The Basket Woman: A Book of Indian Tales for Children

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Mary Hunter Austin. The Basket Woman: A Book of Indian Tales for Children

PREFACE

THE BASKET WOMAN. FIRST STORY

THE BASKET WOMAN. SECOND STORY

THE STREAM THAT RAN AWAY

THE COYOTE-SPIRIT AND THE. WEAVING WOMAN

THE CHEERFUL GLACIER

THE MERRY-GO-ROUND

THE CHRISTMAS TREE

THE FIRE BRINGER

THE CROOKED FIR

THE SUGAR PINE

THE GOLDEN FORTUNE

THE WHITE-BARKED PINE

NA'ŸANG-WIT'E, THE FIRST RABBIT. DRIVE

MAHALA JOE

PRONOUNCING VOCABULARY Of INDIAN NAMES AND WORDS

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The homesteader's cabin stood in a moon-shaped hollow between the hills and the high mesa; and the land before it stretched away golden and dusky green, and was lost in a blue haze about where the river settlements began. The hills had a flowing outline and melted softly into each other and higher hills behind, until the range broke in a ragged crest of thin peaks white with snow. A clean, wide sky bent over that country, and the air that moved in it was warm and sweet.

The homesteader's son had run out on the trail that led toward the spring, with half a mind to go to it, but ran back again when he saw the Basket Woman coming. He was afraid of her, and ashamed because he was afraid, so he did not tell his mother that he had changed his mind.

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"It is the women singing and grinding at the quern," she said, and her feet went faster.

"I hear laughter," he said again, "it mixes with the running of the water."

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