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If you are not located in the United States, you -will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before -using this eBook. - -Title: Kwasa the cliff dweller - -Author: Katherine Atherton Grimes - -Illustrator: L. J. Wilson - -Release Date: January 10, 2023 [eBook #69763] - -Language: English - -Produced by: Demian Katz, Craig Kirkwood, and the Online Distributed - Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (Images courtesy - of the Digital Library@Villanova University.) - -*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK KWASA THE CLIFF DWELLER *** - - -Transcriber’s Notes: - -Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_), and text -enclosed by equal signs is in bold (=bold=). - -Additional Transcriber’s Notes are at the end. - - * * * * * - -_Instructor Literature Series--No. 257_ - -Kwasa the Cliff Dweller - -[Illustration] - -_By Katherine Atherton Grimes_ - -F. A. OWEN PUBLISHING COMPANY, DANSVILLE, N. Y. - - * * * * * - -INSTRUCTOR LITERATURE SERIES - - - - -Kwasa the Cliff Dweller - - - BY - _Katherine Atherton Grimes_ - - ILLUSTRATED BY L. J. WILSON - - [Illustration] - - F. A. OWEN PUBLISHING COMPANY, - DANSVILLE, N. Y. - - _Copyright, 1916, by F. A. Owen Publishing Co._ - - * * * * * - -[Illustration: “It was one that few boys would care to -attempt”--_Chapter 2_] - - * * * * * - -Kwasa the Cliff Dweller - - - - -CHAPTER I The Game on the Terrace - - -“It did,” said Kwasa. - -“It didn’t,” said Wiki. - -“But I say there were three reds up,” insisted Kwasa. - -“And I say one of the dice came up white,” argued Wiki. - -“Well,” returned Kwasa good-humoredly, “we will not quarrel about a -game. I will throw again.” - -Catching up the three small sticks of cane, painted red on the hollowed -inner side and white on the upper part, Kwasa tossed them deftly into -the air. They came down all together, landing on the stone pavement -with the white sides up. - -Kwasa gave a cluck of triumph. - -“Three whites; better yet.” Reaching across the stone slab covered -with a pattern of circles and lines which served as a game board, he -carefully moved a white pebble from the mark where it stood to one two -spaces nearer the center of the slab. - -Wiki seized the dice eagerly. “Well done! Now it is my turn.” - -Into the air spun the three sticks again, but as they came down Wiki -saw with disappointment that one showed the white side while the other -two had fallen with the red uppermost. - -“No play,” cried Kwasa. - -“But I have one more throw,” said Wiki, and this time three reds -gleamed against the gray rock floor. - -“One space, anyway,” said Wiki, and this time a red pebble on the -farther side of the slab was set one space nearer the center. - -Kwasa laughed. - -“When I have beaten you I will show you how to hold the dice,” he -boasted playfully. “Old Honau showed me the trick. He can bring down -the white every time.” - -“I am thirsty,” said Wiki, laying down the dice and jumping up. - -“So am I,” said Kwasa, “but it is too far down to the spring. Let us go -to the reservoir.” - -The lads ran lightly across the long, narrow court and climbed a niche -staircase hewn in the rock wall at the back of the cliff. A dozen steps -brought them to the top of the wall, from which they looked down into a -huge hollow in the rock, which appeared to be partly natural and partly -the result of human labor. It was nearly full of water, which fed -slowly into it from a small stream trickling down from the higher side -of the bluff. - -On top of the wall stood a graceful olla, or vase-shaped jar of -pottery, strikingly ornamented with red and black. About the neck was a -short, twisted rope of yucca fiber, long enough to let the jar down to -the water. The boys dropped it down and brought it up full, holding it -carefully that it might not strike the side of the wall. - -“Bah,” said Wiki, tasting it, “it is too warm to drink, now that the -sun is on it. I would rather have gone to the spring.” - -“Come, then,” cried Kwasa, jumping down from the wall. “If we go to the -spring perhaps we may see something of the hunters. It is time they -were returning, my grandmother says.” - -Kwasa told the truth when he said it was a long way to the spring. For -the great rock-built house, or rather cluster of houses, in whose inner -court the boys had been playing, was placed three hundred feet from the -bottom of a canyon in a huge cavern which Nature had left in the face -of the precipitous cliff. Along the outer edge of the cavern, following -the outline of the opening, was a high wall of masonry pierced with -numerous openings that served as doors and windows. So exactly had the -builders matched the color of the rocky cliff face, and so skilfully -was the great structure placed in its lofty niche, that a traveler in -the canyon below could hardly have told it was there at all. - -This outer wall was in some places four stories high. Back of it -the building was terraced down to the floor of the cave, each story -projecting beyond the one above it so that its roof made a sort of -porch for the upper rooms. Rude ladders were everywhere, leading from -each story to the next, for the people who lived in this peculiar -dwelling liked to go up and down from the outside. Each story was -divided into many rooms, most of them rather small, but several near -the center of the structure being of good size. In some of these were -stone fireplaces for cooking, and one, larger than any of the others, -was set apart for ceremonial use. - -Back of the great house, or rather village, for it was the home of -many families, was a long and narrow court running well back under -the sheltering slope of the cavern roof. Here the children could play -and the women could weave and grind and make pottery and mats in -well-guarded safety, for back of them and overhead rose the mighty arch -of the cavern, and between them and the cliff’s edge stood the solid -sandstone structure. - -Where the cave roof slanted down to meet the floor there were other -rooms, built close in under the rock. These were storerooms where food -was kept. In them were great piles of beans and corn, rolls of piki or -paper bread which the women were forever baking over the fireplaces, -and immense quantities of buffalo meat, dried and pounded fine and -laid away between layers of tallow. In one of these rooms was kept -the colored corn and beans used in the sacred rites which were held -at certain times in the ceremonial hall, or in the queer, underground -chamber in the center of the court. - -Above the cavern the cliff rose sheer and unbroken for hundreds of -feet, but below it the rocky wall fell more unevenly to the valley -far below. The vivid brown and yellow and red of the upper expanse -was varied only here and there by clumps of cedar or pinon or scrub -oak, with scattering bunches of yucca and cactus between, but on the -lower slope the vegetation was somewhat more dense. All had the same -reddish-brown tinge, for it had been a long time since the rains of the -last spring had washed away the wind-blown dust which whirled down in -clouds from the bare and forbidding surfaces above. - -Across the canyon rose another bluff, but this was unbroken from top -to bottom by ledge or cavern. To the southwest the canyon swept away -majestically, broadening in the distance to a stretch of comparatively -level land through which, in the rainy season, a small river ran. At -the head of the canyon, some distance to the northeast, was a large -spring of sweet, cold water, which, supplemented by the reservoir at -the back of the cavern, furnished an ample supply for the village. - -Down the steep stairway leading from the village to the valley Kwasa -and Wiki went quickly. A stranger would have had a hard time finding -the half-hidden niches cut in the face of the cliff, but the boys, -sure-footed as mountain goats, were soon in the valley, running eagerly -toward the spring. - -“Hush,” warned Kwasa, suddenly crouching behind a tuft of brown yucca. - -Looking where he pointed, Wiki saw the slender figure of a young man -bending over the spring. He drank eagerly, then taking his cupped -hands, poured the cool water over his dusty limbs as if seeking relief -in its freshness. His face, the boys saw as he turned it toward them, -was weary and seared with the hot, reddish-brown dust, but young and -pleasant, and he did not appear to be much older than themselves. - -“He is none of our people,” whispered Wiki. - -“No, but I like him,” exclaimed the impulsive Kwasa. - -“How do you know?” asked Wiki sharply. “He may be a spy of the Utes for -all we know.” - -“No,” said Kwasa, “for if he were--” - -“Here are the hunters,” cried Wiki joyfully, forgetting all caution and -jumping up as a band of men turned into the canyon from the lower side. - -“They are well laden,” observed Kwasa. “The men of the Snakes never -hunt in vain.” - -The young man at the spring, hearing their voices, suddenly -straightened himself and looked eagerly about. Seeing the boys -running toward the hunting band, he followed slowly, his hand resting -cautiously upon his spear shaft, but his frank, brown face expressing -nothing but friendliness. - - - - -CHAPTER II The Warning - - -The long line of hunters, laden with the game secured by a week’s -vigorous chase, was at the niche stairway before the boys reached them. -Impatient to be in the court when they should arrive, to partake in -the welcoming ceremony, the boys could not wait until the last of the -procession had filed up the dizzy rock steps. Long before, in their -explorations about the canyon, they had discovered another way to reach -the cavern, steeper and more perilous, but entirely passable for boys -whose lives had been spent in scaling cliffs and finding footholds in -all sorts of precarious places. - -Running around a projecting spur and diving through a thicket of scrub -oaks, Kwasa and Wiki were at the second stairway in a moment. It was -one that few boys of to-day would care to attempt. It ran almost -straight up the side of the cliff, and in many places they had to pull -themselves from ledge to ledge by straggling tufts of wiry grass or by -the tough, well-rooted clumps of grease-wood brush. At one spot, to -bridge a particularly smooth and difficult part of the ascent, a pole -with sticks bound upon it at intervals to make a sort of rude ladder -had been swung down from a rocky ledge above. - -Up this dangerous ascent Kwasa led the way nimbly, Wiki following close -behind him. The young stranger, after looking doubtfully for a moment -from the hunting band to the boys, finally plunged through the thicket -and took the steeper path, reaching the top only a moment after Kwasa -and Wiki had landed with a final active spring upon the safe ledge at -the rim of the cavern. - -“I must speak to your chief quickly,” he said gravely, as Kwasa, who -in the excitement had forgotten all about the stranger at the spring, -looked at him in surprise. - -“But,” began Kwasa, “this is no time--” - -“All times are alike when danger threatens,” said the youth -impatiently. “Tell me with whom I should speak.” - -Kwasa pointed to a little group of men who stood a little apart from -the rest, waiting to greet the hunters as they came up, one by one, -over the edge of the cliff. - -“Mosu is a priest,” he said, indicating a tall old man with a band of -flat red and black beads bound about his forehead. “Honau is very wise, -too, and then there is Bimba--” - -But the young stranger had hurried away and was accosting Mosu, the -tall priest, respectfully. Before he had spoken many words the whole -group was listening intently, and in a few minutes the court was hushed -and all came crowding about to see what this unusual interruption might -mean. - -Presently the lad stopped speaking and Mosu held up his hand for -attention. - -“This young man is Sado. He comes from the Seven Cities to bring us -tidings to which it were well to listen, for the Utes are again on the -warpath, and the Buffalo and Fox clans have sent out runners to warn -all to the southward. They reached Walpi yesterday, and from there -this messenger brings us word, that we, too, may be in readiness for an -attack.” - -“But surely we are safe--” - -“They can not reach our village--” - -“We could hold the cliff against a thousand, even--” - -A babel of voices broke out anxiously. Mosu held up his hand again. - -“All you say is true,” he said. “When our fathers came here from -the Great Mesa, driven out by the savages from the far north, they -sought a place where they might rest secure from attack. And here they -found it.” He waved his hand toward the great walls of rock rising -protectingly all about them. - -“But we must eat, and planting time is near. Those who stay in the -village are indeed secure, but what of the men who must plant the seeds -and care for the grain in the far fields? We must say farewell to Waka -(the sun) with full storehouses, and with heaped fuel for the cold days -of winter. And if the thieving Utes swarm down upon our fields and -carry off our corn and beans and squashes, what then? Then there is the -danger while we plant and harvest. The Watcher in the High Tower must -indeed be keen of eye to guard every path that leads to the fields. It -is of these things we must think. And in the meantime,” he broke off -abruptly, “this lad is weary and hungry. See that he has refreshment -and rest. We must not send him back to the Seven Cities to tell of our -ingratitude for a friendly deed.” - -But Sado shook his head. - -“There are many others to warn,” he said earnestly. “I must not stay, -though the thought of rest is tempting. But first I will eat--” - -“Has the Snake Clan no runners?” interrupted Mosu proudly. - -Old Honau stepped out from the group. - -“I am not fleet of foot as when I was young,” he began, “but rather -than suffer this brave lad to go farther without rest, I myself will -take the warning to the farthest clan.” - -But a dozen lads were already pressing forward, Kwasa and Wiki among -them. Motioning Honau kindly aside, four of the tallest and strongest -were quickly chosen, and Mosu, drawing them to one side, had Sado -repeat carefully the message he had brought. - -“The Rainbow people are yonder,” he said, pointing southwestward down -the open canyon. “And the Bear Clan is not far from them. It is a three -days’ journey--” - -“They must take plenty of meat and piki,” called one of the women, -hurrying forward. “We will fill the food-bags well. It is a long way, -but, praise to Waka, the new springs are filling and they cannot suffer -from thirst.” - -Immediately there was a great bustle in the court. Women ran here -and there, bringing new sandals of tough fiber for the feet of the -messengers, and thick woolen blankets for the cool nights in the -canyons. The skin food-bags were quickly filled and strapped over the -slender young shoulders, and Kwasa, as leader, was given a heavy new -spear in addition to the bows and arrows which they all carried. - -At last all was ready, and the lads stood forth to be sprinkled with -the sacred meal from the handsome red and black bowl in Mosu’s hands. - -“The Old Ones be with you,” muttered the priest, as he strewed the meal -in a circle about them, and upon the boys’ bowed heads. - -“Come back quickly,” called many anxious voices as, one by one, the -lads dropped down the niche stairway. Kwasa, the last one to descend, -stooped as he left the court and picked up the three red and white dice -with which he and Wiki had been playing so short a time before. - -“For luck,” he laughed, as he dropped them into the deerskin pouch that -hung at his belt. - -“Luck is in the hands of the Old Ones, not in painted sticks,” muttered -Tcua, the old grandmother of Kwasa, watching the lads with anxious eyes -as they filed down the canyon and out of sight. “May they bring back my -son’s son safely--a good lad--a good lad.” - -And then she went down to grind corn for piki, for waiting in idleness -is hard. - - - - -CHAPTER III In the Season of Planting - - -“The door of the Sun-House is open!” - -From mouth to mouth flew the word, brought at sunrise from the High -Tower far up the cliff where Bimba, the Watcher, kept anxious count of -the days till the planting season should begin. - -As if by magic the court was filled with busy men, women and children. -Waka had come back once more to bring them plenty. It had not been in -vain that every morning and evening they had thrown sacred meal toward -the rising and the setting Sun, beseeching him to return quickly from -his long journey to the south. And now the glad news had come that he -had at last touched the peak far away to the east that marked his final -favor, and they might get the seeds ready. - -Nor was that their only cause of rejoicing. For Kwasa and his -companions had returned the night before, worn and weary from their -long, swift race to the far-off neighbors at the southwest, but -triumphant and proud. They brought word that the Rainbow people and -their near kinsmen, the Bear Clan, were ready at a moment’s notice -to join them against the dreaded common foe, whether Ute or Apache. -Moreover, in the nine days since Sado had left them word had come that -in a terrible battle between the Utes and the Pueblo people of the -Seven Cities the foe had been repulsed with great slaughter, and had -fled, broken and disabled, to their northern mountain fastnesses to -nurse their wounds. For the time the danger of attack was over. - -So, though the older men of the village still felt some anxiety, -the planting was at last to be begun under much more favorable -circumstances than they had feared. The women chatted gayly as they -brought out the precious seeds to be sorted, sharpened new planting -sticks, and baked great sheets of piki to pack in the big food-baskets -that were to go with the planters to the distant fields. The children -tumbled about on the terraces or played games in the angles of the gray -walls, even they noticing the relief in the air which had been so full -of dire rumors. - -But Kwasa and Wiki, with their two companions, were more excited than -any of the rest. For their service as messengers they were to be -“adopted,” or consecrated, into the rank of men, and henceforth would -take a dignified place in the Clan, though they were some years younger -than usual for such an honor. For the first time they were to witness -the invocation of the mysterious deities of the cloud and the sun, -which took place in the kiva, the sacred underground chamber whose -hatchway opened into the court. Mosu, who as head priest was the person -of supreme authority on such occasions, had even promised them that -they might act as novices at the annual ceremony of the Blessing of the -Seeds. - -When the boys were not following Mosu about they lingered in fascinated -anticipation about the sloping entrance to the kiva, through which -protruded the long ends of the ladder leading to the depths below. -They had many times descended through the trap-door on the surface to -the great, dusky chamber of the kiva, but never had they been allowed -to witness any of the sacred rites, except such as were held in the -court and were open to women and children. And now that they were to be -admitted as men to the significant symbolism of the ancient service, -they felt awed and excited by turns. - -Kwasa’s grandmother, old Tcua, had long ago told him the mystic -tradition of the Creation, whose sacred story was perpetuated by the -solemn ceremonies in the dimly lighted chamber. And now, in awed tones, -Kwasa repeated it to Wiki and the others as they sat huddled in an -angle of the lower terrace near the opening to the kiva. - -“There were no people then--there were only animals. They lived far -under the ground in dark caves. But the Old Ones heard them moaning and -crying in the dark. They heard the fox, and the bear, and the duck, and -the wolf, all crying, crying in the dark. And they were sorry.” - -Old as the tale was, the boys listened with breathless interest. - -“So the Old Ones dropped a seed through sipapuh[1] and immediately up -sprang a wonderful stalk of corn. It grew up, and up, and up, until at -last its head rose into the sunlight of the Upper World. Then, one at a -time, the fox, and the wolf, and the duck, and all the other animals -and birds, came up the great stalk and stood in the light of Waka, the -Sun. And they were no longer animals, but men and women. We must never -forget this, or the Old Ones will forget us, and we would once more be -animals, back in the middle of the earth, crying and moaning for the -light.” - -“But what of the snakes?” whispered Wiki. “My father says there are -more than a hundred in the kisi.” He nodded toward a brush-covered -shelter near the kiva. - -“Hush,” replied Kwasa, looking furtively about. “They are the -prayer-bearers, and carry to the Old Ones the prayers of the Snake Clan -for rain, that the crop may thrive. But we must not speak of that now; -it is not well to talk too much of the gods so near the place where -they dwell.” - - -FOOTNOTE: - -[1] A cavity in the floor of the kiva represented the lower world. -Over this was placed a stone slab with a round hole in the middle, -which was called sipapuh, and represented the outlet through which the -ancestral beings emerged. - - - - -CHAPTER IV The Rites in the Kiva - - -For an hour Kwasa had been sitting stiffly on the stone ledge that ran -around the outer wall of the kiva, trying to get used to the smothering -mask Mosu had put over his head. This mask was a gorgeously painted -affair representing the head of a duck. Feathers of green and black -were fastened to the crest, and a huge bill of yellow cane projected -from the mouthpiece. In it Kwasa became for the time a Katcina, or one -of the supernatural beings which mediate between gods and men. As a -Katcina he represented one of the ancestral forms which had emerged -from the Lower World upon the day of Creation. - -A tunic of cotton cloth reached to his knees. It was brown, and upon -it were painted zigzag white lines representing lightning. Over one -shoulder was a yellow scarf upon which the same design was repeated, -and on his feet were beautifully beaded moccasins, over which his -grandmother had bent for weeks, that they might be ready when the time -should come for her favorite’s adoption into the ranks of the men. -Around his neck, securely tied in a little buckskin bag, hung a charm, -an exquisite turquoise, blue as the spring skies and half as large as a -swallow’s egg. Old Tcua had fastened this on with trembling fingers as -Kwasa left her to descend to the kiva, saying as she did so: - -“It is for luck. My father had it from an Antelope priest far to the -south. It is yours from this day.” - -But Tcua did not know that Kwasa had another charm which to his boyish -imagination was more potent than the turquoise. Fastened in a fold of -his belt were three red and white sticks of cane, and as the lad sat -waiting on the ledge in the kiva he said to himself: - -“I am glad I kept the dice: they have brought me much of good.” - -He felt something thrust into his hand, and looking at it as closely -as he could through the eye-slits in his mask, he saw it was a -prayer-plume, or a short stick to which were fastened four feathers, -white for the north, red for the east, yellow for the west and green -for the south. This he knew he was to carry in the solemn ceremonies to -follow, as an invocation to the deities who dwell at the four quarters -of the earth. - -“Come,” said the masked figure that had brought the prayer-plume, “the -gods wait for us.” - -At the word, Kwasa slipped down from his seat and took his place in a -long line of youths and men which was being formed at one end of the -kiva. He saw Wiki, also carrying a prayer-plume, and wearing a beaver’s -mask. In the weird, flickering light from the fire at one end of the -chamber he could not distinguish many that he knew, and this, together -with the strangeness of the sacred mysteries in which he was about to -play a part, awed and half frightened him. - -As the line formed the participants stamped softly upon the ground with -their moccasined feet, not advancing, but marking time to a wild and -monotonous chant which was accentuated by the rattling of small gourds -in the hands of the priests and their throaty “hi-yi-yi” as they moved -with cat-like tread about the sipapuh in the middle of the kiva. - -At last the line began to move forward. Mosu took his place at the -head and led it around the outer edge of the kiva, close to the ledge. -Round and round they marched, each time drawing a little closer to the -sipapuh. At last they formed a compact row about the sacred opening, -and in this way encircled it four times more, each in passing stamping -his foot on the stone slab as a hint to the listening gods that their -attention was asked. At last, at a sign from Mosu, the line halted. - -And now came the supreme moment. The participant who was to be most -highly honored was to be chosen to hold the sacred bowl above the -sipapuh while from the mouth of the great snake effigy which was -suspended from above should drop the Kawa-blessed seeds for planting. -Everyone in the circle fixed his eyes upon Mosu, each secretly hoping -that some deed of his own might be thought worthy such honored -recognition. - -Kwasa held his breath with the rest, wondering which one of all -the line should be adjudged the most worthy. And for a moment the -tumultuous beating of his heart made him faint and dizzy as Mosu, -beckoning to him and speaking his name, put the great red and black -bowl in his hands. - -[Illustration: “Trembling till he could hardly stand, Kwasa extended -his arms until the bowl was directly above the opening.”] - -Trembling till he could hardly stand, Kwasa, at a sign from the priest, -extended his arms until the bowl was directly above the opening in -the slab and under the swinging head of the hollow effigy above. Then -through the tube came the seeds, first the yellow and white corn, -then the beans, the squash and melons, greenish cotton seeds and -rich-smelling brown grains of wheat. At last, when the bowl was nearly -full, there was poured down the colored corn for the sacred meal, -rounding and covering the rest. - -Then Mosu motioned Kwasa to stand to one side, while Wiki was called -forward and given a similar bowl. Delighted at his friend’s good -fortune, Kwasa hardly heard the muttered congratulations that greeted -him as he stepped back into the circle. But stealthily fingering his -belt he patted the three red and white canes, telling himself that his -own luck and Wiki’s had been unchangeably entwined since the day they -had tossed the dice in the court. - -But he had not time for more than a fleeting thought even for such -momentous things, for something else was happening above the sipapuh. -This time the attendant at the hatchway of the kiva poured through the -snake effigy into the sacred bowl a small stream of water, signifying -that thus would the snake deities of the clouds bless the planted seeds. - -At another sign from Mosu, Wiki stepped back into the circle, and Kwasa -came forward to distribute to each person a handful of the Kawa-blessed -seeds. Then, taking a short stick tipped with stiff turkey feathers, -Mosu sprinkled the water from Wiki’s bowl to the six cardinal points, -north, east, south, west, the zenith and the nadir. - -And the ceremony of the Blessing of Seeds was over. - -Kwasa was glad to get out of the stifling air of the kiva and follow -the rest up the ladder into the court above, where the final great -rain-prayer rite was to be performed. In this he had no part, though he -still retained his mask and personated the pawik (duck) katcina in the -great circle that made the background for the principal actors. - -Into this circle marched the long line of Snake and Antelope priests, -participants in this supreme drama of the year. Very awe-inspiring -they looked, their bodies rubbed with red paint, their blackened chins -rimmed with a broad line of white and their bare arms glittering with -barbaric ornaments. To a sort of hissing chant they marched about an -improvised sipapuh which had been located in the broadest part of the -court, shaking their rattles and stamping their feet upon the slab as -they passed. Four times they made the circuit, as in the ceremony in -the kiva, then suddenly breaking into groups of three they rushed to -the bush-covered kisi near the end of the circle. A group stopped for -a moment before this shrine, and in a moment proceeded, the foremost -priest, one of the Snake Clan, carrying in his mouth a squirming -snake. The Antelope priest who followed him, in an apparent frenzy of -excitement, waved a feathered prayer-stick to and fro to attract the -reptile’s attention, but the snake only coiled the more tightly about -the head and shoulders of the carrier. One after another each group -paused at the kisi and secured one of the wriggling reptiles. - -Round and round they marched, and then, at a sign from Mosu, an -attendant suddenly darted forward and outlined a circle on the floor -with sacred meal. Into this the snakes were dropped, to be sprinkled -with meal as they fell. A wild scramble ensued, and in a few minutes -the snakes were recaptured by the third priests of the groups, who -darted across the court and down the niche stairway to replace the -reptiles in their native dens. From there they would carry the prayers -for rain to the deities of the clouds, the lightning and the thunder, -who would thus be brought to bless the crops and insure abundance for -the coming year. - -“And now we are done with games,” said Wiki softly, as he and Kwasa -descended the ladder into the kiva to remove their masks and deposit -their prayer-plumes before the sanded altar at the end of the chamber. - -“Yes,” returned Kwasa soberly, “but I shall keep the dice. They have -brought us good luck.” - - - - -CHAPTER V In the Far Fields - - -Spring in the canyons! How good the warm, moist air felt after the -rains, and how bright and fresh the young grass looked along the little -river so far below the cliff village. The rusty red of the pinons and -oaks, and of the dull little cedars, too, had been turned to deep, rich -green, and the yucca tufts which clambered bravely almost to the top of -the gorge were sending up new lances of vivid color. Life was in the -air, and it stirred even the oldest people of the cliff village to a -keen interest in the year’s greatest event. - -There was a great stir in the court. On every terrace, too, were girls -and women at work, tying the sharp new ironwood planting sticks into -bundles and shelling the sacred colored corn which was to be planted in -a specially prepared corner of the field. Great baskets and bags were -filled with food: piki, and pounded acorns baked in sheets with meal, -and strips of hard, dry meat. There were cakes of buffalo meat, too, -pounded fine, and bags of dried peaches, and beans for eating as well -as planting. For from now on until the crop was ready for harvest men -must stay in the far-away fields to guard as well as work. - -For the first time Kwasa and Wiki were to go with the men. They -strutted about the plaza importantly, one minute imitating the stately -manners of Honau and the other men, the next strongly tempted to join -in the games of leap-frog and hunt-the-deer that were being carried on -in the crannies of the great building. Strong as the temptation was, -however, they would not have yielded to it for the world, lest in the -eyes of the other lads they should lose some of their newly acquired -dignity. - -The great field lay far away to the south of the village, beyond -where the canyon opened out into the wider valley. For many years the -same ground had been cultivated by the Clan, and on every side were -evidences of the painstaking and careful work that had made possible -the abundance of grain the Cliff people had enjoyed from year to year. -On a gentle slope beyond the field was a scattering orchard of peach -trees, each carefully placed in some particularly fertile spot. From -a great rock reservoir on the hill above, a ditch ran down to the -fields, separating as it reached the edge into many small passways for -water, which could thus be turned upon the growing crop should the -gods, whose aid had been so earnestly invoked, neglect to send rain -enough. Along the lower edge of the field ran a long, low clay wall or -ledge, designed to keep the water thus led into the planted land from -wasting by running too far down the slope. - -How good the brown earth smelled as the sharp planting sticks turned -up the moist soil to make fine, soft beds for the precious seeds. -Where the soil was heavy and came up in clods, old Honau, the master -of the planting, showed Kwasa and Wiki how to follow behind the seed -scatterers and smash the lumps with stone mauls tied to the ends of -long sticks. They were instructed, too, how to clean the winter’s wash -of mud out of the waterways, and how to repair the lower wall where it -had washed away. - -[Illustration: Cliff men going down to work in the fields. The watch -tower is seen in the background.] - -A round tower built of sandstone blocks stood on a jutting point of -rock far above the fertile valley. Adjoining it was a low, oblong -room fitted with two small openings. This was both guard and shelter. -From the tower a watcher kept constant lookout, for the men were far -from home and unprotected by natural walls, as they were in the cliff -village, and a sudden rush of enemies from any of the many intersecting -canyons might result in a terrible loss of life. The watcher was not -Bimba, however, who could not be spared from the watch tower above the -village, where long usage had made him familiar with every crack and -crevice of the hills and valleys within the sweep of his sharp eyes, -until not even a rabbit could cross an open spot undiscovered. Now that -the men were gone it was more important than ever to have a trusted and -experienced watcher to guard the women and children. So the guardian -in the tower above the great field was not Bimba, but Haida, who, next -after the veteran himself, had the sharpest eyes in the clan. - -No alarm came, however, to mar the joy of the planting time. Day after -day the men worked on, cleaning away every weed and bush as they went, -and seeing that every one of the treasured seeds had its proper chance -to grow and thrive. For upon the crop must depend the lives of all -the next winter. Though they went on occasional long hunts, the Cliff -men were not, like their neighbors and enemies, the Utes and Apaches, -dependent upon game for the greater part of their living. Corn was -the main food of the people of the cliffs, and whether parched to be -eaten whole, or ground in three-parted stone metates to be made into -the great thin sheets of piki, or paper bread, it formed the staff of -life for them. Hence the great importance of every seed-grain, for the -winters in the canyons were long and there were many mouths to feed. - -There were long days of work, and weary nights when the men lay down -in the stone shelter adjoining the watch tower with aching muscles but -hopeful hearts; but at last every seed was in. The irrigating channels -were straight and clean, and the reservoir, as they had ascertained, -was two-thirds full of water. Even so soon the favor of the gods seemed -sure, for twice since the planting had begun good rains had fallen, -leaving the earth dark and mellow and rich with promise. - -There must be one more thing done, however, before they could return -to the village for the short stay possible between the planting and -the working of the crop. Two days before a messenger had been sent to -tell Mosu that the planting was nearly done, and hardly was the last -row finished when they saw him coming. In his hands he carried a bowl -of sacred meal, and upon his forehead was the mystic raincloud symbol, -colored, like the feathers in the prayer-plume an attendant carried -behind him, with red, green, yellow, and white pigments. His tunic of -beautifully-dressed deerskin was also decorated with the symbols of the -cloud and the sun, while the snake-like lightning symbols were painted -in white upon his powerful brown arms. A second attendant bore a great -bundle of prayer-plumes, and a third a bowl of water and a short, stiff -brush of turkey feathers. - -Solemnly the planters met Mosu as he came toward them. Falling into -line behind him they marched solemnly around the field, and back to -the center where a hole had been dug and a stone slab placed over -it in imitation of the sipapuh in the kiva. Here they formed into a -hollow square, each side facing a point of the compass. The attendant -distributed the prayer-plumes, which each man held high in his left -hand as Mosu scattered the sacred meal to north, east, south and -west, the zenith and the nadir. Then into the bowl of water he dipped -the turkey-feather brush, sprinkling the earth toward the cardinal -points. Marching about the improvised sipapuh each man stamped upon -it in passing. Then, stooping reverently, they laid the prayer-plumes -underneath the slab that covered the excavation, and the ceremony was -over. - -“I wonder where Sado is,” said Wiki suddenly, as the boys passed the -spring at the head of the canyon on their way home. - -“I hope we may see him again some time,” returned Kwasa. “Do you -suppose he has danced in the kiva yet?” - -“Sometimes I wish we had not been ‘adopted,’” said Wiki almost -regretfully, “for I would like to throw the dice again.” - -“Well, why not?” laughed Kwasa. “The men play at that game, and I have -never shown you old Honau’s trick. Besides, here are the dice. Let us -hurry home.” - - - - -CHAPTER VI The Luck of the Dice - - -The summer passed pleasantly in the village of the Cliff. When the men -went to the field to work the women often accompanied them, helping in -the cultivation of the crop and gathering the wild berries and edible -plants that grew in profusion in the fertile valley. In baskets swung -from their heads by woven and padded bands they carried the ripened -peaches up the steep stairs, spreading them out along the stone ledges -to dry. - -There was other work, too, that must be done while the weather was -warm and pleasant. New earthenware bowls must be made while they could -be baked in the summer sun. Garments of soft, exquisitely wrought -feather-cloth, and of fur strips wound on heavy cords and woven into -fabric, must be made ready for cold weather. There were new rooms to be -built, too, for the rapidly increasing population of the village made -the old quarters too crowded for winter comfort. So the men brought -great gray and brown rocks from the slopes of the canyon, carrying them -suspended from head bands as the women carried their baskets. These -were carefully chipped and dressed with the great stone mauls, and set -evenly and squarely into place, held there by layers of mortar which -no one except old Honau knew how to mix. Then the women made a thin, -plaster-like cement from colored earths and spread it on with their -hands, smoothing it down with many careful pats which left the prints -of slender brown fingers in many places on the wet wall. Sometimes the -rooms were brightened by wavy red and yellow lines running bandwise -just below the ceiling; sometimes they were decorated with sacred -symbols such as might bring a peculiar blessing to the household -living in them. But always, whatever the inside might be, the outside -was cunningly wrought to look like the forbidding walls of the cliff, -gray, and dull yellow and brown, with here and there mottled patches of -subdued red, so that an enemy might have hard work to spy them out in -passing through the canyon below. - -It was nearly harvest time, and the corn was already ripening. Day -after day the watcher in the field tower, keen-eyed Haida, had reported -everything well, until the last lurking fears of even the old men were -almost forgotten. The storerooms were being repaired and made ready for -the new crop, and the men were working on a larger granary, or storage -cist, some distance below the level of the cavern, where the heavy -baskets of corn might be emptied without carrying them up the last -steep third of the ascent. - -Then, early one morning, a wild-eyed messenger from the field tower -came hurtling up the niche stairs in the gray light to report evil -tidings. A band of savages, of what race he could not say, had ridden -their fleet ponies down through the canyons that night, carrying off -and trampling down a considerable part of the precious crop. And -what was worse, they had raided the very tower itself and had left -Haida, whose practised eyes had failed to see them in the moon-blinded -lower trail, silent on his face with an arrow between his shoulders. -The messenger himself had escaped only by dropping quickly into the -farthest shadow of the adjoining shelter-room and lying motionless -against the darkest wall until the last sound of the ponies’ drumming -feet had died away in the distance. - -Mosu quieted the panic-stricken people who crowded about him in the -early light as well as he could. One thing was sure, if the people of -the Cliff were not to starve when the cold days came, the rest of the -crop must be saved. Wisely seeing in vigorous action the best remedy -for fear, he hastily organized men and women into bands for taking care -of what was left of the grain, giving to the women the actual work of -gathering that the men might be left free to protect them. - -So, leaving the old men and smaller boys to look after the village, and -with many cautions to Bimba to keep speedy messengers always ready to -carry news of danger, the harvest bands went silently down the steep -stairs and passed swiftly through the canyons to the great field. -Once there, no time was lost in stripping the ears from the stalks -and piling them into the wide-mouthed baskets which the women carried -on their backs, and in cutting down the stalks with keen-edged flint -knives to be carried home in bundles on the shoulders of the big boys. -The wheat-heads were hastily snatched from their stems, to be shelled -out by busy fingers in the leisure hours of winter. They worked in -nervous haste, casting fearful glances up and down the canyon at every -turn. From the tower the new watchman who had taken dead Haida’s place -strained his eyes anxiously into vague distances, intent upon guarding, -even to his own death, those lives so dependent upon his vigilance. - -Swiftly as they worked, and quickly as the many trips to and from the -village were made, it was many days before all the crop was safe and -the people could breathe more easily in their well-guarded cavern home. -But the old air of careless gayety was gone, and in its place was a -constant atmosphere of apprehension. No one knew when the bold savages, -encouraged by their success in the valley, might not undertake even so -difficult a task as the storming of the cliff fastness. Rumors, too, -were constantly afloat of murderous attacks on smaller outlying cliff -dwellings, and once a small party that had been down the canyon to look -for wild gourds came upon the body of a Cliffman, apparently from one -of those distant houses, lying stiff with a Ute arrow in his breast. - -In a consultation of the old men it was at last decided that the best -thing to be done was to send messengers to the Rainbow and Bear Clans -on the south, which were probably so far free from attack, and to the -Seven Cities on the North, asking them to be ready to send aid should -the threatened danger fall. Mosu, standing stern and tall in the middle -of the court, told the people of this decision and asked for messengers. - -“The Walpi road is a dangerous one,” he said, “to be undertaken by no -one who is afraid to lose his life. He must go alone, for one is as -safe as ten, and we have no lives to risk without great reason. I would -not willingly send any forth to such chance of death, but if one will -offer himself--” - -Before he could finish the sentence fifty men and youths had stepped -forward. Mosu looked at them with proud sadness. - -“Your lives are precious to us,” he said, his eyes kindling, “and there -are many among you who cannot be spared. Let those who have wives and -children step back, for them we cannot lose.” - -Reluctantly more than half of those who had come forth drew back again. -There remained only the young men, straight, supple, earnest-eyed lads -who were the very flower of the village. In their brown faces was no -sign of fear. Mosu scanned them, one by one, his lips set in a thin -line, his eyes tenderly kind. - -“It is danger we offer you,” he said slowly, “but it is also the -greatest honor we can give. Choose among yourselves who shall be sent, -for you know your own worth.” - -Kwasa stepped forward eagerly. - -“Let us toss the dice,” he begged, “and hang our fortunes on the first -who shall throw the whites.” - -Mosu thought a moment. The idea appealed to him in two ways; for one -thing, it removed from anyone the responsibility of sending a comrade -forth to possible death, and for another he knew the gambling spirit -was strong in every Cliffman’s breast and the decision of the dice -would never be disputed. - -“Who has dice?” asked Mosu, turning to the onlookers. - -Kwasa undid a fold of his belt and gave the priest the three sticks of -cane he had carried so long. - -Mosu handed them to the boy who stood nearest. He tossed them -nervously, amid a breathless silence. As they came down showing two -reds and one white, a woman on the lower terrace gave a sobbing cry. -Turning toward her, his lip quivering with disappointment, the lad saw -his mother, and bounded across the court to where she sat. - -“The gods be praised--they have not taken my son from me,” she said, -throwing her arms about his neck. - -“But I would have served them well,” he cried, trying hard to keep back -unmanly tears. - -One after another the youths came forward to try their fortunes with -the dice. But no one threw the whites together. Wiki, trembling with -eagerness, found them at his feet with all the red sides up, and gave -place to Kwasa, who came next. - -Carefully placing the sticks in his fingers, and with a quick glance at -old Honau, who stood watching with much interest, Kwasa spun the dice -high in the air. And when they came down every one knew that the danger -and the honor had fallen to Kwasa by the favor of the gods. Tcua, his -old grandmother, scorning the weakness that fought its way to her moist -eyes, called him proudly to her side and touched the turquoise at his -throat. - -“You will come back safe--it is a charm,” she said confidently. - -But once more Kwasa hid the cane strips carefully in his belt. - -“Yes, I will come back safe--for I have a charm,” he said, smiling. - -So Kwasa took the long trail toward the Seven Cities alone and in the -dark, for so it was thought best, since he knew the first part of the -way well and would need daylight more after coming to the unknown -country. And because he had thrown the chance of next value, Wiki was -given the place of lesser honor, because of lesser danger, that of -messenger to the Clans of the Rainbow and the Bear. - - - - -CHAPTER VII On the Walpi Trail - - -If Kwasa had not felt so proud of the honor that had been shown him, -he might have feared to go down the long, dark canyons alone. But, -boylike, his thoughts were not so much on the danger of his task as -they were upon the rewards he might hope for when it was done, for he -knew the people of the Cliffs would pay royal honors where they were -due. And he never thought of failure, for surely one so high in favor -with the gods could not fail, however great the task. - -So Kwasa picked his way with a light heart along the first well-known -part of the journey. He wanted to be far from home by daybreak, and -ready to undertake the unknown paths where he would need all his -sharpness of sight to keep the right direction. He had received many -and definite instructions from the old men, who knew the Walpi road -well, and he felt confident of his ability to reach the Seven Cities -without loss of time. - -The sun came up, hot and strong, just as he emerged from the shadows of -the last wooded canyon and stepped forth upon the wide-spaced plateau -that stretched away toward Walpi. There was no chance for cover now, -he realized, a little startled at the thought, for he had not before -considered this difference between a trail on the plateau and one -through the canyons. If he had not been afraid both of delay and of -losing the trail if he should attempt to follow it by night he would -have liked to lie down in a hidden nook and wait for dusk again rather -than to run the risk of a race across such open and dangerous country -by day. But he knew no time should be lost, so, eating his breakfast -from his food-bag as he went along, he swung forward with the long, -easy strides of one who is accustomed to travel much by foot. - -It was the middle of the forenoon when a fitful gust of wind brought -a strange, regular, pounding sound to his ears. He could not think -what it was. Again it came, louder than before, a sharp, ringing -“clickety-clicket,” that brought him to a standstill. Then, too late -for flight or any chance of concealment, he recognized the sound as -one that he had never heard more than once or twice in his life--the -beating of hard-ridden ponies’ hoofs. - -In another minute he saw them coming, a cloud of dark, terrible riders -in fantastic head-dress, with their almost naked bodies horribly -striped and scarred. At a glance he knew them, though his only idea -of them had been formed from the tales he had heard the men tell, and -in the same moment gave himself up for lost. For they were the hated -enemies whose awful deeds made the blood run cold at the barest thought -of them--the Utes of the northeastern mountains. - -[Illustration: Kwasa knew they had seen him.] - -Kwasa knew they had seen him, so, giving up the hope of hiding which -had flitted momentarily through his mind, he determined to stand his -ground and sell his life as dearly as he could. He ran a few steps -from the trail and placed his back against a jutting ledge of rock, at -the same time drawing his bow and setting one of his sharpest arrows. -Hardly had he time to make even this scanty preparation when they were -upon him, a yelling, death-dealing whirlwind of fiendish faces and -quick-footed, fiery-eyed ponies. - -With an agonized thought of home, of the trust in which he now must -fail, and of the terrible danger which was sweeping down upon the Cliff -people, he drew his arrow back to the head. Excited as he was, he took -steady aim, and a painted warrior slid limply from his pony’s neck and -rolled over in the dust. As he hastily fitted another arrow he felt a -stinging pain in his throat, his hand lost its strength, the sky reeled -about him and turned dark--and then he knew no more. - -When he came to himself again he lay where he had fallen on his face -in the red dust of the plateau. How sick and dizzy he felt! His first -thought was to wonder how he came there; the next to remember that the -Utes were headed straight for the canyons, on what awful errand he did -not dare to think. He knew the Cliff village could be held for some -time, but would not these fiendish foes at last be able to overcome the -peaceful, unwarlike men of the Cliffs, no matter what their advantages -might be? Help must be brought, and brought quickly. A glance at the -sun assured him that he had not long lain unconscious, even though -he knew he must have been left for dead. With a great effort he -pulled himself to his feet. How black the sunlight grew! And what -was that queer, choking thing that seemed to be gripping him by the -throat? Putting up his hand, he felt the shaft of an arrow which had -pierced his neck, running through until the point projected above his -shoulders. With a shudder he tried to pull it out, but the pain turned -him sick again. Then, too, even through the turmoil of his thoughts he -realized that to remove the arrow would mean a great and weakening loss -of blood. So, blinded and choking as he was, the brave lad stumbled -along as fast as he could, imploring the gods to give him strength to -reach Walpi and send aid to his people before he should die. - -It seemed ages before he saw the dark outlines of the pueblo of Walpi -rising above the rounded crest of the mesa. But it was not so far from -where he fell after all, for he had been nearer than he believed when -the attack occurred. He could never quite remember how things happened -after that. He had a vague memory of Sado’s voice calling out in sharp -surprise, of telling his story quickly between the gasps of his failing -breath, and of a sudden great bustle in the court of the pueblo. -Only one thing he remembered distinctly, the sudden idea that flashed -through his mind at sight of Sado. - -“The hidden path,” he gasped, “tell them to take the hidden path. It -will bring them up from the back. No one knows it except--except--” and -here in spite of himself his voice trailed off into silence and the -blindness that was worse than midnight came over his eyes again. - -As in a dream he heard Sado’s excited reply: - -“I know--I know--I will lead them. Have no fear, for we will save your -people yet!” - -And then gentle hands laid him down, and he thought no more except that -it was very good to rest. - -The terrible Battle of the Cliffs had been fought and done for many -weeks before Kwasa was strong enough to hear about it. For the arrow -in his throat had come very near indeed to causing his death, and only -the tender nursing of careful and practised hands could have brought -him back to life and strength again. There was one pair of slim, soft -hands that he always knew, even through his delirium, so gentle and -capable were they, and so soothingly did they place upon his poor, -torn throat the cooling poultices of pounded herbs. After he grew able -to think again he fell to wondering what the face would be like that -belonged with such dear, gentle fingers; but so weary and listless was -he that even after the thought came it was a long time before he opened -his eyes to see. But when he did look up into the beautiful young face -that bent so anxiously above him, he knew that one of two things would -surely happen--either he would stay at Walpi forever, or he would not -go back to the canyons alone. - -And that day Kwasa heard the story of the Battle of the Cliffs. It -was Sado who told it, helping the words with vivid gestures of his -long, brown fingers. He told how bravely the men of the village had -held their own for many long and fearful hours, even against the -death-bearing poisoned arrows of their foes; and how, hard pressed as -they were and overwhelmed by numbers, as the Utes swarmed up the niche -stairway, the men who stood along the ledge sold their lives at a -heavy price. And then, just as the Utes were sounding their wild whoop -of final victory, and were pressing upward unchecked over the narrow -stair, so slippery with the horrible slime of blood, the fresh band of -fighters which Sado had led secretly up the hidden path sounded their -battle cry from the back of the long court into which they had come -unseen. At this the savages had wavered a moment in surprise, and then, -seeing the lithe brown bodies of the men of Walpi, whose prowess they -knew of old, had broken and fled, many of them losing their foothold -and falling down the face of the cliff to a horrible death on the rocks -below. And just then had come up from the south the bands from the -Rainbow and Bear Clans, summoned by Wiki, and before the sun had set -upon the narrow valley the grass was stained with a deeper red than -that of the red dust. Only two Ute horsemen were able to break through -the terrible ring of death that shut them in and get away on their -fleet ponies. And that, said Sado, was just as it should be, for with -the story of that disastrous fight as a warning it would be long before -the northern tribes would attempt to take revenge. - -The day came at last when Kwasa was strong enough to go back to his -people. Glad as he was at the thought of seeing them all again, a -greater gladness lay at his heart--a joy even greater than all the -honor that his grateful people were waiting to give could bring. For -Ani, the gentle sister of Sado, who had nursed the stricken messenger -so faithfully and well, was easily persuaded that her services might -still be needed by her brave young patient. So she decided to go back -across the mesas and down the cool, dusky canyon paths with him, lest -evil should again befall him. - -So it happened that when the rejoicing people of the Cliffs came down -the niche stairway to welcome their honored hero, they took also to -their grateful hearts the dark-eyed girl who had saved him from death -for them. And not the less did they love her because she was the sister -of Sado, who had brought them help in their hour of greatest need. - -“But what of Wiki?” said Kwasa, when they would have overwhelmed him -with loving honors. - -“He has had his share,” answered Wiki himself, pressing the hand of -his old playfellow affectionately. “Besides, my little deed needed no -honor, since it did not require a particularly stout heart to run an -errand where there was no danger. Yet Mosu has promised me no less a -gift than that I should lead the dance of the priests in his own place -at the next Blessing of Seeds. And he says he will make a priest of -me when the time comes. Besides--” he paused in some confusion, and -beckoned to a pretty brown maiden who stood not far away. - -“Besides?” prompted Kwasa with a smile. - -“Not all the maidens in the world dwell on the mesa of the Seven -Cities,” blurted out Wiki, taking the girl’s slender fingers in his own. - -Kwasa laughed, then his face grew grave. - -“Yet it was well for me that one maid dwelt there,” he said softly, -looking up into Ani’s sweet face with adoring eyes. - - * * * * * - -INSTRUCTOR LITERATURE SERIES - -7c--Supplementary Readers and Classics for all Grades--7c - -☞ _This list is constantly being added to. If a substantial number of -books are to be ordered, or if other titles than those shown here are -desired, send for latest list._ - -FIRST GRADE - -Fables and Myths - - *6 Fairy Stories of the Moon--_Maguire_ - *27 Eleven Fables from Æsop--_Reiter_ - *28 More Fables from Æsop--_Reiter_ - *29 Indian Myths--_Bush_ - *140 Nursery Tales--_Taylor_ - *288 Primer from Fableland--_Maguire_ - -Nature - - *1 Little Plant People--Part I--_Chase_ - *2 Little Plant People--Part II--_Chase_ - *30 Story of a Sunbeam--_Miller_ - *31 Kitty Mittens and Her Friends--_Chase_ - -History - - *32 Patriotic Stories--_Reiter_ - -Literature - - *104 Mother Goose Reader--_Faxon_ - *228 First Term Primer--_Maguire_ - *230 Rhyme and Jingle Reader for Beginners - *245 Three Billy Goats Gruff and Other Stories - -SECOND GRADE - -Fables and Myths - - *33 Stories from Andersen--_Taylor_ - *34 Stories from Grimm--_Taylor_ - *36 Little Red Riding Hood--_Reiter_ - *37 Jack and the Beanstalk--_Reiter_ - *38 Adventures of a Brownie--_Reiter_ - -Nature and Industry - - *3 Little Workers (Animal Stories)--_Chase_ - *39 Little Wood Friends--_Mayne_ - *40 Wings and Stings--_Halifax_ - *41 Story of Wool--_Mayne_ - *42 Bird Stories from the Poets--_Jollie_ - -History and Biography - - *43 Story of the Mayflower--_McCabe_ - *45 Boyhood of Washington--_Reiter_ - *204 Boyhood of Lincoln--_Reiter_ - -Literature - - *72 Bow-Wow and Mew-Mew--_Craik_ - *152 Child’s Garden of Verses--_Stevenson_ - *206 Picture Study Stories for Little Children - *220 Story of the Christ Child--_Hushower_ - *262 Four Little Cotton Tails--_Smith_ - *268 Four Little Cotton Tails in Winter--_Smith_ - *269 Four Little Cotton Tails at Play--_Smith_ - *270 Four Little Cotton Tails in Vacation--_Smith_ - *290 Fuzz in Japan--A Child Life Reader - *300 Four Little Bushy Tails--_Smith_ - *301 Patriotic Bushy Tails--_Smith_ - *302 Tinkle Bell and Other Stories--_Smith_ - *303 The Rainbow Fairy--_Smith_ - *308 Story of Peter Rabbit--_Potter_ - -THIRD GRADE - -Fables and Myths - - *46 Puss in Boots and Cinderella--_Reiter_ - *47 Greek Myths--_Klingensmith_ - *48 Nature Myths--_Metcalfe_ - *50 Reynard the Fox--_Best_ - *102 Thumbelina and Dream Stories--_Reiter_ - *146 Sleeping Beauty and Other Stories - 174 Sun Myths--_Reiter_ - 175 Norse Legends, I--_Reiter_ - 176 Norse Legends, II--_Reiter_ - *177 Legends of the Rhineland--_McCabe_ - *282 Siegfried and Other Rhine Legends - *289 The Snow Man and Other Stories - *292 East of the Sun and West of the Moon - -Nature and Industry - - *49 Buds, Stems and Fruits--_Mayne_ - *51 Story of Flax--_Mayne_ - *52 Story of Glass--_Hanson_ - *53 Story of a Little Water Drop--_Mayne_ - *133 Aunt Martha’s Corner Cupboard--Part I. Story of Tea and the - Teacup - *135 Little People of the Hills--_Chase_ - *137 Aunt Martha’s Corner Cupboard--Part II. Story of Sugar, Coffee - and Salt - *138 Aunt Martha’s Corner Cupboard--Part III. Story of Rice, Currants - and Honey - *203 Little Plant People of the Waterways--_Chase_ - -History and Biography - - *4 Story of Washington--_Reiter_ - *7 Story of Longfellow--_McCabe_ - *21 Story of the Pilgrims--_Powers_ - *44 Famous Early Americans (Smith, Standish, Penn)--_Bush_ - *54 Story of Columbus--_McCabe_ - 55 Story of Whittier--_McCabe_ - 57 Story of Louisa M. Alcott--_Bush_ - *59 Story of the Boston Tea Party--_McCabe_ - *60 Children of the Northland--_Bush_ - *62 Children of the South Lands--I (Florida, Cuba, Puerto - Rico)--_McFee_ - *63 Children of the South Lands--II (Africa, Hawaii, The - Philippines)--_McFee_ - *64 Child Life in the Colonies--I (New Amsterdam)--_Baker_ - *65 Child Life in the Colonies--II (Pennsylvania)--_Baker_ - *66 Child Life in the Colonies--III (Virginia) - *68 Stories of the Revolution--I (Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain - Boys)--_McCabe_ - *69 Stories of the Revolution--II (Around Philadelphia)--_McCabe_ - *70 Stories of the Revolution--III (Marion, the Swamp Fox)--_McCabe_ - *132 Story of Franklin--_Faris_ - *164 The Little Brown Baby and Other Babies - *165 Gemila, the Child of the Desert - *166 Louise on the Rhine and in Her New Home - (_Nos. 164, 165, 166 are the stories from “Seven - Little Sisters” by Jane Andrews_) - *167 Famous Artists--I--(Landseer and Bonheur) - -Literature - - *35 Little Goody Two Shoes - 58 Selections from Alice and Phoebe Cary - *67 The Story of Robinson Crusoe--_Bush_ - *71 Selections from Hiawatha (Five Grades) - *227 Our Animal Friends: How to Treat Them - *233 Poems Worth Knowing--Book I--Primary - -FOURTH GRADE - -Nature and Industry - - *75 Story of Coal--_McKane_ - *76 Story of Wheat--_Halifax_ - *77 Story of Cotton--_Brown_ - *134 Conquests of Little Plant People--_Chase_ - *136 Peeps into Bird Nooks--I--_McFee_ - *181 Stories of the Stars--_McFee_ - *205 Eyes and No Eyes and The Three Giants - -History and Biography - - *5 Story of Lincoln--_Reiter_ - *56 Indian Children Tales--_Bush_ - *78 Stories of the Backwoods--_Reiter_ - *79 A Little New England Viking--_Baker_ - *81 Story of De Soto--_Hatfield_ - *82 Story of Daniel Boone--_Reiter_ - *83 Story of Printing--_McCabe_ - *84 Story of David Crockett--_Reiter_ - *85 Story of Patrick Henry--_Littlefield_ - *86 American Inventors--I (Whitney, Fulton) - *87 American Inventors--II (Morse, Edison) - *88 American Naval Heroes (Jones, Perry, Farragut)--_Bush_ - *89 Fremont and Kit Carson--_Judd_ - *91 Story of Eugene Field--_McCabe_ - *178 Story of Lexington and Bunker Hill--_Baker_ - *182 Story of Joan of Arc--_McFee_ - *207 Famous Artists--II--Reynolds and Murillo - *243 Famous Artists--III--Millet - *248 Makers of European History--_White_ - -Literature - - *90 Fifteen Selections from Longfellow--(Village Blacksmith, - Children’s Hour, etc.) - *95 Japanese Myths and Legends--_McFee_ - *103 Stories from the Old Testament--_McFee_ - *111 Water Babies (Abridged)--_Kingsley_ - *159 Little Lame Prince (Cond.)--_Mulock_ - *171 Tolmi of the Tree-Tops--_Grimes_ - *172 Labu the Little Lake Dweller--_Grimes_ - *173 Tara of the Tents--_Grimes_ - *195 Night before Christmas and Other Christmas Poems and Stories - (Any Grade) - *201 Alice’s First Adventures in Wonderland - *202 Alice’s Further Adventures in Wonderland - *256 Bolo the Cave Boy--_Grimes_ - *257 Kwasa the Cliff Dweller--_Grimes_ - *291 Voyage to Lilliput (Abridged)--_Swift_ - *293 Hansel and Grettel, and Pretty Goldilocks - *304 Story Lessons in Everyday Manners--_Bailey_ - *312 Legends from Many Lands--_Bailey_ - *314 The Enchanted Bugle and Other Stories - -FIFTH GRADE - -Nature and Industry - - *92 Animal Life in the Sea--_Reiter_ - *93 Story of Silk--_Brown_ - *94 Story of Sugar--_Reiter_ - *96 What We Drink (Tea, Coffee and Cocoa) - *139 Peeps into Bird Nooks--II - 210 Snowdrops and Crocuses - 263 The Sky Family--_Denton_ - *280 Making of the World--_Herndon_ - *281 Builders of the World--_Herndon_ - *283 Stories of Time--_Bush_ - *290 Story of King Corn--_Cooley_ - -History and Biography - - *16 Explorations of the Northwest - *80 Story of the Cabots--_McBride_ - *97 Stories of the Norsemen--_Hanson_ - *98 Story of Nathan Hale--_McCabe_ - *99 Story of Jefferson--_McCabe_ - 100 Story of Bryant--_McFee_ - *101 Story of Robert E. Lee--_McKane_ - 105 Story of Canada--_McCabe_ - *106 Story of Mexico--_McCabe_ - *107 Story of Robert Louis Stevenson--_Bush_ - 110 Story of Hawthorne--_McFee_ - 112 Biographical Stories--_Hawthorne_ - *141 Story of Grant--_McKane_ - *144 Story of Steam--_McCabe_ - *145 Story of McKinley--_McBride_ - 157 Story of Dickens--_Smith_ - *179 Story of the Flag--_Baker_ - *185 Story of the First Crusade--_Mead_ - 190 Story of Father Hennepin--_McBride_ - 191 Story of La Salle--_McBride_ - *217 Story of Florence Nightingale--_McFee_ - *218 Story of Peter Cooper--_McFee_ - *219 Little Stories of Discovery--_Halsey_ - 232 Story of Shakespeare--_Grames_ - *265 Four Little Discoverers in Panama--_Bush_ - 274 Stories from Grandfather’s Chair--_Hawthorne_ - *275 When Plymouth Colony Was Young - *287 Life in Colonial Days--_Tillinghast_ - -Literature - - *8 King of the Golden River--_Ruskin_ - *9 The Golden Touch--_Hawthorne_ - *61 Story of Sindbad the Sailor - *108 History in Verse - *113 Little Daffydowndilly and Other Stories - *180 Story of Aladdin and of Ali Baba--_Lewis_ - *183 A Dog of Flanders--_De La Ramee_ - *184 The Nurnberg Stove--_De La Ramee_ - *186 Heroes from King Arthur--_Grames_ - 194 Whittier’s Poems--Selected - *199 Jackanapes--_Ewing_ - *200 The Child of Urbino--_De La Ramee_ - 208 Heroes of Asgard--Selections--_Keary_ - *212 Stories of Robin Hood--_Bush_ - *234 Poems Worth Knowing--Book II--Inter. - *244 What Happened at the Zoo--_Bailey_ - *250 At the Back of the North Wind, Selection from--_Macdonald_ - 255 Chinese Fables and Stories--_Feltges_ - *309 Moni the Goat Boy--_Spyri_ - *313 In Nature’s Fairyland--_Bailey_ - -SIXTH GRADE - -Nature and Industry - - *109 Gifts of the Forests (Rubber, Cinchona, Resins, etc.)--_McFee_ - 249 Flowers and Birds of Illinois--_Patterson_ - *298 Story of Leather--_Peirce_ - *299 Story of Iron--_Ogden_ - -Agricultural - - *271 Animal Husbandry, I--Horses and Cattle - *272 Animal Husbandry, II--Sheep and Swine - -Geography - - *114 Great European Cities--I (London-Paris) - *115 Great European Cities--II (Rome-Berlin) - *168 Great European Cities--III - (St. Petersburg-Constantinople)--_Bush_ - *246 What I Saw in Japan--_Griffis_ - *247 The Chinese and Their Country--_Paulson_ - *285 Story of Panama and the Canal--_Nida_ - -History and Biography - - *73 Four Great Musicians--_Bush_ - *74 Four More Great Musicians--_Bush_ - *116 Old English Heroes (Alfred, Richard the Lion-Hearted, The Black - Prince)--_Bush_ - *117 Later English Heroes (Cromwell, Wellington, Gladstone)--_Bush_ - *160 Heroes of the Revolution--_Tristram_ - *163 Stories of Courage--_Bush_ - 187 Lives of Webster and Clay--_Tristram_ - *188 Story of Napoleon--_Bush_ - *189 Stories of Heroism--_Bush_ - *197 Story of Lafayette--_Bush_ - 198 Story of Roger Williams--_Leighton_ - *209 Lewis and Clark Expedition--_Herndon_ - *224 Story of William Tell--_Hallock_ - *253 Story of the Aeroplane--_Galbreath_ - *266 Story of Belgium--_Griffis_ - *267 Story of Wheels--_Bush_ - *286 Story of Slavery--_Booker T. Washington_ - *310 Story of Frances E. Willard--_Babcock_ - -Stories of the States - - 508 Story of Florida--_Bauskett_ - 509 Story of Georgia--_Derry_ - 511 Story of Illinois--_Smith_ - 512 Story of Indiana--_Clem_ - 513 Story of Iowa--_McFee_ - 515 Story of Kentucky--_Eubank_ - 520 Story of Michigan--_Skinner_ - 521 Story of Minnesota--_Skinner_ - 523 Story of Missouri--_Pierce_ - *525 Story of Nebraska--_Mears_ - *528 Story of New Jersey--_Hutchinson_ - 533 Story of Ohio--_Galbreath_ - *536 Story of Pennsylvania--_March_ - *540 Story of Tennessee--_Overall_ - 542 Story of Utah--_Young_ - 546 Story of West Virginia--_Shawkey_ - 547 Story of Wisconsin--_Skinner_ - -Literature - - *10 The Snow Image--_Hawthorne_ - *11 Rip Van Winkle--_Irving_ - *12 Legend of Sleepy Hollow--_Irving_ - *22 Rab and His Friends--_Brown_ - *24 Three Golden Apples--_Hawthorne_[2] - *25 The Miraculous Pitcher--_Hawthorne_[2] - *26 The Minotaur--_Hawthorne_ - *118 A Tale of the White Hills and Other Stories--_Hawthorne_ - *119 Bryant’s Thanatopsis, and Other Poems - *120 Ten Selections from Longfellow--(Paul Revere’s Ride, The - Skeleton in Armor, etc.) - *121 Selections from Holmes (The Wonderful One Hoss Shay, Old - Ironsides, and Others) - *122 The Pied Piper of Hamelin--_Browning_ - 161 The Great Carbuncle, Mr. Higginbotham’s Catastrophe, - Snowflakes--_Hawthorne_ - 162 The Pygmies--_Hawthorne_ - *211 The Golden Fleece--_Hawthorne_ - *222 Kingsley’s Greek Heroes--I. The Story of Perseus - *223 Kingsley’s Greek Heroes--II. The Story of Theseus - *225 Tennyson’s Poems--Selected (Any grade) - 226 A Child’s Dream of a Star, and Other Stories - 229 Responsive Bible Readings--_Zeller_ - *258 The Pilgrim’s Progress (Abridged)--_Simons_ - *264 The Story of Don Quixote--_Bush_ - 277 Thrift Stories--_Benj. Franklin and Others_ - *284 Story of Little Nell (Dickens)--_Smith_ - 294 The Dragon’s Teeth--_Hawthorne_ - *295 The Gentle Boy--_Hawthorne_ - -SEVENTH GRADE - - *13 Courtship of Miles Standish--_Longfellow_ - *14 Evangeline--_Longfellow_[2] - *15 Snowbound--_Whittier_[2] - *20 The Great Stone Face--_Hawthorne_ - 123 Selections from Wordsworth (Ode on Immortality, We are Seven, - To the Cuckoo, and other poems) - 124 Selections from Shelley and Keats - 125 Selections from The Merchant of Venice - *147 Story of King Arthur, as told by Tennyson - *149 The Man Without a Country--_Hale_[2] - *192 Story of Jean Valjean--_Grames_ - *193 Selections from the Sketch Book--_Irving_ - 196 The Gray Champion--_Hawthorne_ - 213 Poems of Thomas Moore--(Selected) - 214 More Selections from the Sketch Book - *216 Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare--Selected - *231 The Oregon Trail (Condensed)--_Parkman_ - *235 Poems Worth Knowing--Book III--Grammar--_Faxon_ - *238 Lamb’s Adventures of Ulysses--Part I - *239 Lamb’s Adventures of Ulysses--Part II - *241 Story of the Iliad--_Church_ (Cond.) - *242 Story of the Æneid--_Church_ (Cond.) - *251 Story of Language and Literature--_Heilig_ - *252 The Battle of Waterloo--_Hugo_ - *254 Story of “The Talisman” (Scott)--_Weekes_ - *259 The Last of the Mohicans (Abridged) - *260 Oliver Twist (abridged)--_Dickens_ - *261 Selected Tales of a Wayside Inn--_Longfellow_ - *296 Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Condensed) - *297 Story of David Copperfield (Condensed) - *307 The Chariot Race--_Wallace_ - *311 Story of Jerusalem--_Heilig_ - *315 The Story of Armenia--_Heilig_ - -Nature - - *278 Mars and Its Mysteries--_Wilson_ - *279 True Story of the Man in the Moon--_Wilson_ - -EIGHTH GRADE - - *17 Enoch Arden--_Tennyson_[2] - *18 Vision of Sir Launfal--_Lowell_[2] - *19 Cotter’s Saturday Night--_Burns_[2] - *23 The Deserted Village--_Goldsmith_ - *126 Rime of the Ancient Mariner--_Coleridge_[2] - *127 Gray’s Elegy and Other Poems - *128 Speeches of Lincoln - *129 Julius Cæsar--Selections--_Shakespeare_ - 130 Henry the VIII--Selections--_Shakespeare_ - 131 Macbeth--Selections--_Shakespeare_ - *142 Scott’s Lady of the Lake--Canto I[2] - *154 Scott’s Lady of the Lake--Canto II[2] - 143 Building of the Ship and Other Poems--_Longfellow_ - 148 Horatius, Ivry, The Armada--_Macaulay_ - *150 Bunker Hill Address--Selections from Adams and Jefferson - Oration--_Webster_[2] - *151 Gold Bug, The--_Poe_ - 153 Prisoner of Chillon and Other Poems--_Byron_[2] - 155 Rhoecus and Other Poems--_Lowell_[2] - 156 Edgar Allan Poe--Biography and Selected Poems--_Link_ - *158 Washington’s Farewell Address - 169 Abram Joseph Ryan--Biography and Selected Poems--_Smith_ - 170 Paul H. Hayne--Biography and Selected Poems--_Link_ - 215 Life of Samuel Johnson--_Macaulay_[2] - *221 Sir Roger de Coverley Papers--_Addison_[2] - *236 Poems Worth Knowing--Book IV Adv. - 237 Lay of the Last Minstrel--Canto I--_Scott_[2] - 276 Landing of the Pilgrims (Orations)--_Webster_ - *305 Wee Willie Winkie--_Kipling_ - *306 Howe’s Masquerade--_Hawthorne_ - - -FOOTNOTE: - -[2] _These have biographical sketch of author, with introduction or -explanatory notes._ - -=Price 7 Cents Each. Postage, 1 cent per copy extra on orders of less -than twelve.= The titles indicated by (*) are supplied also in =Limp -Cloth Binding= at =12 cents per copy=. - - * * * * * - -EXCELSIOR LITERATURE SERIES - - 1 =Evangeline.= Biography, introduction, oral and written exercises - and notes. =18c= - - 3 =Courtship of Miles Standish.= Longfellow. With introduction and - notes. =18c= - - 5 =Vision of Sir Launfal.= Lowell. Biography, introduction, notes, - outlines. =12c= - - 7 =Enoch Arden.= Tennyson. 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Wilson</p> -<p style='display:block; text-indent:0; margin:1em 0'>Release Date: January 10, 2023 [eBook #69763]</p> -<p style='display:block; text-indent:0; margin:1em 0'>Language: English</p> - <p style='display:block; margin-top:1em; margin-bottom:0; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em; text-align:left'>Produced by: Demian Katz, Craig Kirkwood, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (Images courtesy of the Digital Library@Villanova University.)</p> -<div style='margin-top:2em; margin-bottom:4em'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK KWASA THE CLIFF DWELLER ***</div> - -<div class="figcenter illowp50" style="max-width: 102.625em;"> - <img id="coverpage" class="w100" src="images/cover.jpg" alt="Cover."> -</div> - -<hr class="tb x-ebookmaker-drop"> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p class="center boldfont"><em>Instructor Literature Series—No. 257</em></p> - -<div class="boxcover"> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" style="max-width: 35.625em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/cover_top.jpg" alt="Cover decoration."> -</div> - -<p class="xxlargefont center boldfont" style="padding-bottom:0.5em">Kwasa the Cliff<br> -Dweller</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp76" style="max-width: 3.125em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/cover_star.jpg" alt="Cover star."> -</div> - -<p class="largefont center" style="padding-bottom:1.5em; padding-top:1em"><em>By Katherine Atherton Grimes</em></p> - -<hr class="title"> - -<p class="center largefont p1">F. A. OWEN PUBLISHING COMPANY,<br> -<span class="mediumfont">DANSVILLE, N. Y.</span></p> -</div></div> - -<hr class="tb x-ebookmaker-drop"> - -<div class="chapter"> -<div class="transnote"> -<h2 style="margin-top: 0em">Transcriber’s Notes:</h2> -<p>The Table of Contents was created by the transcriber and placed in -the public domain.</p> - -<p><a href="#TN_end">Additional Transcriber’s Notes</a> are at the -end.</p> -</div></div> - -<hr class="tb x-ebookmaker-drop"> - -<div class="chapter"> -<div class="boxcontents"> -<p class="xlargefont center boldfont">CONTENTS</p> -<p class="pcontents"><a href="#CHAPTER_I">Chapter I. The Game on the Terrace</a></p> -<p class="pcontents"><a href="#CHAPTER_II">Chapter II. The Warning</a></p> -<p class="pcontents"><a href="#CHAPTER_III">Chapter III. In the Season of Planting</a></p> -<p class="pcontents"><a href="#CHAPTER_IV">Chapter IV. The Rites in the Kiva</a></p> -<p class="pcontents"><a href="#CHAPTER_V">Chapter V. In the Far Fields</a></p> -<p class="pcontents"><a href="#CHAPTER_VI">Chapter VI. The Luck of the Dice</a></p> -<p class="pcontents"><a href="#CHAPTER_VII">Chapter VII. On the Walpi Trail</a></p> -</div></div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> - -<div class="chapter"> -<div class="figcenter illowp54" style="max-width: 40.625em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/title_page.jpg" alt="Title page."> -</div></div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> - -<div class="chapter"> -<div class="boxtitle"> -<p class="center largefont">INSTRUCTOR LITERATURE SERIES</p> - -<hr class="title"> -<h1 class="nobreak">Kwasa the Cliff Dweller</h1> - -<p class="center p2">BY<br> -<span class="largefont"><em>Katherine Atherton Grimes</em></span></p> - -<p class="center p1" style="margin-bottom:2em">ILLUSTRATED BY L. J. WILSON</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp80" style="max-width: 4.6875em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/publisher_logo.jpg" alt="Publisher logo."> -</div> - -<p class="center largefont p2">F. A. OWEN PUBLISHING COMPANY,<br> -<span class="mediumfont">DANSVILLE, N. Y.</span></p> -</div> -<p class="center"><em>Copyright, 1916, by F. A. Owen Publishing Co.</em></p> -</div> - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> - -<div class="chapter"> -<div class="figcenter illowp54" id="Ref_007" style="max-width: 40.625em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/i007.jpg" alt=""> - <div class="caption"><p class="center">“It was one that few boys would care to attempt”—<em><a href="#BRef_007">Chapter 2</a></em></p></div> -</div></div> - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p class="center xxlargefont boldfont nobreak" style="margin-bottom:1em" id="CHAPTER_I">Kwasa the Cliff Dweller</p> - -<h2 class="nobreak">CHAPTER I -<br><span class="cheaderfont">The Game on the Terrace</span></h2> -</div> - - -<p>“It did,” said Kwasa.</p> - -<p>“It didn’t,” said Wiki.</p> - -<p>“But I say there were three reds up,” insisted Kwasa.</p> - -<p>“And I say one of the dice came up white,” argued -Wiki.</p> - -<p>“Well,” returned Kwasa good-humoredly, “we will -not quarrel about a game. I will throw again.”</p> - -<p>Catching up the three small sticks of cane, painted red -on the hollowed inner side and white on the upper part, -Kwasa tossed them deftly into the air. They came down -all together, landing on the stone pavement with the -white sides up.</p> - -<p>Kwasa gave a cluck of triumph.</p> - -<p>“Three whites; better yet.” Reaching across the -stone slab covered with a pattern of circles and lines -which served as a game board, he carefully moved a -white pebble from the mark where it stood to one two -spaces nearer the center of the slab.</p> - -<p>Wiki seized the dice eagerly. “Well done! Now it -is my turn.”</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum">[4]</span></p> - -<p>Into the air spun the three sticks again, but as they -came down Wiki saw with disappointment that one -showed the white side while the other two had fallen -with the red uppermost.</p> - -<p>“No play,” cried Kwasa.</p> - -<p>“But I have one more throw,” said Wiki, and this time -three reds gleamed against the gray rock floor.</p> - -<p>“One space, anyway,” said Wiki, and this time a red -pebble on the farther side of the slab was set one space -nearer the center.</p> - -<p>Kwasa laughed.</p> - -<p>“When I have beaten you I will show you how to hold -the dice,” he boasted playfully. “Old Honau showed -me the trick. He can bring down the white every time.”</p> - -<p>“I am thirsty,” said Wiki, laying down the dice and -jumping up.</p> - -<p>“So am I,” said Kwasa, “but it is too far down to the -spring. Let us go to the reservoir.”</p> - -<p>The lads ran lightly across the long, narrow court and -climbed a niche staircase hewn in the rock wall at the -back of the cliff. A dozen steps brought them to the top -of the wall, from which they looked down into a huge hollow -in the rock, which appeared to be partly natural and -partly the result of human labor. It was nearly full of -water, which fed slowly into it from a small stream trickling -down from the higher side of the bluff.</p> - -<p>On top of the wall stood a graceful olla, or vase-shaped -jar of pottery, strikingly ornamented with red and black. -About the neck was a short, twisted rope of yucca fiber, -long enough to let the jar down to the water. The boys<span class="pagenum">[5]</span> -dropped it down and brought it up full, holding it carefully -that it might not strike the side of the wall.</p> - -<p>“Bah,” said Wiki, tasting it, “it is too warm to drink, -now that the sun is on it. I would rather have gone to -the spring.”</p> - -<p>“Come, then,” cried Kwasa, jumping down from the -wall. “If we go to the spring perhaps we may see something -of the hunters. It is time they were returning, my -grandmother says.”</p> - -<p>Kwasa told the truth when he said it was a long way -to the spring. For the great rock-built house, or rather -cluster of houses, in whose inner court the boys had been -playing, was placed three hundred feet from the bottom -of a canyon in a huge cavern which Nature had left in -the face of the precipitous cliff. Along the outer edge -of the cavern, following the outline of the opening, was -a high wall of masonry pierced with numerous openings -that served as doors and windows. So exactly had the -builders matched the color of the rocky cliff face, and so -skilfully was the great structure placed in its lofty niche, -that a traveler in the canyon below could hardly have -told it was there at all.</p> - -<p>This outer wall was in some places four stories high. -Back of it the building was terraced down to the floor of -the cave, each story projecting beyond the one above it -so that its roof made a sort of porch for the upper rooms. -Rude ladders were everywhere, leading from each story -to the next, for the people who lived in this peculiar -dwelling liked to go up and down from the outside. Each -story was divided into many rooms, most of them rather<span class="pagenum">[6]</span> -small, but several near the center of the structure being -of good size. In some of these were stone fireplaces for -cooking, and one, larger than any of the others, was set -apart for ceremonial use.</p> - -<p>Back of the great house, or rather village, for it was -the home of many families, was a long and narrow court -running well back under the sheltering slope of the cavern -roof. Here the children could play and the women -could weave and grind and make pottery and mats in -well-guarded safety, for back of them and overhead rose -the mighty arch of the cavern, and between them and the -cliff’s edge stood the solid sandstone structure.</p> - -<p>Where the cave roof slanted down to meet the floor -there were other rooms, built close in under the rock. -These were storerooms where food was kept. In them -were great piles of beans and corn, rolls of piki or paper -bread which the women were forever baking over the -fireplaces, and immense quantities of buffalo meat, dried -and pounded fine and laid away between layers of tallow. -In one of these rooms was kept the colored corn and -beans used in the sacred rites which were held at certain -times in the ceremonial hall, or in the queer, underground -chamber in the center of the court.</p> - -<p>Above the cavern the cliff rose sheer and unbroken for -hundreds of feet, but below it the rocky wall fell more -unevenly to the valley far below. The vivid brown and -yellow and red of the upper expanse was varied only here -and there by clumps of cedar or pinon or scrub oak, with -scattering bunches of yucca and cactus between, but on -the lower slope the vegetation was somewhat more dense.<span class="pagenum">[7]</span> -All had the same reddish-brown tinge, for it had been a -long time since the rains of the last spring had washed -away the wind-blown dust which whirled down in clouds -from the bare and forbidding surfaces above.</p> - -<p>Across the canyon rose another bluff, but this was -unbroken from top to bottom by ledge or cavern. To the -southwest the canyon swept away majestically, broadening -in the distance to a stretch of comparatively level -land through which, in the rainy season, a small river -ran. At the head of the canyon, some distance to the -northeast, was a large spring of sweet, cold water, which, -supplemented by the reservoir at the back of the cavern, -furnished an ample supply for the village.</p> - -<p>Down the steep stairway leading from the village to -the valley Kwasa and Wiki went quickly. A stranger -would have had a hard time finding the half-hidden niches -cut in the face of the cliff, but the boys, sure-footed as -mountain goats, were soon in the valley, running eagerly -toward the spring.</p> - -<p>“Hush,” warned Kwasa, suddenly crouching behind a -tuft of brown yucca.</p> - -<p>Looking where he pointed, Wiki saw the slender figure -of a young man bending over the spring. He drank eagerly, -then taking his cupped hands, poured the cool -water over his dusty limbs as if seeking relief in its freshness. -His face, the boys saw as he turned it toward -them, was weary and seared with the hot, reddish-brown -dust, but young and pleasant, and he did not appear to -be much older than themselves.</p> - -<p>“He is none of our people,” whispered Wiki.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum">[8]</span></p> - -<p>“No, but I like him,” exclaimed the impulsive Kwasa.</p> - -<p>“How do you know?” asked Wiki sharply. “He may -be a spy of the Utes for all we know.”</p> - -<p>“No,” said Kwasa, “for if he were—”</p> - -<p>“Here are the hunters,” cried Wiki joyfully, forgetting -all caution and jumping up as a band of men turned -into the canyon from the lower side.</p> - -<p>“They are well laden,” observed Kwasa. “The men -of the Snakes never hunt in vain.”</p> - -<p>The young man at the spring, hearing their voices, -suddenly straightened himself and looked eagerly about. -Seeing the boys running toward the hunting band, he followed -slowly, his hand resting cautiously upon his spear -shaft, but his frank, brown face expressing nothing but -friendliness.</p> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum">[9]</span></p> -<h2 class="nobreak" id="CHAPTER_II">CHAPTER II -<br><span class="cheaderfont">The Warning</span></h2> -</div> - - -<p>The long line of hunters, laden with the game secured -by a week’s vigorous chase, was at the niche stairway -before the boys reached them. Impatient to be in the -court when they should arrive, to partake in the welcoming -ceremony, the boys could not wait until the last of -the procession had filed up the dizzy rock steps. Long -before, in their explorations about the canyon, they had -discovered another way to reach the cavern, steeper and -more perilous, but entirely passable for boys whose lives -had been spent in scaling cliffs and finding footholds in -all sorts of precarious places.</p> - -<p>Running around a projecting spur and diving through -a thicket of scrub oaks, Kwasa and Wiki were at the -second stairway in a moment. <a id="BRef_007" href="#Ref_007">It was one that few boys -of to-day would care to attempt</a>. It ran almost straight -up the side of the cliff, and in many places they had to -pull themselves from ledge to ledge by straggling tufts of -wiry grass or by the tough, well-rooted clumps of grease-wood -brush. At one spot, to bridge a particularly smooth -and difficult part of the ascent, a pole with sticks bound -upon it at intervals to make a sort of rude ladder had -been swung down from a rocky ledge above.</p> - -<p>Up this dangerous ascent Kwasa led the way nimbly, -Wiki following close behind him. The young stranger,<span class="pagenum">[10]</span> -after looking doubtfully for a moment from the hunting -band to the boys, finally plunged through the thicket and -took the steeper path, reaching the top only a moment -after Kwasa and Wiki had landed with a final active spring -upon the safe ledge at the rim of the cavern.</p> - -<p>“I must speak to your chief quickly,” he said gravely, -as Kwasa, who in the excitement had forgotten all about -the stranger at the spring, looked at him in surprise.</p> - -<p>“But,” began Kwasa, “this is no time—”</p> - -<p>“All times are alike when danger threatens,” said the -youth impatiently. “Tell me with whom I should speak.”</p> - -<p>Kwasa pointed to a little group of men who stood a little -apart from the rest, waiting to greet the hunters as -they came up, one by one, over the edge of the cliff.</p> - -<p>“Mosu is a priest,” he said, indicating a tall old man -with a band of flat red and black beads bound about his -forehead. “Honau is very wise, too, and then there is -Bimba—”</p> - -<p>But the young stranger had hurried away and was accosting -Mosu, the tall priest, respectfully. Before he had -spoken many words the whole group was listening intently, -and in a few minutes the court was hushed and -all came crowding about to see what this unusual interruption -might mean.</p> - -<p>Presently the lad stopped speaking and Mosu held up -his hand for attention.</p> - -<p>“This young man is Sado. He comes from the Seven -Cities to bring us tidings to which it were well to listen, -for the Utes are again on the warpath, and the Buffalo -and Fox clans have sent out runners to warn all to the<span class="pagenum">[11]</span> -southward. They reached Walpi yesterday, and from -there this messenger brings us word, that we, too, may -be in readiness for an attack.”</p> - -<p>“But surely we are safe—”</p> - -<p>“They can not reach our village—”</p> - -<p>“We could hold the cliff against a thousand, even—”</p> - -<p>A babel of voices broke out anxiously. Mosu held up -his hand again.</p> - -<p>“All you say is true,” he said. “When our fathers -came here from the Great Mesa, driven out by the savages -from the far north, they sought a place where they -might rest secure from attack. And here they found it.” -He waved his hand toward the great walls of rock rising -protectingly all about them.</p> - -<p>“But we must eat, and planting time is near. Those -who stay in the village are indeed secure, but what of the -men who must plant the seeds and care for the grain in -the far fields? We must say farewell to Waka (the sun) -with full storehouses, and with heaped fuel for the cold -days of winter. And if the thieving Utes swarm down -upon our fields and carry off our corn and beans and -squashes, what then? Then there is the danger while -we plant and harvest. The Watcher in the High Tower -must indeed be keen of eye to guard every path that leads -to the fields. It is of these things we must think. And -in the meantime,” he broke off abruptly, “this lad is -weary and hungry. See that he has refreshment and -rest. We must not send him back to the Seven Cities to -tell of our ingratitude for a friendly deed.”</p> - -<p>But Sado shook his head.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum">[12]</span></p> - -<p>“There are many others to warn,” he said earnestly. -“I must not stay, though the thought of rest is tempting. -But first I will eat—”</p> - -<p>“Has the Snake Clan no runners?” interrupted Mosu -proudly.</p> - -<p>Old Honau stepped out from the group.</p> - -<p>“I am not fleet of foot as when I was young,” he began, -“but rather than suffer this brave lad to go farther -without rest, I myself will take the warning to the farthest -clan.”</p> - -<p>But a dozen lads were already pressing forward, Kwasa -and Wiki among them. Motioning Honau kindly aside, -four of the tallest and strongest were quickly chosen, and -Mosu, drawing them to one side, had Sado repeat carefully -the message he had brought.</p> - -<p>“The Rainbow people are yonder,” he said, pointing -southwestward down the open canyon. “And the Bear -Clan is not far from them. It is a three days’ journey—”</p> - -<p>“They must take plenty of meat and piki,” called one -of the women, hurrying forward. “We will fill the food-bags -well. It is a long way, but, praise to Waka, the new -springs are filling and they cannot suffer from thirst.”</p> - -<p>Immediately there was a great bustle in the court. -Women ran here and there, bringing new sandals of -tough fiber for the feet of the messengers, and thick -woolen blankets for the cool nights in the canyons. The -skin food-bags were quickly filled and strapped over the -slender young shoulders, and Kwasa, as leader, was given -a heavy new spear in addition to the bows and arrows -which they all carried.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum">[13]</span></p> - -<p>At last all was ready, and the lads stood forth to be -sprinkled with the sacred meal from the handsome red -and black bowl in Mosu’s hands.</p> - -<p>“The Old Ones be with you,” muttered the priest, as -he strewed the meal in a circle about them, and upon the -boys’ bowed heads.</p> - -<p>“Come back quickly,” called many anxious voices as, -one by one, the lads dropped down the niche stairway. -Kwasa, the last one to descend, stooped as he left the court -and picked up the three red and white dice with which -he and Wiki had been playing so short a time before.</p> - -<p>“For luck,” he laughed, as he dropped them into the -deerskin pouch that hung at his belt.</p> - -<p>“Luck is in the hands of the Old Ones, not in painted -sticks,” muttered Tcua, the old grandmother of Kwasa, -watching the lads with anxious eyes as they filed down -the canyon and out of sight. “May they bring back my -son’s son safely—a good lad—a good lad.”</p> - -<p>And then she went down to grind corn for piki, for -waiting in idleness is hard.</p> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum">[14]</span></p> -<h2 class="nobreak" id="CHAPTER_III">CHAPTER III -<br><span class="cheaderfont">In the Season of Planting</span></h2> -</div> - - -<p>“The door of the Sun-House is open!”</p> - -<p>From mouth to mouth flew the word, brought at sunrise -from the High Tower far up the cliff where Bimba, the -Watcher, kept anxious count of the days till the planting -season should begin.</p> - -<p>As if by magic the court was filled with busy men, women -and children. Waka had come back once more to -bring them plenty. It had not been in vain that every -morning and evening they had thrown sacred meal toward -the rising and the setting Sun, beseeching him to -return quickly from his long journey to the south. And -now the glad news had come that he had at last touched -the peak far away to the east that marked his final favor, -and they might get the seeds ready.</p> - -<p>Nor was that their only cause of rejoicing. For Kwasa -and his companions had returned the night before, worn -and weary from their long, swift race to the far-off neighbors -at the southwest, but triumphant and proud. They -brought word that the Rainbow people and their near -kinsmen, the Bear Clan, were ready at a moment’s notice -to join them against the dreaded common foe, -whether Ute or Apache. Moreover, in the nine days<span class="pagenum">[15]</span> -since Sado had left them word had come that in a terrible -battle between the Utes and the Pueblo people of the -Seven Cities the foe had been repulsed with great slaughter, -and had fled, broken and disabled, to their northern -mountain fastnesses to nurse their wounds. For the -time the danger of attack was over.</p> - -<p>So, though the older men of the village still felt some -anxiety, the planting was at last to be begun under much -more favorable circumstances than they had feared. The -women chatted gayly as they brought out the precious -seeds to be sorted, sharpened new planting sticks, and -baked great sheets of piki to pack in the big food-baskets -that were to go with the planters to the distant fields. -The children tumbled about on the terraces or played -games in the angles of the gray walls, even they noticing -the relief in the air which had been so full of dire rumors.</p> - -<p>But Kwasa and Wiki, with their two companions, were -more excited than any of the rest. For their service as -messengers they were to be “adopted,” or consecrated, -into the rank of men, and henceforth would take a dignified -place in the Clan, though they were some years -younger than usual for such an honor. For the first -time they were to witness the invocation of the mysterious -deities of the cloud and the sun, which took place -in the kiva, the sacred underground chamber whose -hatchway opened into the court. Mosu, who as head -priest was the person of supreme authority on such occasions, -had even promised them that they might act as -novices at the annual ceremony of the Blessing of the -Seeds.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum">[16]</span></p> - -<p>When the boys were not following Mosu about they -lingered in fascinated anticipation about the sloping entrance -to the kiva, through which protruded the long -ends of the ladder leading to the depths below. They -had many times descended through the trap-door on the -surface to the great, dusky chamber of the kiva, but never -had they been allowed to witness any of the sacred rites, -except such as were held in the court and were open to -women and children. And now that they were to be admitted -as men to the significant symbolism of the ancient -service, they felt awed and excited by turns.</p> - -<p>Kwasa’s grandmother, old Tcua, had long ago told him -the mystic tradition of the Creation, whose sacred story -was perpetuated by the solemn ceremonies in the dimly -lighted chamber. And now, in awed tones, Kwasa repeated -it to Wiki and the others as they sat huddled in -an angle of the lower terrace near the opening to the kiva.</p> - -<p>“There were no people then—there were only animals. -They lived far under the ground in dark caves. But the -Old Ones heard them moaning and crying in the dark. -They heard the fox, and the bear, and the duck, and the -wolf, all crying, crying in the dark. And they were -sorry.”</p> - -<p>Old as the tale was, the boys listened with breathless -interest.</p> - -<p>“So the Old Ones dropped a seed through sipapuh<a id="FNanchor_1" href="#Footnote_1" class="fnanchor">[1]</a> and -immediately up sprang a wonderful stalk of corn. It -grew up, and up, and up, until at last its head rose into -the sunlight of the Upper World. Then, one at a time, -the fox, and the wolf, and the duck, and all the other<span class="pagenum">[17]</span> -animals and birds, came up the great stalk and stood in -the light of Waka, the Sun. And they were no longer -animals, but men and women. We must never forget -this, or the Old Ones will forget us, and we would once -more be animals, back in the middle of the earth, crying -and moaning for the light.”</p> - -<p>“But what of the snakes?” whispered Wiki. “My -father says there are more than a hundred in the kisi.” -He nodded toward a brush-covered shelter near the kiva.</p> - -<p>“Hush,” replied Kwasa, looking furtively about. -“They are the prayer-bearers, and carry to the Old Ones -the prayers of the Snake Clan for rain, that the crop may -thrive. But we must not speak of that now; it is not -well to talk too much of the gods so near the place where -they dwell.”</p> - - -<div class="footnotes" style="margin-top:0.5em"><h3>FOOTNOTE:</h3> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_1" href="#FNanchor_1" class="label">[1]</a> A cavity in the floor of the kiva represented the lower world. -Over this was placed a stone slab with a round hole in the middle, -which was called sipapuh, and represented the outlet through -which the ancestral beings emerged.</p> - -</div></div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum">[18]</span></p> -<h2 class="nobreak" id="CHAPTER_IV">CHAPTER IV -<br><span class="cheaderfont">The Rites in the Kiva</span></h2> -</div> - - -<p>For an hour Kwasa had been sitting stiffly on the stone -ledge that ran around the outer wall of the kiva, trying -to get used to the smothering mask Mosu had put over -his head. This mask was a gorgeously painted affair -representing the head of a duck. Feathers of green and -black were fastened to the crest, and a huge bill of yellow -cane projected from the mouthpiece. In it Kwasa -became for the time a Katcina, or one of the supernatural -beings which mediate between gods and men. As a Katcina -he represented one of the ancestral forms which had -emerged from the Lower World upon the day of Creation.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum">[19]</span></p> - -<p>A tunic of cotton cloth reached to his knees. It was -brown, and upon it were painted zigzag white lines representing -lightning. Over one shoulder was a yellow -scarf upon which the same design was repeated, and on -his feet were beautifully beaded moccasins, over which -his grandmother had bent for weeks, that they might be -ready when the time should come for her favorite’s adoption -into the ranks of the men. Around his neck, securely -tied in a little buckskin bag, hung a charm, an -exquisite turquoise, blue as the spring skies and half as -large as a swallow’s egg. Old Tcua had fastened this on -with trembling fingers as Kwasa left her to descend to -the kiva, saying as she did so:</p> - -<p>“It is for luck. My father had it from an Antelope -priest far to the south. It is yours from this day.”</p> - -<p>But Tcua did not know that Kwasa had another charm -which to his boyish imagination was more potent than -the turquoise. Fastened in a fold of his belt were three -red and white sticks of cane, and as the lad sat waiting -on the ledge in the kiva he said to himself:</p> - -<p>“I am glad I kept the dice: they have brought me -much of good.”</p> - -<p>He felt something thrust into his hand, and looking at -it as closely as he could through the eye-slits in his mask, -he saw it was a prayer-plume, or a short stick to which -were fastened four feathers, white for the north, red for -the east, yellow for the west and green for the south. -This he knew he was to carry in the solemn ceremonies -to follow, as an invocation to the deities who dwell at -the four quarters of the earth.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum">[20]</span></p> - -<p>“Come,” said the masked figure that had brought the -prayer-plume, “the gods wait for us.”</p> - -<p>At the word, Kwasa slipped down from his seat and -took his place in a long line of youths and men which -was being formed at one end of the kiva. He saw Wiki, -also carrying a prayer-plume, and wearing a beaver’s -mask. In the weird, flickering light from the fire at one -end of the chamber he could not distinguish many that -he knew, and this, together with the strangeness of the -sacred mysteries in which he was about to play a part, -awed and half frightened him.</p> - -<p>As the line formed the participants stamped softly -upon the ground with their moccasined feet, not advancing, -but marking time to a wild and monotonous chant -which was accentuated by the rattling of small gourds -in the hands of the priests and their throaty “hi-yi-yi” -as they moved with cat-like tread about the sipapuh in -the middle of the kiva.</p> - -<p>At last the line began to move forward. Mosu took -his place at the head and led it around the outer edge of -the kiva, close to the ledge. Round and round they -marched, each time drawing a little closer to the sipapuh. -At last they formed a compact row about the sacred opening, -and in this way encircled it four times more, each -in passing stamping his foot on the stone slab as a hint -to the listening gods that their attention was asked. At -last, at a sign from Mosu, the line halted.</p> - -<p>And now came the supreme moment. The participant -who was to be most highly honored was to be chosen to -hold the sacred bowl above the sipapuh while from the<span class="pagenum">[21]</span> -mouth of the great snake effigy which was suspended -from above should drop the Kawa-blessed seeds for planting. -Everyone in the circle fixed his eyes upon Mosu, -each secretly hoping that some deed of his own might be -thought worthy such honored recognition.</p> - -<p>Kwasa held his breath with the rest, wondering which -one of all the line should be adjudged the most worthy. -And for a moment the tumultuous beating of his heart -made him faint and dizzy as Mosu, beckoning to him and -speaking his name, put the great red and black bowl in -his hands.</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="Ref_023" style="max-width: 40.625em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/i023.jpg" alt=""> - <div class="caption"><p class="center">“<a href="#BRef_023">Trembling till he could hardly stand, Kwasa extended his arms until the -bowl was directly above the opening.</a>”</p></div> -</div> - -<p><a id="BRef_023" href="#Ref_023">Trembling till he could hardly stand, Kwasa, at a sign -from the priest, extended his arms until the bowl was -directly above the opening</a> in the slab and under the -swinging head of the hollow effigy above. Then through -the tube came the seeds, first the yellow and white corn, -then the beans, the squash and melons, greenish cotton -seeds and rich-smelling brown grains of wheat. At last, -when the bowl was nearly full, there was poured down -the colored corn for the sacred meal, rounding and covering -the rest.</p> - -<p>Then Mosu motioned Kwasa to stand to one side, while -Wiki was called forward and given a similar bowl. Delighted -at his friend’s good fortune, Kwasa hardly heard -the muttered congratulations that greeted him as he -stepped back into the circle. But stealthily fingering his -belt he patted the three red and white canes, telling himself -that his own luck and Wiki’s had been unchangeably entwined -since the day they had tossed the dice in the court.</p> - -<p>But he had not time for more than a fleeting thought<span class="pagenum">[22]</span> -even for such momentous things, for something else was -happening above the sipapuh. This time the attendant -at the hatchway of the kiva poured through the snake -effigy into the sacred bowl a small stream of water, signifying -that thus would the snake deities of the clouds -bless the planted seeds.</p> - -<p>At another sign from Mosu, Wiki stepped back into the -circle, and Kwasa came forward to distribute to each person -a handful of the Kawa-blessed seeds. Then, taking a -short stick tipped with stiff turkey feathers, Mosu sprinkled -the water from Wiki’s bowl to the six cardinal points, -north, east, south, west, the zenith and the nadir.</p> - -<p>And the ceremony of the Blessing of Seeds was over.</p> - -<p>Kwasa was glad to get out of the stifling air of the -kiva and follow the rest up the ladder into the court -above, where the final great rain-prayer rite was to be -performed. In this he had no part, though he still retained -his mask and personated the pawik (duck) katcina -in the great circle that made the background for the -principal actors.</p> - -<p>Into this circle marched the long line of Snake and -Antelope priests, participants in this supreme drama of -the year. Very awe-inspiring they looked, their bodies -rubbed with red paint, their blackened chins rimmed -with a broad line of white and their bare arms glittering -with barbaric ornaments. To a sort of hissing chant -they marched about an improvised sipapuh which had -been located in the broadest part of the court, shaking -their rattles and stamping their feet upon the slab as they -passed. Four times they made the circuit, as in the<span class="pagenum">[23]</span> -ceremony in the kiva, then suddenly breaking into groups -of three they rushed to the bush-covered kisi near the -end of the circle. A group stopped for a moment before -this shrine, and in a moment proceeded, the foremost -priest, one of the Snake Clan, carrying in his mouth a -squirming snake. The Antelope priest who followed -him, in an apparent frenzy of excitement, waved a feathered -prayer-stick to and fro to attract the reptile’s attention, -but the snake only coiled the more tightly about the -head and shoulders of the carrier. One after another -each group paused at the kisi and secured one of the -wriggling reptiles.</p> - -<p>Round and round they marched, and then, at a sign -from Mosu, an attendant suddenly darted forward and -outlined a circle on the floor with sacred meal. Into -this the snakes were dropped, to be sprinkled with meal -as they fell. A wild scramble ensued, and in a few minutes -the snakes were recaptured by the third priests of -the groups, who darted across the court and down the -niche stairway to replace the reptiles in their native -dens. From there they would carry the prayers for rain -to the deities of the clouds, the lightning and the thunder, -who would thus be brought to bless the crops and -insure abundance for the coming year.</p> - -<p>“And now we are done with games,” said Wiki softly, -as he and Kwasa descended the ladder into the kiva to -remove their masks and deposit their prayer-plumes before -the sanded altar at the end of the chamber.</p> - -<p>“Yes,” returned Kwasa soberly, “but I shall keep the -dice. They have brought us good luck.”</p> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum">[24]</span></p> -<h2 class="nobreak" id="CHAPTER_V">CHAPTER V -<br><span class="cheaderfont">In the Far Fields</span></h2> -</div> - - -<p>Spring in the canyons! How good the warm, moist -air felt after the rains, and how bright and fresh the -young grass looked along the little river so far below the -cliff village. The rusty red of the pinons and oaks, and -of the dull little cedars, too, had been turned to deep, -rich green, and the yucca tufts which clambered bravely -almost to the top of the gorge were sending up new -lances of vivid color. Life was in the air, and it stirred -even the oldest people of the cliff village to a keen interest -in the year’s greatest event.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum">[25]</span></p> - -<p>There was a great stir in the court. On every terrace, -too, were girls and women at work, tying the sharp new -ironwood planting sticks into bundles and shelling the -sacred colored corn which was to be planted in a specially -prepared corner of the field. Great baskets and -bags were filled with food: piki, and pounded acorns -baked in sheets with meal, and strips of hard, dry meat. -There were cakes of buffalo meat, too, pounded fine, and -bags of dried peaches, and beans for eating as well as -planting. For from now on until the crop was ready for -harvest men must stay in the far-away fields to guard as -well as work.</p> - -<p>For the first time Kwasa and Wiki were to go with the -men. They strutted about the plaza importantly, one -minute imitating the stately manners of Honau and the -other men, the next strongly tempted to join in the games -of leap-frog and hunt-the-deer that were being carried on -in the crannies of the great building. Strong as the -temptation was, however, they would not have yielded -to it for the world, lest in the eyes of the other lads they -should lose some of their newly acquired dignity.</p> - -<p>The great field lay far away to the south of the village, -beyond where the canyon opened out into the wider -valley. For many years the same ground had been cultivated -by the Clan, and on every side were evidences of -the painstaking and careful work that had made possible -the abundance of grain the Cliff people had enjoyed from -year to year. On a gentle slope beyond the field was a -scattering orchard of peach trees, each carefully placed -in some particularly fertile spot. From a great rock<span class="pagenum">[26]</span> -reservoir on the hill above, a ditch ran down to the fields, -separating as it reached the edge into many small passways -for water, which could thus be turned upon the -growing crop should the gods, whose aid had been so -earnestly invoked, neglect to send rain enough. Along -the lower edge of the field ran a long, low clay wall or -ledge, designed to keep the water thus led into the planted -land from wasting by running too far down the slope.</p> - -<p>How good the brown earth smelled as the sharp planting -sticks turned up the moist soil to make fine, soft beds -for the precious seeds. Where the soil was heavy and -came up in clods, old Honau, the master of the planting, -showed Kwasa and Wiki how to follow behind the seed -scatterers and smash the lumps with stone mauls tied to -the ends of long sticks. They were instructed, too, how -to clean the winter’s wash of mud out of the waterways, -and how to repair the lower wall where it had washed -away.</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp99" style="max-width: 40.625em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/i029.jpg" alt=""> - <div class="caption"><p class="center">Cliff men going down to work in the fields. The watch tower is seen in -the background.</p></div> -</div> - -<p>A round tower built of sandstone blocks stood on a -jutting point of rock far above the fertile valley. Adjoining -it was a low, oblong room fitted with two small -openings. This was both guard and shelter. From the -tower a watcher kept constant lookout, for the men were -far from home and unprotected by natural walls, as they -were in the cliff village, and a sudden rush of enemies -from any of the many intersecting canyons might result -in a terrible loss of life. The watcher was not Bimba, -however, who could not be spared from the watch tower -above the village, where long usage had made him familiar -with every crack and crevice of the hills and valleys<span class="pagenum">[27]</span> -within the sweep of his sharp eyes, until not even a rabbit -could cross an open spot undiscovered. Now that -the men were gone it was more important than ever to -have a trusted and experienced watcher to guard the -women and children. So the guardian in the tower above -the great field was not Bimba, but Haida, who, next after -the veteran himself, had the sharpest eyes in the clan.</p> - -<p>No alarm came, however, to mar the joy of the planting -time. Day after day the men worked on, cleaning -away every weed and bush as they went, and seeing that -every one of the treasured seeds had its proper chance -to grow and thrive. For upon the crop must depend the -lives of all the next winter. Though they went on occasional -long hunts, the Cliff men were not, like their -neighbors and enemies, the Utes and Apaches, dependent -upon game for the greater part of their living. Corn was -the main food of the people of the cliffs, and whether -parched to be eaten whole, or ground in three-parted -stone metates to be made into the great thin sheets of -piki, or paper bread, it formed the staff of life for them. -Hence the great importance of every seed-grain, for the -winters in the canyons were long and there were many -mouths to feed.</p> - -<p>There were long days of work, and weary nights when -the men lay down in the stone shelter adjoining the -watch tower with aching muscles but hopeful hearts; -but at last every seed was in. The irrigating channels -were straight and clean, and the reservoir, as they had -ascertained, was two-thirds full of water. Even so soon -the favor of the gods seemed sure, for twice since the<span class="pagenum">[28]</span> -planting had begun good rains had fallen, leaving the -earth dark and mellow and rich with promise.</p> - -<p>There must be one more thing done, however, before -they could return to the village for the short stay possible -between the planting and the working of the crop. -Two days before a messenger had been sent to tell Mosu -that the planting was nearly done, and hardly was the -last row finished when they saw him coming. In his -hands he carried a bowl of sacred meal, and upon his -forehead was the mystic raincloud symbol, colored, like -the feathers in the prayer-plume an attendant carried behind -him, with red, green, yellow, and white pigments. -His tunic of beautifully-dressed deerskin was also decorated -with the symbols of the cloud and the sun, while -the snake-like lightning symbols were painted in white -upon his powerful brown arms. A second attendant bore -a great bundle of prayer-plumes, and a third a bowl of -water and a short, stiff brush of turkey feathers.</p> - -<p>Solemnly the planters met Mosu as he came toward -them. Falling into line behind him they marched solemnly -around the field, and back to the center where a -hole had been dug and a stone slab placed over it in imitation -of the sipapuh in the kiva. Here they formed into -a hollow square, each side facing a point of the compass. -The attendant distributed the prayer-plumes, which each -man held high in his left hand as Mosu scattered the -sacred meal to north, east, south and west, the zenith -and the nadir. Then into the bowl of water he dipped -the turkey-feather brush, sprinkling the earth toward -the cardinal points. Marching about the improvised sipapuh<span class="pagenum">[29]</span> -each man stamped upon it in passing. Then, -stooping reverently, they laid the prayer-plumes underneath -the slab that covered the excavation, and the ceremony -was over.</p> - -<p>“I wonder where Sado is,” said Wiki suddenly, as the -boys passed the spring at the head of the canyon on their -way home.</p> - -<p>“I hope we may see him again some time,” returned -Kwasa. “Do you suppose he has danced in the kiva yet?”</p> - -<p>“Sometimes I wish we had not been ‘adopted,’” said -Wiki almost regretfully, “for I would like to throw the -dice again.”</p> - -<p>“Well, why not?” laughed Kwasa. “The men play at -that game, and I have never shown you old Honau’s -trick. Besides, here are the dice. Let us hurry home.”</p> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum">[30]</span></p> -<h2 class="nobreak" id="CHAPTER_VI">CHAPTER VI -<br><span class="cheaderfont">The Luck of the Dice</span></h2> -</div> - - -<p>The summer passed pleasantly in the village of the -Cliff. When the men went to the field to work the women -often accompanied them, helping in the cultivation -of the crop and gathering the wild berries and edible -plants that grew in profusion in the fertile valley. In -baskets swung from their heads by woven and padded -bands they carried the ripened peaches up the steep -stairs, spreading them out along the stone ledges to dry.</p> - -<p>There was other work, too, that must be done while -the weather was warm and pleasant. New earthenware -bowls must be made while they could be baked in the -summer sun. Garments of soft, exquisitely wrought -feather-cloth, and of fur strips wound on heavy cords and -woven into fabric, must be made ready for cold weather. -There were new rooms to be built, too, for the rapidly -increasing population of the village made the old quarters -too crowded for winter comfort. So the men brought -great gray and brown rocks from the slopes of the canyon, -carrying them suspended from head bands as the -women carried their baskets. These were carefully -chipped and dressed with the great stone mauls, and set -evenly and squarely into place, held there by layers of -mortar which no one except old Honau knew how to mix.<span class="pagenum">[31]</span> -Then the women made a thin, plaster-like cement from -colored earths and spread it on with their hands, smoothing -it down with many careful pats which left the prints -of slender brown fingers in many places on the wet wall. -Sometimes the rooms were brightened by wavy red and -yellow lines running bandwise just below the ceiling; -sometimes they were decorated with sacred symbols such -as might bring a peculiar blessing to the household living -in them. But always, whatever the inside might be, -the outside was cunningly wrought to look like the forbidding -walls of the cliff, gray, and dull yellow and brown, -with here and there mottled patches of subdued red, so -that an enemy might have hard work to spy them out in -passing through the canyon below.</p> - -<p>It was nearly harvest time, and the corn was already -ripening. Day after day the watcher in the field tower, -keen-eyed Haida, had reported everything well, until the -last lurking fears of even the old men were almost forgotten. -The storerooms were being repaired and made -ready for the new crop, and the men were working on a -larger granary, or storage cist, some distance below the -level of the cavern, where the heavy baskets of corn -might be emptied without carrying them up the last steep -third of the ascent.</p> - -<p>Then, early one morning, a wild-eyed messenger from -the field tower came hurtling up the niche stairs in the -gray light to report evil tidings. A band of savages, of -what race he could not say, had ridden their fleet ponies -down through the canyons that night, carrying off and -trampling down a considerable part of the precious crop.<span class="pagenum">[32]</span> -And what was worse, they had raided the very tower itself -and had left Haida, whose practised eyes had failed -to see them in the moon-blinded lower trail, silent on his -face with an arrow between his shoulders. The messenger -himself had escaped only by dropping quickly into -the farthest shadow of the adjoining shelter-room and -lying motionless against the darkest wall until the last -sound of the ponies’ drumming feet had died away in -the distance.</p> - -<p>Mosu quieted the panic-stricken people who crowded -about him in the early light as well as he could. One -thing was sure, if the people of the Cliff were not to -starve when the cold days came, the rest of the crop must -be saved. Wisely seeing in vigorous action the best -remedy for fear, he hastily organized men and women -into bands for taking care of what was left of the grain, -giving to the women the actual work of gathering that -the men might be left free to protect them.</p> - -<p>So, leaving the old men and smaller boys to look after -the village, and with many cautions to Bimba to keep -speedy messengers always ready to carry news of danger, -the harvest bands went silently down the steep stairs and -passed swiftly through the canyons to the great field. -Once there, no time was lost in stripping the ears from -the stalks and piling them into the wide-mouthed baskets -which the women carried on their backs, and in cutting -down the stalks with keen-edged flint knives to be carried -home in bundles on the shoulders of the big boys. -The wheat-heads were hastily snatched from their stems, -to be shelled out by busy fingers in the leisure hours of<span class="pagenum">[33]</span> -winter. They worked in nervous haste, casting fearful -glances up and down the canyon at every turn. From -the tower the new watchman who had taken dead Haida’s -place strained his eyes anxiously into vague distances, -intent upon guarding, even to his own death, those lives -so dependent upon his vigilance.</p> - -<p>Swiftly as they worked, and quickly as the many trips -to and from the village were made, it was many days before -all the crop was safe and the people could breathe -more easily in their well-guarded cavern home. But the -old air of careless gayety was gone, and in its place was -a constant atmosphere of apprehension. No one knew -when the bold savages, encouraged by their success in -the valley, might not undertake even so difficult a task -as the storming of the cliff fastness. Rumors, too, were -constantly afloat of murderous attacks on smaller outlying -cliff dwellings, and once a small party that had been -down the canyon to look for wild gourds came upon the -body of a Cliffman, apparently from one of those distant -houses, lying stiff with a Ute arrow in his breast.</p> - -<p>In a consultation of the old men it was at last decided -that the best thing to be done was to send messengers to -the Rainbow and Bear Clans on the south, which were -probably so far free from attack, and to the Seven Cities -on the North, asking them to be ready to send aid should -the threatened danger fall. Mosu, standing stern and -tall in the middle of the court, told the people of this decision -and asked for messengers.</p> - -<p>“The Walpi road is a dangerous one,” he said, “to be -undertaken by no one who is afraid to lose his life. He<span class="pagenum">[34]</span> -must go alone, for one is as safe as ten, and we have no -lives to risk without great reason. I would not willingly -send any forth to such chance of death, but if one -will offer himself—”</p> - -<p>Before he could finish the sentence fifty men and youths -had stepped forward. Mosu looked at them with proud sadness.</p> - -<p>“Your lives are precious to us,” he said, his eyes -kindling, “and there are many among you who cannot be -spared. Let those who have wives and children step -back, for them we cannot lose.”</p> - -<p>Reluctantly more than half of those who had come forth -drew back again. There remained only the young men, -straight, supple, earnest-eyed lads who were the very -flower of the village. In their brown faces was no sign -of fear. Mosu scanned them, one by one, his lips set in -a thin line, his eyes tenderly kind.</p> - -<p>“It is danger we offer you,” he said slowly, “but it is -also the greatest honor we can give. Choose among -yourselves who shall be sent, for you know your own -worth.”</p> - -<p>Kwasa stepped forward eagerly.</p> - -<p>“Let us toss the dice,” he begged, “and hang our fortunes -on the first who shall throw the whites.”</p> - -<p>Mosu thought a moment. The idea appealed to him in -two ways; for one thing, it removed from anyone the responsibility -of sending a comrade forth to possible death, -and for another he knew the gambling spirit was strong -in every Cliffman’s breast and the decision of the dice -would never be disputed.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum">[35]</span></p> - -<p>“Who has dice?” asked Mosu, turning to the onlookers.</p> - -<p>Kwasa undid a fold of his belt and gave the priest the -three sticks of cane he had carried so long.</p> - -<p>Mosu handed them to the boy who stood nearest. He -tossed them nervously, amid a breathless silence. As they -came down showing two reds and one white, a woman on -the lower terrace gave a sobbing cry. Turning toward -her, his lip quivering with disappointment, the lad saw his -mother, and bounded across the court to where she sat.</p> - -<p>“The gods be praised—they have not taken my son -from me,” she said, throwing her arms about his neck.</p> - -<p>“But I would have served them well,” he cried, trying -hard to keep back unmanly tears.</p> - -<p>One after another the youths came forward to try their -fortunes with the dice. But no one threw the whites together. -Wiki, trembling with eagerness, found them at -his feet with all the red sides up, and gave place to Kwasa, -who came next.</p> - -<p>Carefully placing the sticks in his fingers, and with a -quick glance at old Honau, who stood watching with -much interest, Kwasa spun the dice high in the air. And -when they came down every one knew that the danger -and the honor had fallen to Kwasa by the favor of the -gods. Tcua, his old grandmother, scorning the weakness -that fought its way to her moist eyes, called him -proudly to her side and touched the turquoise at his throat.</p> - -<p>“You will come back safe—it is a charm,” she said -confidently.</p> - -<p>But once more Kwasa hid the cane strips carefully in -his belt.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum">[36]</span></p> - -<p>“Yes, I will come back safe—for I have a charm,” he -said, smiling.</p> - -<p>So Kwasa took the long trail toward the Seven Cities -alone and in the dark, for so it was thought best, since -he knew the first part of the way well and would need -daylight more after coming to the unknown country. -And because he had thrown the chance of next value, -Wiki was given the place of lesser honor, because of -lesser danger, that of messenger to the Clans of the Rainbow -and the Bear.</p> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum">[37]</span></p> -<h2 class="nobreak" id="CHAPTER_VII">CHAPTER VII -<br><span class="cheaderfont">On the Walpi Trail</span></h2> -</div> - - -<p>If Kwasa had not felt so proud of the honor that had -been shown him, he might have feared to go down the -long, dark canyons alone. But, boylike, his thoughts -were not so much on the danger of his task as they were -upon the rewards he might hope for when it was done, -for he knew the people of the Cliffs would pay royal honors -where they were due. And he never thought of failure, -for surely one so high in favor with the gods could -not fail, however great the task.</p> - -<p>So Kwasa picked his way with a light heart along the -first well-known part of the journey. He wanted to be -far from home by daybreak, and ready to undertake the<span class="pagenum">[38]</span> -unknown paths where he would need all his sharpness -of sight to keep the right direction. He had received -many and definite instructions from the old men, who -knew the Walpi road well, and he felt confident of his -ability to reach the Seven Cities without loss of time.</p> - -<p>The sun came up, hot and strong, just as he emerged -from the shadows of the last wooded canyon and stepped -forth upon the wide-spaced plateau that stretched away -toward Walpi. There was no chance for cover now, he -realized, a little startled at the thought, for he had not -before considered this difference between a trail on the -plateau and one through the canyons. If he had not been -afraid both of delay and of losing the trail if he should -attempt to follow it by night he would have liked to lie -down in a hidden nook and wait for dusk again rather -than to run the risk of a race across such open and dangerous -country by day. But he knew no time should be -lost, so, eating his breakfast from his food-bag as he -went along, he swung forward with the long, easy strides -of one who is accustomed to travel much by foot.</p> - -<p>It was the middle of the forenoon when a fitful gust of -wind brought a strange, regular, pounding sound to his -ears. He could not think what it was. Again it came, -louder than before, a sharp, ringing “clickety-clicket,” -that brought him to a standstill. Then, too late for flight -or any chance of concealment, he recognized the sound as -one that he had never heard more than once or twice in -his life—the beating of hard-ridden ponies’ hoofs.</p> - -<p>In another minute he saw them coming, a cloud of dark, -terrible riders in fantastic head-dress, with their almost<span class="pagenum">[39]</span> -naked bodies horribly striped and scarred. At a glance -he knew them, though his only idea of them had been -formed from the tales he had heard the men tell, and in -the same moment gave himself up for lost. For they -were the hated enemies whose awful deeds made the -blood run cold at the barest thought of them—the Utes -of the northeastern mountains.</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="Ref_042" style="max-width: 40.625em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/i042.jpg" alt=""> - <div class="caption"><p class="center"><a href="#BRef_042">Kwasa knew they had seen him</a>.</p></div> -</div> - -<p><a id="BRef_042" href="#Ref_042">Kwasa knew they had seen him</a>, so, giving up the hope -of hiding which had flitted momentarily through his -mind, he determined to stand his ground and sell his life -as dearly as he could. He ran a few steps from the trail -and placed his back against a jutting ledge of rock, at the -same time drawing his bow and setting one of his sharpest -arrows. Hardly had he time to make even this scanty -preparation when they were upon him, a yelling, death-dealing -whirlwind of fiendish faces and quick-footed, -fiery-eyed ponies.</p> - -<p>With an agonized thought of home, of the trust in which -he now must fail, and of the terrible danger which was -sweeping down upon the Cliff people, he drew his arrow -back to the head. Excited as he was, he took steady -aim, and a painted warrior slid limply from his pony’s -neck and rolled over in the dust. As he hastily fitted -another arrow he felt a stinging pain in his throat, his -hand lost its strength, the sky reeled about him and -turned dark—and then he knew no more.</p> - -<p>When he came to himself again he lay where he had -fallen on his face in the red dust of the plateau. How -sick and dizzy he felt! His first thought was to wonder -how he came there; the next to remember that the Utes<span class="pagenum">[40]</span> -were headed straight for the canyons, on what awful errand -he did not dare to think. He knew the Cliff village -could be held for some time, but would not these -fiendish foes at last be able to overcome the peaceful, unwarlike -men of the Cliffs, no matter what their advantages -might be? Help must be brought, and brought -quickly. A glance at the sun assured him that he had -not long lain unconscious, even though he knew he must -have been left for dead. With a great effort he pulled -himself to his feet. How black the sunlight grew! And -what was that queer, choking thing that seemed to be -gripping him by the throat? Putting up his hand, he -felt the shaft of an arrow which had pierced his neck, -running through until the point projected above his -shoulders. With a shudder he tried to pull it out, but -the pain turned him sick again. Then, too, even through -the turmoil of his thoughts he realized that to remove -the arrow would mean a great and weakening loss of -blood. So, blinded and choking as he was, the brave lad -stumbled along as fast as he could, imploring the gods -to give him strength to reach Walpi and send aid to his -people before he should die.</p> - -<p>It seemed ages before he saw the dark outlines of the -pueblo of Walpi rising above the rounded crest of the -mesa. But it was not so far from where he fell after all, -for he had been nearer than he believed when the attack -occurred. He could never quite remember how things -happened after that. He had a vague memory of Sado’s -voice calling out in sharp surprise, of telling his story -quickly between the gasps of his failing breath, and of<span class="pagenum">[41]</span> -a sudden great bustle in the court of the pueblo. Only -one thing he remembered distinctly, the sudden idea that -flashed through his mind at sight of Sado.</p> - -<p>“The hidden path,” he gasped, “tell them to take the -hidden path. It will bring them up from the back. No -one knows it except—except—” and here in spite of -himself his voice trailed off into silence and the blindness -that was worse than midnight came over his eyes -again.</p> - -<p>As in a dream he heard Sado’s excited reply:</p> - -<p>“I know—I know—I will lead them. Have no fear, -for we will save your people yet!”</p> - -<p>And then gentle hands laid him down, and he thought -no more except that it was very good to rest.</p> - -<p>The terrible Battle of the Cliffs had been fought and -done for many weeks before Kwasa was strong enough to -hear about it. For the arrow in his throat had come -very near indeed to causing his death, and only the tender -nursing of careful and practised hands could have -brought him back to life and strength again. There was -one pair of slim, soft hands that he always knew, even -through his delirium, so gentle and capable were they, -and so soothingly did they place upon his poor, torn -throat the cooling poultices of pounded herbs. After he -grew able to think again he fell to wondering what the -face would be like that belonged with such dear, gentle -fingers; but so weary and listless was he that even after -the thought came it was a long time before he opened -his eyes to see. But when he did look up into the beautiful -young face that bent so anxiously above him, he<span class="pagenum">[42]</span> -knew that one of two things would surely happen—either -he would stay at Walpi forever, or he would not go back -to the canyons alone.</p> - -<p>And that day Kwasa heard the story of the Battle of -the Cliffs. It was Sado who told it, helping the words -with vivid gestures of his long, brown fingers. He told -how bravely the men of the village had held their own -for many long and fearful hours, even against the death-bearing -poisoned arrows of their foes; and how, hard -pressed as they were and overwhelmed by numbers, as -the Utes swarmed up the niche stairway, the men who -stood along the ledge sold their lives at a heavy price. -And then, just as the Utes were sounding their wild -whoop of final victory, and were pressing upward unchecked -over the narrow stair, so slippery with the horrible -slime of blood, the fresh band of fighters which -Sado had led secretly up the hidden path sounded their -battle cry from the back of the long court into which they -had come unseen. At this the savages had wavered a -moment in surprise, and then, seeing the lithe brown -bodies of the men of Walpi, whose prowess they knew of -old, had broken and fled, many of them losing their foothold -and falling down the face of the cliff to a horrible -death on the rocks below. And just then had come up -from the south the bands from the Rainbow and Bear -Clans, summoned by Wiki, and before the sun had set -upon the narrow valley the grass was stained with a -deeper red than that of the red dust. Only two Ute -horsemen were able to break through the terrible ring of -death that shut them in and get away on their fleet ponies.<span class="pagenum">[43]</span> -And that, said Sado, was just as it should be, for -with the story of that disastrous fight as a warning it -would be long before the northern tribes would attempt -to take revenge.</p> - -<p>The day came at last when Kwasa was strong enough -to go back to his people. Glad as he was at the thought -of seeing them all again, a greater gladness lay at his -heart—a joy even greater than all the honor that his -grateful people were waiting to give could bring. For -Ani, the gentle sister of Sado, who had nursed the -stricken messenger so faithfully and well, was easily persuaded -that her services might still be needed by her -brave young patient. So she decided to go back across -the mesas and down the cool, dusky canyon paths with -him, lest evil should again befall him.</p> - -<p>So it happened that when the rejoicing people of the -Cliffs came down the niche stairway to welcome their -honored hero, they took also to their grateful hearts the -dark-eyed girl who had saved him from death for them. -And not the less did they love her because she was the -sister of Sado, who had brought them help in their hour -of greatest need.</p> - -<p>“But what of Wiki?” said Kwasa, when they would -have overwhelmed him with loving honors.</p> - -<p>“He has had his share,” answered Wiki himself, pressing -the hand of his old playfellow affectionately. “Besides, -my little deed needed no honor, since it did not -require a particularly stout heart to run an errand where -there was no danger. Yet Mosu has promised me no -less a gift than that I should lead the dance of the priests<span class="pagenum">[44]</span> -in his own place at the next Blessing of Seeds. And he -says he will make a priest of me when the time comes. -Besides—” he paused in some confusion, and beckoned -to a pretty brown maiden who stood not far away.</p> - -<p>“Besides?” prompted Kwasa with a smile.</p> - -<p>“Not all the maidens in the world dwell on the mesa -of the Seven Cities,” blurted out Wiki, taking the girl’s -slender fingers in his own.</p> - -<p>Kwasa laughed, then his face grew grave.</p> - -<p>“Yet it was well for me that one maid dwelt there,” -he said softly, looking up into Ani’s sweet face with -adoring eyes.</p> - -<hr class="tb x-ebookmaker-drop"> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p class="center xlargefont boldfont">INSTRUCTOR LITERATURE SERIES</p> - -<p class="center boldfont">7c—Supplementary Readers and Classics for all Grades—7c</p> - -<div class="boxgrade"> - -<p class="center pminus1">☞ <em>This list is constantly being added to. If a substantial number of books are to be ordered, or if -other titles than those shown here are desired, send for latest list.</em></p> -<p class="subgrade">FIRST GRADE</p> - -<p class="subtitl">Fables and Myths</p> - -<p class="tbl2">*6 Fairy Stories of the Moon—<em>Maguire</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">*27 Eleven Fables from Æsop—<em>Reiter</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">*28 More Fables from Æsop—<em>Reiter</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">*29 Indian Myths—<em>Bush</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*140 Nursery Tales—<em>Taylor</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*288 Primer from Fableland—<em>Maguire</em></p> - -<p class="subtitl">Nature</p> - -<p class="tbl2">*1 Little Plant People—Part I—<em>Chase</em></p> -<p class="tbl2">*2 Little Plant People—Part II—<em>Chase</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">*30 Story of a Sunbeam—<em>Miller</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">*31 Kitty Mittens and Her Friends—<em>Chase</em></p> - -<p class="subtitl">History</p> - -<p class="tbl3">*32 Patriotic Stories—<em>Reiter</em></p> - -<p class="subtitl">Literature</p> - -<p class="tbl4">*104 Mother Goose Reader—<em>Faxon</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*228 First Term Primer—<em>Maguire</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*230 Rhyme and Jingle Reader for Beginners</p> -<p class="tbl4">*245 Three Billy Goats Gruff and Other Stories</p> - -<p class="subgrade">SECOND GRADE</p> - -<p class="subtitl">Fables and Myths</p> - -<p class="tbl3">*33 Stories from Andersen—<em>Taylor</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">*34 Stories from Grimm—<em>Taylor</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">*36 Little Red Riding Hood—<em>Reiter</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">*37 Jack and the Beanstalk—<em>Reiter</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">*38 Adventures of a Brownie—<em>Reiter</em></p> - -<p class="subtitl">Nature and Industry</p> - -<p class="tbl2">*3 Little Workers (Animal Stories)—<em>Chase</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">*39 Little Wood Friends—<em>Mayne</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">*40 Wings and Stings—<em>Halifax</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">*41 Story of Wool—<em>Mayne</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">*42 Bird Stories from the Poets—<em>Jollie</em></p> - -<p class="subtitl">History and Biography</p> - -<p class="tbl3">*43 Story of the Mayflower—<em>McCabe</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">*45 Boyhood of Washington—<em>Reiter</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*204 Boyhood of Lincoln—<em>Reiter</em></p> - -<p class="subtitl">Literature</p> - -<p class="tbl3">*72 Bow-Wow and Mew-Mew—<em>Craik</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*152 Child’s Garden of Verses—<em>Stevenson</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*206 Picture Study Stories for Little Children</p> -<p class="tbl4">*220 Story of the Christ Child—<em>Hushower</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*262 Four Little Cotton Tails—<em>Smith</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*268 Four Little Cotton Tails in Winter—<em>Smith</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*269 Four Little Cotton Tails at Play—<em>Smith</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*270 Four Little Cotton Tails in Vacation—<em>Smith</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*290 Fuzz in Japan—A Child Life Reader</p> -<p class="tbl4">*300 Four Little Bushy Tails—<em>Smith</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*301 Patriotic Bushy Tails—<em>Smith</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*302 Tinkle Bell and Other Stories—<em>Smith</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*303 The Rainbow Fairy—<em>Smith</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*308 Story of Peter Rabbit—<em>Potter</em></p> - -<p class="subgrade">THIRD GRADE</p> - -<p class="subtitl">Fables and Myths</p> - -<p class="tbl3">*46 Puss in Boots and Cinderella—<em>Reiter</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">*47 Greek Myths—<em>Klingensmith</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">*48 Nature Myths—<em>Metcalfe</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">*50 Reynard the Fox—<em>Best</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*102 Thumbelina and Dream Stories—<em>Reiter</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*146 Sleeping Beauty and Other Stories</p> -<p class="tbl3">174 Sun Myths—<em>Reiter</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">175 Norse Legends, I—<em>Reiter</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">176 Norse Legends, II—<em>Reiter</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*177 Legends of the Rhineland—<em>McCabe</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*282 Siegfried and Other Rhine Legends</p> -<p class="tbl4">*289 The Snow Man and Other Stories</p> -<p class="tbl4">*292 East of the Sun and West of the Moon</p> - -<p class="subtitl">Nature and Industry</p> - -<p class="tbl3">*49 Buds, Stems and Fruits—<em>Mayne</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">*51 Story of Flax—<em>Mayne</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">*52 Story of Glass—<em>Hanson</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">*53 Story of a Little Water Drop—<em>Mayne</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*133 Aunt Martha’s Corner Cupboard—Part I. Story of Tea and the Teacup</p> -<p class="tbl4">*135 Little People of the Hills—<em>Chase</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*137 Aunt Martha’s Corner Cupboard—Part II. Story of Sugar, Coffee and Salt</p> -<p class="tbl4">*138 Aunt Martha’s Corner Cupboard—Part III. Story of Rice, Currants and Honey</p> -<p class="tbl4">*203 Little Plant People of the Waterways—<em>Chase</em></p> - -<p class="subtitl">History and Biography</p> - -<p class="tbl2">*4 Story of Washington—<em>Reiter</em></p> -<p class="tbl2">*7 Story of Longfellow—<em>McCabe</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">*21 Story of the Pilgrims—<em>Powers</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">*44 Famous Early Americans (Smith, Standish, Penn)—<em>Bush</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">*54 Story of Columbus—<em>McCabe</em></p> -<p class="tbl2">55 Story of Whittier—<em>McCabe</em></p> -<p class="tbl2">57 Story of Louisa M. Alcott—<em>Bush</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">*59 Story of the Boston Tea Party—<em>McCabe</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">*60 Children of the Northland—<em>Bush</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">*62 Children of the South Lands—I (Florida, Cuba, Puerto Rico)—<em>McFee</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">*63 Children of the South Lands—II (Africa, Hawaii, The Philippines)—<em>McFee</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">*64 Child Life in the Colonies—I (New Amsterdam)—<em>Baker</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">*65 Child Life in the Colonies—II (Pennsylvania)—<em>Baker</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">*66 Child Life in the Colonies—III (Virginia)</p> -<p class="tbl3">*68 Stories of the Revolution—I (Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys)—<em>McCabe</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">*69 Stories of the Revolution—II (Around Philadelphia)—<em>McCabe</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">*70 Stories of the Revolution—III (Marion, the Swamp Fox)—<em>McCabe</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*132 Story of Franklin—<em>Faris</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*164 The Little Brown Baby and Other Babies</p> -<p class="tbl4">*165 Gemila, the Child of the Desert</p> -<p class="tbl4">*166 Louise on the Rhine and in Her New Home (<em>Nos. 164, 165, 166 are the stories from “Seven Little Sisters” by Jane Andrews</em>)</p> -<p class="tbl4">*167 Famous Artists—I—(Landseer and Bonheur)</p> - -<p class="subtitl">Literature</p> - -<p class="tbl3">*35 Little Goody Two Shoes</p> -<p class="tbl2">58 Selections from Alice and Phoebe Cary</p> -<p class="tbl3">*67 The Story of Robinson Crusoe—<em>Bush</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">*71 Selections from Hiawatha (Five Grades)</p> -<p class="tbl4">*227 Our Animal Friends: How to Treat Them</p> -<p class="tbl4">*233 Poems Worth Knowing—Book I—Primary</p> - -<p class="subgrade">FOURTH GRADE</p> - -<p class="subtitl">Nature and Industry</p> - -<p class="tbl3">*75 Story of Coal—<em>McKane</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">*76 Story of Wheat—<em>Halifax</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">*77 Story of Cotton—<em>Brown</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*134 Conquests of Little Plant People—<em>Chase</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*136 Peeps into Bird Nooks—I—<em>McFee</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*181 Stories of the Stars—<em>McFee</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*205 Eyes and No Eyes and The Three Giants</p> - -<p class="subtitl">History and Biography</p> - -<p class="tbl2">*5 Story of Lincoln—<em>Reiter</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">*56 Indian Children Tales—<em>Bush</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">*78 Stories of the Backwoods—<em>Reiter</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">*79 A Little New England Viking—<em>Baker</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">*81 Story of De Soto—<em>Hatfield</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">*82 Story of Daniel Boone—<em>Reiter</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">*83 Story of Printing—<em>McCabe</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">*84 Story of David Crockett—<em>Reiter</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">*85 Story of Patrick Henry—<em>Littlefield</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">*86 American Inventors—I (Whitney, Fulton)</p> -<p class="tbl3">*87 American Inventors—II (Morse, Edison)</p> -<p class="tbl3">*88 American Naval Heroes (Jones, Perry, Farragut)—<em>Bush</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">*89 Fremont and Kit Carson—<em>Judd</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">*91 Story of Eugene Field—<em>McCabe</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*178 Story of Lexington and Bunker Hill—<em>Baker</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*182 Story of Joan of Arc—<em>McFee</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*207 Famous Artists—II—Reynolds and Murillo</p> -<p class="tbl4">*243 Famous Artists—III—Millet</p> -<p class="tbl4">*248 Makers of European History—<em>White</em></p> - -<p class="subtitl">Literature</p> - -<p class="tbl3">*90 Fifteen Selections from Longfellow—(Village Blacksmith, Children’s Hour, etc.)</p> -<p class="tbl3">*95 Japanese Myths and Legends—<em>McFee</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*103 Stories from the Old Testament—<em>McFee</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*111 Water Babies (Abridged)—<em>Kingsley</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*159 Little Lame Prince (Cond.)—<em>Mulock</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*171 Tolmi of the Tree-Tops—<em>Grimes</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*172 Labu the Little Lake Dweller—<em>Grimes</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*173 Tara of the Tents—<em>Grimes</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*195 Night before Christmas and Other Christmas Poems and Stories (Any Grade)</p> -<p class="tbl4">*201 Alice’s First Adventures in Wonderland</p> -<p class="tbl4">*202 Alice’s Further Adventures in Wonderland</p> -<p class="tbl4">*256 Bolo the Cave Boy—<em>Grimes</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*257 Kwasa the Cliff Dweller—<em>Grimes</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*291 Voyage to Lilliput (Abridged)—<em>Swift</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*293 Hansel and Grettel, and Pretty Goldilocks</p> -<p class="tbl4">*304 Story Lessons in Everyday Manners—<em>Bailey</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*312 Legends from Many Lands—<em>Bailey</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*314 The Enchanted Bugle and Other Stories</p> - -<p class="subgrade">FIFTH GRADE</p> - -<p class="subtitl">Nature and Industry</p> - -<p class="tbl3">*92 Animal Life in the Sea—<em>Reiter</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">*93 Story of Silk—<em>Brown</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">*94 Story of Sugar—<em>Reiter</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">*96 What We Drink (Tea, Coffee and Cocoa)</p> -<p class="tbl4">*139 Peeps into Bird Nooks—II</p> -<p class="tbl3">210 Snowdrops and Crocuses</p> -<p class="tbl3">263 The Sky Family—<em>Denton</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*280 Making of the World—<em>Herndon</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*281 Builders of the World—<em>Herndon</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*283 Stories of Time—<em>Bush</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*290 Story of King Corn—<em>Cooley</em></p> - -<p class="subtitl">History and Biography</p> - -<p class="tbl3">*16 Explorations of the Northwest</p> -<p class="tbl3">*80 Story of the Cabots—<em>McBride</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">*97 Stories of the Norsemen—<em>Hanson</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">*98 Story of Nathan Hale—<em>McCabe</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">*99 Story of Jefferson—<em>McCabe</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">100 Story of Bryant—<em>McFee</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*101 Story of Robert E. Lee—<em>McKane</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">105 Story of Canada—<em>McCabe</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*106 Story of Mexico—<em>McCabe</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*107 Story of Robert Louis Stevenson—<em>Bush</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">110 Story of Hawthorne—<em>McFee</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">112 Biographical Stories—<em>Hawthorne</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*141 Story of Grant—<em>McKane</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*144 Story of Steam—<em>McCabe</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*145 Story of McKinley—<em>McBride</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">157 Story of Dickens—<em>Smith</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*179 Story of the Flag—<em>Baker</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*185 Story of the First Crusade—<em>Mead</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">190 Story of Father Hennepin—<em>McBride</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">191 Story of La Salle—<em>McBride</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*217 Story of Florence Nightingale—<em>McFee</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*218 Story of Peter Cooper—<em>McFee</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*219 Little Stories of Discovery—<em>Halsey</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">232 Story of Shakespeare—<em>Grames</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*265 Four Little Discoverers in Panama—<em>Bush</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">274 Stories from Grandfather’s Chair—<em>Hawthorne</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*275 When Plymouth Colony Was Young</p> -<p class="tbl4">*287 Life in Colonial Days—<em>Tillinghast</em></p> - -<p class="subtitl">Literature</p> - -<p class="tbl2">*8 King of the Golden River—<em>Ruskin</em></p> -<p class="tbl2">*9 The Golden Touch—<em>Hawthorne</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">*61 Story of Sindbad the Sailor</p> -<p class="tbl4">*108 History in Verse</p> -<p class="tbl4">*113 Little Daffydowndilly and Other Stories</p> -<p class="tbl4">*180 Story of Aladdin and of Ali Baba—<em>Lewis</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*183 A Dog of Flanders—<em>De La Ramee</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*184 The Nurnberg Stove—<em>De La Ramee</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*186 Heroes from King Arthur—<em>Grames</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">194 Whittier’s Poems—Selected</p> -<p class="tbl4">*199 Jackanapes—<em>Ewing</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*200 The Child of Urbino—<em>De La Ramee</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">208 Heroes of Asgard—Selections—<em>Keary</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*212 Stories of Robin Hood—<em>Bush</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*234 Poems Worth Knowing—Book II—Inter.</p> -<p class="tbl4">*244 What Happened at the Zoo—<em>Bailey</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*250 At the Back of the North Wind, Selection from—<em>Macdonald</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">255 Chinese Fables and Stories—<em>Feltges</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*309 Moni the Goat Boy—<em>Spyri</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*313 In Nature’s Fairyland—<em>Bailey</em></p> - -<p class="subgrade">SIXTH GRADE</p> - -<p class="subtitl">Nature and Industry</p> - -<p class="tbl4">*109 Gifts of the Forests (Rubber, Cinchona, Resins, etc.)—<em>McFee</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">249 Flowers and Birds of Illinois—<em>Patterson</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*298 Story of Leather—<em>Peirce</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*299 Story of Iron—<em>Ogden</em></p> - -<p class="subtitl">Agricultural</p> - -<p class="tbl4">*271 Animal Husbandry, I—Horses and Cattle</p> -<p class="tbl4">*272 Animal Husbandry, II—Sheep and Swine</p> - -<p class="subtitl">Geography</p> - -<p class="tbl4">*114 Great European Cities—I (London-Paris)</p> -<p class="tbl4">*115 Great European Cities—II (Rome-Berlin)</p> -<p class="tbl4">*168 Great European Cities—III (St. Petersburg-Constantinople)—<em>Bush</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*246 What I Saw in Japan—<em>Griffis</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*247 The Chinese and Their Country—<em>Paulson</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*285 Story of Panama and the Canal—<em>Nida</em></p> - -<p class="subtitl">History and Biography</p> - -<p class="tbl3">*73 Four Great Musicians—<em>Bush</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">*74 Four More Great Musicians—<em>Bush</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*116 Old English Heroes (Alfred, Richard the Lion-Hearted, The Black Prince)—<em>Bush</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*117 Later English Heroes (Cromwell, Wellington, Gladstone)—<em>Bush</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*160 Heroes of the Revolution—<em>Tristram</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*163 Stories of Courage—<em>Bush</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">187 Lives of Webster and Clay—<em>Tristram</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*188 Story of Napoleon—<em>Bush</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*189 Stories of Heroism—<em>Bush</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*197 Story of Lafayette—<em>Bush</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">198 Story of Roger Williams—<em>Leighton</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*209 Lewis and Clark Expedition—<em>Herndon</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*224 Story of William Tell—<em>Hallock</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*253 Story of the Aeroplane—<em>Galbreath</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*266 Story of Belgium—<em>Griffis</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*267 Story of Wheels—<em>Bush</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*286 Story of Slavery—<em>Booker T. Washington</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*310 Story of Frances E. Willard—<em>Babcock</em></p> - -<p class="subtitl">Stories of the States</p> - -<p class="tbl3">508 Story of Florida—<em>Bauskett</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">509 Story of Georgia—<em>Derry</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">511 Story of Illinois—<em>Smith</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">512 Story of Indiana—<em>Clem</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">513 Story of Iowa—<em>McFee</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">515 Story of Kentucky—<em>Eubank</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">520 Story of Michigan—<em>Skinner</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">521 Story of Minnesota—<em>Skinner</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">523 Story of Missouri—<em>Pierce</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*525 Story of Nebraska—<em>Mears</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*528 Story of New Jersey—<em>Hutchinson</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">533 Story of Ohio—<em>Galbreath</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*536 Story of Pennsylvania—<em>March</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*540 Story of Tennessee—<em>Overall</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">542 Story of Utah—<em>Young</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">546 Story of West Virginia—<em>Shawkey</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">547 Story of Wisconsin—<em>Skinner</em></p> - -<p class="subtitl">Literature</p> - -<p class="tbl3">*10 The Snow Image—<em>Hawthorne</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">*11 Rip Van Winkle—<em>Irving</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">*12 Legend of Sleepy Hollow—<em>Irving</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">*22 Rab and His Friends—<em>Brown</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">*24 Three Golden Apples—<em>Hawthorne</em><a id="FNanchor_2" href="#Footnote_2" class="fnanchor">[2]</a></p> -<p class="tbl3">*25 The Miraculous Pitcher—<em>Hawthorne</em><a href="#Footnote_2" class="fnanchor">[2]</a></p> -<p class="tbl3">*26 The Minotaur—<em>Hawthorne</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*118 A Tale of the White Hills and Other Stories—<em>Hawthorne</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*119 Bryant’s Thanatopsis, and Other Poems</p> -<p class="tbl4">*120 Ten Selections from Longfellow—(Paul Revere’s Ride, The Skeleton in Armor, etc.)</p> -<p class="tbl4">*121 Selections from Holmes (The Wonderful One Hoss Shay, Old Ironsides, and Others)</p> -<p class="tbl4">*122 The Pied Piper of Hamelin—<em>Browning</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">161 The Great Carbuncle, Mr. Higginbotham’s Catastrophe, Snowflakes—<em>Hawthorne</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">162 The Pygmies—<em>Hawthorne</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*211 The Golden Fleece—<em>Hawthorne</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*222 Kingsley’s Greek Heroes—I. The Story of Perseus</p> -<p class="tbl4">*223 Kingsley’s Greek Heroes—II. The Story of Theseus</p> -<p class="tbl4">*225 Tennyson’s Poems—Selected (Any grade)</p> -<p class="tbl3">226 A Child’s Dream of a Star, and Other Stories</p> -<p class="tbl3">229 Responsive Bible Readings—<em>Zeller</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*258 The Pilgrim’s Progress (Abridged)—<em>Simons</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*264 The Story of Don Quixote—<em>Bush</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">277 Thrift Stories—<em>Benj. Franklin and Others</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*284 Story of Little Nell (Dickens)—<em>Smith</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">294 The Dragon’s Teeth—<em>Hawthorne</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*295 The Gentle Boy—<em>Hawthorne</em></p> - -<p class="subgrade" style="margin-bottom:0.5em">SEVENTH GRADE</p> - -<p class="tbl3">*13 Courtship of Miles Standish—<em>Longfellow</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">*14 Evangeline—<em>Longfellow</em><a href="#Footnote_2" class="fnanchor">[2]</a></p> -<p class="tbl3">*15 Snowbound—<em>Whittier</em><a href="#Footnote_2" class="fnanchor">[2]</a></p> -<p class="tbl3">*20 The Great Stone Face—<em>Hawthorne</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">123 Selections from Wordsworth (Ode on Immortality, We are Seven, To the Cuckoo, and other poems)</p> -<p class="tbl3">124 Selections from Shelley and Keats</p> -<p class="tbl3">125 Selections from The Merchant of Venice</p> -<p class="tbl4">*147 Story of King Arthur, as told by Tennyson</p> -<p class="tbl4">*149 The Man Without a Country—<em>Hale</em><a href="#Footnote_2" class="fnanchor">[2]</a></p> -<p class="tbl4">*192 Story of Jean Valjean—<em>Grames</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*193 Selections from the Sketch Book—<em>Irving</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">196 The Gray Champion—<em>Hawthorne</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">213 Poems of Thomas Moore—(Selected)</p> -<p class="tbl3">214 More Selections from the Sketch Book</p> -<p class="tbl4">*216 Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare—Selected</p> -<p class="tbl4">*231 The Oregon Trail (Condensed)—<em>Parkman</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*235 Poems Worth Knowing—Book III—Grammar—<em>Faxon</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*238 Lamb’s Adventures of Ulysses—Part I</p> -<p class="tbl4">*239 Lamb’s Adventures of Ulysses—Part II</p> -<p class="tbl4">*241 Story of the Iliad—<em>Church</em> (Cond.)</p> -<p class="tbl4">*242 Story of the Æneid—<em>Church</em> (Cond.)</p> -<p class="tbl4">*251 Story of Language and Literature—<em>Heilig</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*252 The Battle of Waterloo—<em>Hugo</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*254 Story of “The Talisman” (Scott)—<em>Weekes</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*259 The Last of the Mohicans (Abridged)</p> -<p class="tbl4">*260 Oliver Twist (abridged)—<em>Dickens</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*261 Selected Tales of a Wayside Inn—<em>Longfellow</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*296 Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Condensed)</p> -<p class="tbl4">*297 Story of David Copperfield (Condensed)</p> -<p class="tbl4">*307 The Chariot Race—<em>Wallace</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*311 Story of Jerusalem—<em>Heilig</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*315 The Story of Armenia—<em>Heilig</em></p> - -<p class="subtitl">Nature</p> - -<p class="tbl4">*278 Mars and Its Mysteries—<em>Wilson</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*279 True Story of the Man in the Moon—<em>Wilson</em></p> - -<p class="subgrade" style="margin-bottom:0.5em">EIGHTH GRADE</p> - -<p class="tbl3">*17 Enoch Arden—<em>Tennyson</em><a href="#Footnote_1" class="fnanchor">[2]</a></p> -<p class="tbl3">*18 Vision of Sir Launfal—<em>Lowell</em><a href="#Footnote_1" class="fnanchor">[2]</a></p> -<p class="tbl3">*19 Cotter’s Saturday Night—<em>Burns</em><a href="#Footnote_1" class="fnanchor">[2]</a></p> -<p class="tbl3">*23 The Deserted Village—<em>Goldsmith</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*126 Rime of the Ancient Mariner—<em>Coleridge</em><a href="#Footnote_1" class="fnanchor">[2]</a></p> -<p class="tbl4">*127 Gray’s Elegy and Other Poems</p> -<p class="tbl4">*128 Speeches of Lincoln</p> -<p class="tbl4">*129 Julius Cæsar—Selections—<em>Shakespeare</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">130 Henry the VIII—Selections—<em>Shakespeare</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">131 Macbeth—Selections—<em>Shakespeare</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*142 Scott’s Lady of the Lake—Canto I<a href="#Footnote_1" class="fnanchor">[2]</a></p> -<p class="tbl4">*154 Scott’s Lady of the Lake—Canto II<a href="#Footnote_1" class="fnanchor">[2]</a></p> -<p class="tbl3">143 Building of the Ship and Other Poems—<em>Longfellow</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">148 Horatius, Ivry, The Armada—<em>Macaulay</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*150 Bunker Hill Address—Selections from Adams and Jefferson Oration—<em>Webster</em><a href="#Footnote_1" class="fnanchor">[2]</a></p> -<p class="tbl4">*151 Gold Bug, The—<em>Poe</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">153 Prisoner of Chillon and Other Poems—<em>Byron</em><a href="#Footnote_1" class="fnanchor">[2]</a></p> -<p class="tbl3">155 Rhoecus and Other Poems—<em>Lowell</em><a href="#Footnote_1" class="fnanchor">[2]</a></p> -<p class="tbl3">156 Edgar Allan Poe—Biography and Selected Poems—<em>Link</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*158 Washington’s Farewell Address</p> -<p class="tbl3">169 Abram Joseph Ryan—Biography and Selected Poems—<em>Smith</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">170 Paul H. Hayne—Biography and Selected Poems—<em>Link</em></p> -<p class="tbl3">215 Life of Samuel Johnson—<em>Macaulay</em><a href="#Footnote_1" class="fnanchor">[2]</a></p> -<p class="tbl4">*221 Sir Roger de Coverley Papers—<em>Addison</em><a href="#Footnote_1" class="fnanchor">[2]</a></p> -<p class="tbl4">*236 Poems Worth Knowing—Book IV Adv.</p> -<p class="tbl3">237 Lay of the Last Minstrel—Canto I—<em>Scott</em><a href="#Footnote_1" class="fnanchor">[2]</a></p> -<p class="tbl3">276 Landing of the Pilgrims (Orations)—<em>Webster</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*305 Wee Willie Winkie—<em>Kipling</em></p> -<p class="tbl4">*306 Howe’s Masquerade—<em>Hawthorne</em></p> -</div> - -<div class="footnotes" style="margin-top:0.5em"><h3>FOOTNOTE:</h3> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_2" href="#FNanchor_2" class="label">[2]</a> <em>These have biographical sketch of author, with -introduction or explanatory notes.</em></p> - -</div></div> - -<p class="center"><b>Price 7 Cents Each. 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