear had been kept away from his playfellow for some time, +and as the two loved one another so much, it made them both feel very +sad. + +One day the Indian mother went out to visit, and baby bear saw her go. +"Now," thought he, "I will see my little friend, and, if I am a very +good little bear, perhaps his mother will let us play together again." + +Baby bear crept along very carefully, and when he thought the mother was +not looking he hid behind a bake oven and almost had his first accident, +for TAN-TSI-DAY'S mother had left one of her best jars standing there +with herbs to dry. + +[Illustration: HE HID BEHIND A BAKE OVEN.] + +When the mother had got out of sight the baby bear marched into the +adobe home of his friend, and then the two companions were glad. + +But baby bear and TAN-TSI-DAY saw the jars with all the good things in +them, and then they forgot to try to be good. + +They ate the dried berries and sweet roots; tipped the jars and baskets +to see if any goodies were in them; and when they had eaten all they +wanted, sat just as close to each other as possible and went fast +asleep. + +After a while the mother came home, and when she saw those two fast +asleep, the jars broken, and all her good things spilled over the floor, +she became very angry and started to whip them. + +Baby bear wakened up and ran as fast as his clumsy little legs would let +him; but he didn't reach the top of his pole before the Indian mother +had given him a good switching. + +[Illustration: REACH THE TOP OF HIS POLE.] + +[Illustration] + + + + +CANOE BOYS. + + +Little CHIPPEWAY Indian boys have lots of good times. In the spring they +help their fathers and big brothers to make maple sugar. They watch the +birch-bark troughs and, when one is full of sap, carry and empty it into +a big kettle over a fire to boil down. + +Often the bears find the sap during the night, and, as they like sweets +very much, drink it all; and the little boys are disappointed in the +morning, when they go around with their birch-bark buckets, to find it +all gone. Sometimes the bears try to steal the boiling syrup, and then +they get their paws badly burned for trying to be thieves. + +[Illustration: THE BEARS FIND THE SAP.] + +In summer, the boys love to swim and play in the little lakes that are +so numerous in the region of their home. One afternoon a number of boys +got into a canoe and paddled, and as many other boys waded out into one +of the shallow lakes to have some fun. The boys in the water were to try +and take the canoe away from the boys that were inside. Oh, how hard the +two sides worked, one to keep the boat right side up, and the other +side to capture it; for if they tipped the canoe and spilled all the +boys out they gained the victory, and would get in and see if they could +hold it. They splashed the water in all directions, and when one boy +fell or was pulled out of the boat, didn't he get a good ducking! The +little dog helped all he could by barking very loud and trying to +frighten the boys in the water. + +They played until it was so dark they had to stop and go home. + +Their houses, canoes, baskets, buckets and various other things, are +made out of the bark of the birch tree. + +Whenever any of the CHIPPEWAY Indians want to go visiting, they always +go in canoes when possible, for they are canoe Indians and almost live +in their boats. They seldom go visiting on horseback as most other +tribes do. + +[Illustration: THEY ALWAYS GO IN CANOES.] + +[Illustration] + + + + +WINTER FUN. + + +The little ASSINIBOIN Indian boys had a great deal of snow in winter, +and, as they have no sleds as white boys have, they took buffalo ribs +and slid down hill on them. + +A little boy was walking over the snow one day, on his snow-shoes, when +he thought what fun it would be, if the boys would all go over on the +hill and slide. He walked through the village, playing he was the town +crier, and called all the little boys out on the hill to slide. + +They all took their buffalo ribs and went out, and the little +girls--some who had babies on their backs, and some who were only +playing--and even the mothers and grandmothers went along to see how +much fun the boys were going to have. + +[Illustration: A LITTLE BOY WAS WALKING OVER THE SNOW ONE DAY, ON HIS +SNOW-SHOES.] + +Some of the boys fastened the buffalo ribs on their feet, while others +made little sleds by fastening the ribs together and making cross pieces +of wood. Then they started at the top of the hill and came down, one +after the other, shouting and laughing while other boys threw snow at +them. + +Several times they went down the hill without any accident, and they +were beginning to think nothing could throw them. They all ran up the +hill for another long slide, the first one up was to be the first to +start. One started right after the other, and as the first one was +nearly at the bottom of the hill he lost his balance and over he went. +The other boys were close behind him, and as each one came he went over, +and the boys and girls, who were watching thought that was more fun for +them than the sliding had been. Even the three companions who had been +throwing sticks over the snow to see which could make them slide +farthest, stopped their game to see how the boys were piled on top of +one another. + +[Illustration: THROWING STICKS OVER THE SNOW TO SEE WHICH COULD MAKE +THEM SLIDE FARTHEST.] + +[Illustration] + + + + +MR. AND MRS. ANTELOPE AND THE BABIES. + + +One bright, sunny day, Mr. and Mrs. Antelope took little Baby Antelope +out for a run. They knew where to find a lovely feeding-ground, so that +their baby could have a good dinner of nice young grass. + +Mr. and Mrs. Antelope were walking along very quietly; but the baby was +so pleased to get out, that she gamboled far away, and frisked about. + +Pretty soon she came running back very much frightened and said, "Oh +Mamma and Papa Antelope, do come with me! I have seen some of the +queerest little animals over near that tree, and I don't know what they +are." + +[Illustration: MR. AND MRS. ANTELOPE TOOK LITTLE BABY ANTELOPE OUT FOR A +RUN.] + +Mr. and Mrs. Antelope became very much worried, because they thought +perhaps their little one had seen one of those animals that walk on two +legs and carry a long iron stick that can hit and kill them from afar. +As Mr. and Mrs. Antelope are very curious people, they wanted to see +what their baby meant. Can you guess what they saw? Leaning against the +tree were two queer little animals. Mr. and Mrs. Antelope thought hard +and looked very keenly; but they had never seen such animals before. + +Weren't Mr. and Mrs. Antelope funny? They didn't know that if they +stayed much longer, a SIOUX Indian mother would come out from the bushes +where she was picking berries and frighten them away from her little +baby and then she would have to scold her daughter TOM-BE for falling +asleep and not taking better care of her baby brother. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + + + + +THE CLIFF-DWELLERS AND THEIR PETS. + + +A long time ago, before the white people came to live here, the COCHITI +Indians used to live in houses made by hollowing deep holes into the +north side of the deep canons. They built their houses to face the +south, because it was warmer in winter when the fierce north wind came +over the mountains to see what damage he could do. Instead of finding +houses to go into, he could only blow against the mountains. + +The little boys used to climb down the sides of the cliffs from their +homes, and play in the warm sunshine with their tame foxes and make them +jump for dried meat. + +[Illustration] + +Sometimes they took their bows and arrows and went out to hunt wild +turkeys in the arroyos, or deep gullies around their homes. + +At night the foxes found a warm place in some house that had been +deserted, perhaps because the opening had grown too large and the sand +had drifted in, or perhaps because it was not sheltered enough from the +snow in winter. The boys would climb to their own houses. + +In those days, the men and boys had to watch from high places to warn +the people of the approach of any of their enemies, because the NAVAJO +and APACHE Indians troubled the PUEBLO Indians a great deal in olden +times. + +As long as the watchers could see no enemy, the women used to carry +water from the river--which was quite far away--gather wood and till +little patches of ground, but as soon as the enemy came down upon them, +they looked for water in wells dug into the rock to hold the rain when +it fell. This water was always saved for cases of this kind. + +[Illustration: SOMETIMES THEY WENT OUT TO HUNT WILD TURKEYS.] + +[Illustration] + + + + +THE BURRO RACE. + + +TOM-O-PING was a little PUEBLO Indian boy and one day his father said +to him, "TOM-O-PING take my big black burro over to the canon to +feed." TOM-O-PING didn't say, "wait a minute" to his father, but +jumped right on his burro. + +As he was going through the pueblo, he met his three companions, +A-GO-YA, TO-A and BO-PING. TOM-O-PING did not like to go alone, so +he asked two of his little friends to jump on behind him while the third +ran along as best he could, and they would all get their own burros and +have a race. The boys did not have to be asked twice, so they jumped on +behind TOM-O-PING and then, as they were anxious to get to racing, +they all tried to hurry the poor old burro along by kicking him in the +ribs while BO-PING'S dog barked at his heels. Mr. Burro was tired and +wouldn't endure that long: so in a moment he was standing on his +fore-legs and the three boys were turning somersaults over his head, +while the dog was kicked high in the air. The boys jumped upon his back +again and this time were more patient, so they finally reached the canon +where the donkeys were feeding in safety. + +[Illustration: WHILE BO-PING'S DOG BARKED AT HIS HEELS.] + +The three waited for their friend to come and then each boy caught his +own little animal, and as TO-A was the eldest boy he gave the signal +to start. ONE! TWO!! THREE!!! and off they went over fields and prairie, +down the old trail and through the sage brush, shouting and laughing and +urging their little steeds along. First BO-PING was a little ahead, and +then he was glad, for he had been telling how well his little donkey +could go. Then the others whipped their small animals a little harder +for none wanted to be beaten. How they did go! You never saw four little +donkeys go faster. At last the race came to an end, and the little +children, who had gathered to see the finish, clapped their hands and +laughed as TO-A, who was a favorite with them all, came in just a +little ahead of his companions. + +[Illustration: THE BOYS WERE TURNING SOMERSAULTS OVER HIS HEAD.] + +[Illustration] + + + + +LEARNING TO SHOOT. + + +Indian fathers are just as proud of their little sons as white fathers +are of theirs. + +One day, a CROW Indian chief came in from the mountains, where he had +been hunting and said to his little son: "Now, my little warrior, you +are getting to be a big boy, you must grow up to be a big chief of your +tribe. You must learn to shoot and be brave so that when you grow up, +you will earn a name, and your people will love you." + +The father gave his little son a tiny bow and some arrows, and taking +him by the hand, called his little dog and went out to see what they +could find to shoot at. Just outside of the tepees, were some bushes +where the magpies had gathered and were chattering together, enjoying +the beautiful sunshine. + +Magpies are very inquisitive birds, and when they saw the little hunter, +come along with his dog and his father, one of the little birds jumped +down from the bush and hopped over to see what they were going to do. +The father thought this was a good chance for his boy, so he got down on +the ground to instruct him. The little fellow shot, and do you know he +killed one of those birds! + +[Illustration: GAVE HIS LITTLE SON A TINY BOW.] + +Then the father was just as proud as his little boy. The little fellow +picked up the bird, and then off he started for home. His mother was +sitting in the tepee making her little son a new pair of moccasins, and +when he came in and threw the bird over for her to see, she was as much +pleased as her boy, for soon he would be able to shoot rabbits and other +game for her to cook for his dinner. + +[Illustration: ABLE TO SHOOT RABBITS.] + +[Illustration] + + + + +LITTLE BIRD, THE NAVAJO SHEPHERD BOY. + + +Little bird was a little NAVAJO boy, whose papa had given him a dear +little pony, because he took such good care of the sheep. + +When LITTLE BIRD went out with his papa's flock of sheep, he always took +some goats along to help keep the flock together and drive off wolves or +bears. LITTLE BIRD, on his pony's back, would watch, and the goats would +climb on the rocks where they could see a long distance. One day, while +they were watching, LITTLE BIRD fell asleep, on his pony's back. He +didn't think there were any wolves or bears about; but soon he was +dreaming that he heard the sheep making a great noise, and when he +awoke, he saw that they were very much frightened and that the goats +were marching toward the canon. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +What do you think he saw? A great, black bear holding a dear little lamb +in his arms. + +[Illustration] + + + + +LITTLE BEAVER AND THE TAME CROWS. + + +One day as LITTLE BEAVER was playing on the prairie before his mother's +tepee, he saw his father coming across an arroyo from a hunting trip he +had taken. LITTLE BEAVER looked very intently, for on top of one of the +pack horses, he saw two black things flapping their wings. + +As soon as his father had got home and the things were unpacked, he +said, "Come, my little warrior, I want to tell you a story." As soon as +his little boy was on his knees he said: "While I was riding through the +woods, I heard something say, 'Caw, Caw.' At first, I didn't see where +it was and then I wished I had my little bright-eyed boy, for he could +see. By and by it said 'Caw, Caw,' again and then, looking up, I saw an +old mother crow standing on a limb, with a little crow on each side of +her. I shot the mother and then climbed the tree and captured these two +little crows and brought them home to my boy." + +LITTLE BEAVER was very much pleased, and he used to play a great deal +with these two new pets. + +[Illustration] + +Not long after, when the crows had grown quite big and mischievous, +LITTLE BEAVER sat outside of the tepee on the ground, to eat some +dinner. The crows saw him and came running over to him. While LITTLE +BEAVER tried to frighten one away the other would try to steal his meat +and they kept it up quite a while until the little boy whipped them +away. Then the crows felt very mournful to think they had been beaten, +and walked away with their heads drooping, as if they knew enough to be +ashamed of what they had tried to do. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + + + + +BRIGHT-EYES AND HIS PUMA KITTENS. + + +Indian boys have very queer pets; they capture bear cubs, puma or +mountain lion kittens, and various other young animals of the forest and +tame them. The boys like to play with these strange pets, as much as +little white boys love to play with puppies or kittens. + +Some Indian boys, just like the white boys, enjoy teasing their pets, +which is very wrong as it makes the animals very angry, and often the +boys are punished beyond their expectation for their naughtiness. + +BRIGHT-EYES was a little PAWNEE boy, who had two pretty little puma +kittens, of which he was very proud, and when he did not tease or make +them angry they would let him fondle and caress them just as you would a +kitten. + +[Illustration: SOME INDIAN BOYS ENJOY TEASING THEIR PETS.] + +One day BRIGHT-EYES was sitting on a blanket under a tree playing with +his kittens, when two of his friends came along. He asked them to stop +and they did, because BRIGHT-EYES seemed to be having such a good time +with his pets. + +The other boys did not play as gently as BRIGHT-EYES had done, and began +teasing the kittens. They became very angry and wild. They scratched at +the boys and tried to bite them, and if BRIGHT-EYES had been alone he +would have fared very badly because he could not have beaten his wild +pets off, but the other boys were older and they succeeded in quieting +them enough to lead them away and tie them up. + +The kittens never trusted BRIGHT-EYES again as they did before, and the +little fellow felt very sad. His father did not trust him with his pets +either, and after that always kept the kittens tied even though +BRIGHT-EYES promised not to make them angry any more. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + + + + +HODGSKA MAKES A VISIT. + + +I will tell you of a little red boy going visiting, and perhaps you can +fancy why he liked it so much. + +One day a CROW Indian mother called her little boy, HODGSKA, and told +him to get dressed and she would take him to see his grandfather. +HODGSKA was delighted. He came running in, and his mother put a pretty +red breech-clout on him, braided his hair neatly, and then painted the +part in his hair red, and HODGSKA was ready to start. + +[Illustration: HAD TO PULL UP HIS FEET TO KEEP HIS MOCCASINS DRY.] + +The horses were all ready, too. The mother's saddle was all decorated +with bright colored flannel and pretty bead work, and HODGSKA had a +bright blanket thrown over his horse's back. The mother rode in front +because she had to lead the way. They followed an old trail for awhile, +and HODGSKA was disappointed because he didn't think that was fun. Then +off in the distance he saw a river, and oh how he wished they would have +to cross it! + +HODGSKA was delighted when they really started to cross. In splashed the +horses, and the water kept getting deeper and deeper until it came so +high that the little boy had to pull up his feet to keep his moccasins +dry. + +After the river had been forded they had to climb over a mountain, and +HODGSKA was glad he had brought his bow and arrows because he might be +able to shoot something to take to his grandfather. They rode very +quietly, and little HODGSKA tried to ride especially quiet because he +knew if he made much noise he would frighten the game. Soon he heard a +little noise in the brush and looking over he saw two pretty deer, but +they saw him, too, and ran off just as fast as they could. + +HODGSKA heard the little birds chattering and calling to one another and +he saw a bear, but he found nothing he could shoot; so he had to meet +his grandfather without being able to show what a hunter he had become. + +[Illustration: HE SAW TWO PRETTY DEER.] + +[Illustration] + + + + +PLAYING AT MOVING HOUSE. + + +Once there were two little PIEGAN Indian girls and they had been playing +in a little play tepee for a long time. They had their baby brothers +with them, and the babies had been playing out in the warm sunshine with +their dogs, while the little girls played with their Indian dollies. + +The little brothers were good for a long time, and then they became +tired of playing in one place, just as little white children get tired, +so the sisters thought they would play at moving house. + +They fastened two long poles to the sides of the dog and made a travois, +then they put a basket between the poles and laid their dollies in this +play carriage. Then the little girls started to take down their tepee. + +[Illustration: RAN OFF AS HARD AS HE COULD RUN.] + +All of a sudden the most awful accident happened! The puppy caught one +of the dollies in his mouth and ran off as hard as he could run. The +poor little mamma was almost frantic. She ran after the naughty puppy +and caught him just as he was about to chew that poor dolly up! + +After the poor dolly had been petted and loved, it was put back into the +travois, and after all the packing had been finished the little girls +took their baby brothers on their backs and started to move. + +Just as they were passing their homes their mothers came to the door and +called them in to their dinner. They didn't say "In a minute," as little +white children very often do, but went right away. + +[Illustration: TOOK THEIR BABY BROTHERS ON THEIR BACKS.] + +[Illustration] + + + + +THE WAR DANCE. + + +I fancy that little white children don't know that their red brothers +like to dress up in grown-up people's things just as much as they do. + +One day several little SIOUX Indian boys decided to have a war dance. +They braided each other's hair, and one little boy was so vain that, +while his companion was braiding his hair, he kept admiring himself in a +little piece of looking-glass that he held in his hand. After all had +their hair finished, they put on the dance costumes just as they had +seen their fathers do. Each wore the roach on his head, beads around his +neck, and the belt; then each took his little bow and they started to +have the dance. + +When the girls heard their little brothers playing outside, they went to +the doors of their lodges to watch them. Then the boys had to do their +best, of course, to show the girls what brave warriors they were going +to be. + +[Illustration: KEPT ADMIRING HIMSELF IN A LITTLE PIECE OF +LOOKING-GLASS.] + +An old grandfather was sitting out-of-doors sunning himself; so the boys +brought a tom-tom, and asked him to make music for them. Then they +danced the war dance in earnest--a true imitation of their fathers. They +danced for several hours, until they were so tired they could dance no +longer; then they retired to a tepee, which they made believe was their +council house, and in council they decided that the little girls would +surely have much more respect for them in the future. + +[Illustration: THE LITTLE GIRLS WOULD HAVE MORE RESPECT FOR THEM.] + +[Illustration] + + + + +TAKING CARE OF THE PONIES. + + +Out in the real wild West, where the PONCA Indians live when they are at +home, there are bears, mountain lions, wolves, foxes, and many other +wild animals, always roaming about in quest of food. + +Every evening, when it begins to get dark, the little boys have to go +out and gather together all the horses, drive them to the village, and +picket them for the night where the men can watch and keep them safe, +not only from wild animals, but from Indians belonging to hostile +tribes, out on horse-stealing expeditions. + +[Illustration: THE WOLF.] + +After the horses are safely picketed around camp, the small boys can +play and have a good time; but they have to go to bed early because they +have to be up very early in the morning. When the boys are all through +with their breakfasts they drive the horses first to water for a drink, +and then over to the canons where some of them are hobbled and allowed +to feed all day. When the boys hobble their horses they tie their front +legs together down near the hoofs, so that the horses can only take +short steps, and cannot run or wander off very far. + +While the little boys are out herding they keep their bright little eyes +wide open to see everything. Sometimes they shoot at the little prairie +dogs with their bows and arrows; but the prairie dogs have very bright +eyes, too, and down they go into their little holes before the arrows +can hurt them. + +The wise little owls live with the prairie dogs and they come out and +sit near the holes watching for mice. The little boys shoot birds, +rabbits, and various other small animals while they are out tending the +horses. + +Sometimes when Indian mothers are very busy or want to visit, they +hobble their little ones by tying their feet together, so that they can +take short steps only. Then the babies can play out-of-doors, and the +mothers are sure they cannot get very far away from home. + +[Illustration: THE WISE LITTLE OWLS.] + +[Illustration] + + + + +THE BABIES AND THE WOODPECKERS. + + +One day two WINNEBAGO Indian mothers took their little baby boys and put +them on a blanket to play together. They were two happy little children, +and after they had finished the bowl of dinner their mothers had given +them, they didn't cry, but started playing with their little fingers and +toes, and trying to catch the little stray rays of sunshine. + +They were sitting in the shade of a little sapling, and suddenly they +heard a little "tap! tap!" against the tree. The babies looked all +around, but they couldn't see anything. Then they heard another, "tap! +tap!" just like the first one. This time they looked at the tree, and, +can you tell what they saw? Two great, big woodpeckers, with great red +heads. The babies thought they were such pretty birds, but they did not +know what to say to them, and so were a little bashful; while the +woodpeckers were very curious to know what new kind of animal they had +found. + +[Illustration: THE BADGERS COME OUT OF THEIR HOLES.] + +You see there were no nice fat little worms in the young tree, and so +the birds may have thought that the children had a bowl full of their +favorite food, and they had themselves come too late. + +Little Indian children learn to know wild animals very early. Sometimes +the badgers come out of their holes to look at them, and then the +children are very much frightened because badgers are wise animals and +play many tricks on people. + +At night, when they lie awake in their little beds, the children hear +the wild geese talking to one another as they fly over the village. Then +the mother tells them what bird is making the noise, and she also tells +them, that when the geese fly south it will be too cold before very long +for their babies to sit out of doors and when they fly toward the north, +Spring is on the way with its beautiful sunshine. + +[Illustration: THE WILD GEESE TALKING TO ONE ANOTHER AS THEY FLY.] + +[Illustration] + + + + +HOW THE PUEBLO BOYS WERE FRIGHTENED. + + +Little Indian children, like their white brothers, have to be in bed +early or their mothers tell them that the Indian bugaboo, which is a +water spirit, will come after them. + +Sometimes the PUEBLO children, just like their white brothers, too, +think their mothers are only trying to frighten them, when she reminds +them of the time and tells them stories of how children are taken away, +if they stay up late. + +One day some little boys were talking the bugaboo stories over, and they +decided to try and see if their mothers were telling them true stories; +so, after they had been sent to bed, they were very quiet for awhile, +but when their mothers weren't watching, they slipped out. + +[Illustration: IT WAS A LOVELY NIGHT.] + +It was a lovely night and they thought they would go behind the houses +and play awhile. The boys were running along, thinking of how they never +again would be afraid of the water spirit, when, they all stopped short. +For a moment they were so frightened, they could scarcely move. What do +you think they saw? There, coming out of a doorway, straight ahead of +them, was one of those terrible water spirits their mothers had been +telling them about. It was coming right after them, shaking a rattle. I +tell you those boys ran! + +Several very much frightened boys reached their homes, and, after that, +they were very glad to go to bed when it was time, for they never again +wanted to be chased by another water spirit. + +But I will tell you a secret. There are no water spirits; and these +small Indian boys were surprised by a PUEBLO man who had seen them steal +away from their homes and had decided to frighten them. So he dressed up +to look like the Indians' pictures of a terrible water spirit from the +Rio Grande river, and ran after the boys. + +[Illustration: ONE OF THOSE TERRIBLE WATER SPIRITS] + + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Indian Child Life, by +Edwin Willard Deming and Therese O. 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