--- title: The Revenge of the Fawns — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · full text with trees description: The Revenge of the Fawns, «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: “DON CARLOS,” said Vitorino, throwing another log upon the fire, which caught his tall shad --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/27/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The man who married the moon, and othe…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/) / The Revenge of the Fawns # The Revenge of the Fawns The Revenge of the Fawns of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis: the whole text, 166 sentences and 2647 words. The small number after every sentence leads to its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself. **1** [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/27/page/2/) “DON CARLOS,” said Vitorino, throwing another log upon the fire, which caught his tall shadow and twisted it and set it dancing against the rocky walls of the cañon in which we were camped for the night, “did you ever hear why the Wolf and the Deer are enemies?”[1](1/ "tree and pragmatics") And as he spoke he stretched out near me, looking up into my face to see if I were going to be interested.[2](2/ "tree and pragmatics") A few years ago it would have frightened me very seriously to find my self thus--alone in one of the remotest corners of New Mexico save for that swarthy face peering up into mine by the weird light of the camp-fire.[3](3/ "tree and pragmatics") A stern, quiet but manly face it seems to me now; but once I would have thought it a very savage one, with its frame of long, jet hair, its piercing eyes, and the broad streak of red paint across its cheeks.[4](4/ "tree and pragmatics") By this time, however, having lived long among the kindly Pueblos, I had shaken off that strange, ignorant prejudice against all that is unknown--which seems to be inborn in all of us--and wondered that I could ever have believed in that brutal maxim, worthy only of worse than savages, that “A good Indian is a dead Indian.”[5](5/ "tree and pragmatics") For Indians are men, after all, and astonishingly like the rest of us when one really comes to know them.[6](6/ "tree and pragmatics") I pricked up my ears--very glad at his hint of another of these folk-stories.[7](7/ "tree and pragmatics") “No,” I answered.[8](8/ "tree and pragmatics") “I have noticed that the Wolf and the Deer are not on good terms, but never knew the reason.”[9](9/ "tree and pragmatics") “\_Si, señor\_,” said he,--for Vitorino knows no English, and most of our talk was in Spanish, which is easier to me than the Tée-wahn language,--“that was very long ago, and now all is changed.[10](10/ "tree and pragmatics") But once the Wolf and the Deer were like brothers; and it is only because the Wolf did very wickedly that they are enemies.[11](11/ "tree and pragmatics") \_Con su licencia, señor.[12](12/ "tree and pragmatics") \_”\[92\][13](13/ "tree and pragmatics") \[92\] “With your permission, sir.”[14](14/ "tree and pragmatics") “\_Bueno; anda\![15](15/ "tree and pragmatics") \_”\[93\][16](16/ "tree and pragmatics") \[93\] “All right; go ahead!”[17](17/ "tree and pragmatics") So Vitorino leaned his shoulders against a convenient rock and began.[18](18/ "tree and pragmatics") Once upon a time, when the Wolf and the Deer were friends, there were two neighbors in the country beyond the Rio Puerco, not far from where the pueblo of Laguna (a Quères town) now is.[19](19/ "tree and pragmatics") One was a Deer-mother who had two fawns, and the other a Wolf-mother with two cubs.[20](20/ "tree and pragmatics") They had very good houses of adobe, just such as we live in now, and lived like real people in every way.[21](21/ "tree and pragmatics") The two were great friends, and neither thought of going to the mountain for firewood or to dig \_amole\_\[94\] without calling for the other to accompany her.[22](22/ "tree and pragmatics") \[94\] The root of the palmilla, generally used for soap throughout the Southwest.[23](23/ "tree and pragmatics") One day the Wolf came to the house of the Deer and said:[24](24/ "tree and pragmatics") “Friend Peé-hlee-oh \[Deer-woman\], let us go to-day for wood and \_amole\_, for I must wash to-morrow.”[25](25/ "tree and pragmatics") “It is well, friend Káhr-hlee-oh,” replied the Deer.[26](26/ "tree and pragmatics") “I have nothing to do, and there is food in the house for the children while I am gone.[27](27/ "tree and pragmatics") \_Toó-kwai\![28](28/ "tree and pragmatics") \_ \[Let us go\].”[29](29/ "tree and pragmatics") So they went together across the plain and into the hills till they came to their customary spot.[30](30/ "tree and pragmatics") They gathered wood and tied it in bundles to bring home on their backs, and dug \_amole\_, which they put in their shawls to carry.[31](31/ "tree and pragmatics") Then the Wolf sat down under a cedar-tree and said:[32](32/ "tree and pragmatics") “\_Ai\![33](33/ "tree and pragmatics") \_ But I am tired\![34](34/ "tree and pragmatics") Sit down, friend Deer-woman, and lay your head in my lap, that we may rest.”[35](35/ "tree and pragmatics") “No, I am not tired,” replied the Deer.[36](36/ "tree and pragmatics") “But just to rest a little,” urged the Wolf.[37](37/ "tree and pragmatics") The Deer good-naturedly lay down with her head in the lap of her friend.[38](38/ "tree and pragmatics") But soon the Wolf bent down and caught the trusting Deer by the throat, and killed her.[39](39/ "tree and pragmatics") That was the first time in the world that any one betrayed a friend, and from that deed comes all the treachery that is.[40](40/ "tree and pragmatics") The false Wolf took off the hide of the Deer, and cut off some of the meat and carried it home on her load of \_amole\_ and wood.[41](41/ "tree and pragmatics") She stopped at the house of the Deer, and gave the Fawns some of the accursed meat, saying:[42](42/ "tree and pragmatics") “Friends, Deer-babies, do not fear, but eat; your mother met relatives and went to their house, and she will not come to-night.”[43](43/ "tree and pragmatics") The Fawns were very hungry, and as soon as the Wolf had gone home they built a big fire in the fireplace and set the meat to cook.[44](44/ "tree and pragmatics") But at once it began to sputter and to hiss, and the Fawn who was tending it heard it cry, “Look out! look out! for this is your mother!”[45](45/ "tree and pragmatics") He was greatly frightened, and called his brother to listen, and again the same words came from the meat.[46](46/ "tree and pragmatics") “The wicked old Wolf has killed our \_nana\_\![47](47/ "tree and pragmatics") \[mama\],” they cried, and, pulling the meat from the fire, they laid it gently away and sobbed themselves to sleep.[48](48/ "tree and pragmatics") Next morning the Wolf went away to the mountain to bring the rest of the deer-meat; and when she was gone her Cubs came over to play with the Fawns, as they were used to doing.[49](49/ "tree and pragmatics") When they had played awhile, the Cubs said:[50](50/ "tree and pragmatics") “\_Pee-oo-weé-deh\_ \[little Deer\], why are you so prettily spotted, and why do you have your eyelids red, while we are so ugly?”[51](51/ "tree and pragmatics") “Oh,” said the Fawns, “that is because when we were little, like you, our mother put us in a room and smoked us, and made us spotted.”[52](52/ "tree and pragmatics") “Oh, Fawn-friends, can’t you spot us, too, so that we may be pretty?”[53](53/ "tree and pragmatics") So the Fawns, anxious to avenge the death of their mother, built a big fire of corn-cobs in the fireplace, and threw coyote-grass on it to make a great smoke.[54](54/ "tree and pragmatics") Then, shutting the Cubs into the room, they plastered up the door and windows with mud, and laid a flat rock on top of the chimney and sealed it around with mud; and climbing down from the roof, they took each other’s hands and ran away to the south as fast as ever they could.[55](55/ "tree and pragmatics") After they had gone a long way, they came to a Coyote.[56](56/ "tree and pragmatics") He was walking back and forth with one paw to his face, howling dreadfully with the toothache.[57](57/ "tree and pragmatics") The Fawns said to him very politely:[58](58/ "tree and pragmatics") “\_Ah-bóo\![59](59/ "tree and pragmatics") \_ \[poor thing\].[60](60/ "tree and pragmatics") Old-man friend, we are sorry your tooth hurts.[61](61/ "tree and pragmatics") But an old Wolf is chasing us, and we cannot stay.[62](62/ "tree and pragmatics") If she comes this way, asking about us, do not tell her, will you?”[63](63/ "tree and pragmatics") “\_Een-dah.[64](64/ "tree and pragmatics") \_ Little-Deer-friends, I will not tell her”--and he began to howl again with pain, while the Fawns ran on.[65](65/ "tree and pragmatics") When the Wolf came to her home with the rest of the meat, the Cubs were not there; and she went over to the house of the Deer.[66](66/ "tree and pragmatics") It was all sealed and still; and when she pushed in the door, there were her Cubs dead in the smoke\![67](67/ "tree and pragmatics") When she saw that, the old Wolf was wild with rage, and vowed to follow the Fawns and eat them without mercy.[68](68/ "tree and pragmatics") She soon found their tracks leading away to the south, and began to run very swiftly in pursuit.[69](69/ "tree and pragmatics") In a little while she came to the Coyote, who was still walking up and down, howling so that one could hear him a mile away.[70](70/ "tree and pragmatics") But not pitying his pain, she snarled at him roughly:[71](71/ "tree and pragmatics") “Say, old man! have you seen two Fawns running away?”[72](72/ "tree and pragmatics") The Coyote paid no attention to her, but kept walking with his hand to his mouth, groaning, “\_Mm-m-páh\![73](73/ "tree and pragmatics") Mm-m-páh\![74](74/ "tree and pragmatics") **1** [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/27/page/2/) - ← previous: [The Brave Bobtails](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/26/) - next →: [page 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/27/page/2/) - ↑ back to [The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/)