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Updated: May 15, 2025
"Because I ask it. I ask, and you shall answer me without inquiring why and wherefore. Do you hear, uak?" Shyuote hung his head; he felt afraid. "I forbid you to say anything about what I say to you to your mother," continued the other, grasping the left arm of the boy. Shyuote shook off the grip, and also shook his head in token of refusal.
"You belong to the Corn clan," she said, "and have nothing to do here on the houses of the Eagle clan. Go down! Get away at once or I will call our men. As long as I am here you shall not touch the uak." "So you take his part?" cried the biggest one of the invaders. He raised a stick to strike her. "Lay down your club, you dirty ear of corn," replied the maiden, "or you will fare badly."
He screams and struggles to free himself. Again the voice of the maiden is heard; this time it is louder and the tone commanding. "Shyuote!" "She is calling you, uak," the man says who has saved the brat. "I won't go," retorts our old friend Shyuote, for he it is who attempts to play at Koshare here. "Shyuote, come to sanaya!" again calls the maiden.
Angry at the merriment which this created, the boy hastily grabbed the food, but his mother interfered. "Don't be so greedy, uak, 'urchin. Remember Those Above," she said; and Shyuote, imitating the example of Okoya, crossly muttered a prayer, and scattered crumbs before him. Then only, both fell to eating.
To this word they tack on the sound which each beast makes in order to indicate what animal is referred to; thus the pig is the grunting chĕweh, the buffalo the chĕweh that says 'uak, and the snipe the chĕweh that cries 'kek-kek. Each boat that puts to sea has been medicined with care, many incantations and other magic observances having been had recourse to, in obedience to the rules which the superstitious people have followed for ages.
That much you might have shouted to me. There was no need of being so secret about it, and" he glanced at the insignificant and careless work the boy had performed "is that all you have done since you came? You are lazy, uak! Go home. Go home at once to your mother and tell her that I shall not return for the evening, but will stay with Hayoue in the caves."
Once in the corn he felt safe, and was about to cross the brook to the south side, when the willows bordering the streamlet rustled and tossed, and a voice called to him from the thicket, "Where are you going, uak?" Shyuote stopped, and looked around for the speaker; but nobody was visible.
"See, uak," she proceeded, "on this bowl you see everything painted that produces rain." One after the other she pointed out the various figures.
His black eyes stared out of the dirty coating that covered his face, like living coals. The appearance of his mother put an end to his hostile actions, he felt uncertain about the manner in which they would be viewed by his parent. Say quickly changed his forebodings into absolute certainty. "Are you not ashamed of yourself, you big, ugly uak," she scolded, "to beat your poor little sister?"
"When you call me a turkey-buzzard you say the truth," he answered, "else I would not have come to you." Shotaye understood the venomous allusion and was going to retort, but bethought herself in time and only said in a contemptuous tone, "Why should I quarrel with you, uak." Then turning to Zashue and changing the subject, "How many feathers do you want, and what will you give me for them?"
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