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"But the night is the time for true talking," insisted Po-po-ke-a. "It was then we heard that when Cabeza de Vaca returned to Spain he made one report of his wanderings to the public, and a secret report to the King. Also that the Captain-General asked to be sent on that expedition because he had married a young wife who needed much gold."
They thought of it when they looked at the long tails of the new-fashioned elk," said Po-po-ke-a, who had not liked being set right about the horses. "In any case," went on the Road-Runner, "there was trouble.
They were a good company of men and captains, and many of those long-tailed elk, which are called horses, sister," said the Road-Runner aside to Po-po-ke-a, "and the Indians were not pleased to see them." "That was because there had been a long-tailed star seen over To-ya-lanne, the sacred mountain, some years before, one of the kind that is called Trouble-Bringer.
It tipped and tilted and waggled almost like a dog's, and answered every purpose of conversation. Now he ducked forward on both legs in an absurd way he had. "To you, my sister " which is the polite method of story asking in that part of the country. "My word bag is as empty as my stomach," said Po-po-ke-a, who had eaten nothing since the night before and would not eat until night again.
"Often and often," she insisted with a whispering whoo-oo running through all the sentences, "I've heard the soldiers say that it was Cabeza de Vaca put it into the head of the King of Spain to send Francisco Coronado to look for the Seven Cities. In my position one hears the best of everything," went on Po-po-ke-a. "That is because all the important things happen next to the ground.
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