--- title: The Revenge of the Fawns — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · full text with trees · page 2 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/page/2/) [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 · page 2 [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/27/) **2** Again she asked him the same question, more snappishly, but he only howled and groaned.[75](../../75/ "tree and pragmatics") Then she was very angry, and showed her big teeth as she said:[76](../../76/ "tree and pragmatics") “I don’t care about your ‘\_Mm-m-páh\![77](../../77/ "tree and pragmatics") Mm-m-páh\![78](../../78/ "tree and pragmatics") \_’ Tell me if you saw those Fawns, or I’ll eat you this very now!”[79](../../79/ "tree and pragmatics") “Fawns?[80](../../80/ "tree and pragmatics") \_Fawns?[81](../../81/ "tree and pragmatics") \_” groaned the Coyote--“I have been wandering with the toothache ever since the world began.[82](../../82/ "tree and pragmatics") And do you think I have had nothing to do but to watch for Fawns?[83](../../83/ "tree and pragmatics") Go along, and don’t bother me.”[84](../../84/ "tree and pragmatics") So the Wolf, who was growing angrier all the time, went hunting around till she found the trail, and set to running on it as fast as she could go.[85](../../85/ "tree and pragmatics") By this time the Fawns had come to where two Indian boys were playing \_k’wah-t’hím\_\[95\] with their bows and arrows, and said to them:[86](../../86/ "tree and pragmatics") \[95\] A sort of walking archery.[87](../../87/ "tree and pragmatics") “Friends boys, if an old Wolf comes along and asks if you have seen us, don’t tell her, will you?”[88](../../88/ "tree and pragmatics") The boys promised that they would not, and the Fawns hurried on.[89](../../89/ "tree and pragmatics") But the Wolf could run much faster, and soon she came to the boys, to whom she cried gruffly:[90](../../90/ "tree and pragmatics") “You boys! did you see two Fawns running this way?”[91](../../91/ "tree and pragmatics") But the boys paid no attention to her, and went on playing their game and disputing: “My arrows nearest!”[92](../../92/ "tree and pragmatics") “No; mine is!”[93](../../93/ "tree and pragmatics") “’T ain’t\![94](../../94/ "tree and pragmatics") Mine is!”[95](../../95/ "tree and pragmatics") She repeated her question again and again, but got no answer till she cried in a rage:[96](../../96/ "tree and pragmatics") “You little rascals\![97](../../97/ "tree and pragmatics") Answer me about those Fawns, or I’ll eat you!”[98](../../98/ "tree and pragmatics") At that the boys turned around and said:[99](../../99/ "tree and pragmatics") “We have been here all day, playing \_k’wah-t’hím\_, and not hunting Fawns.[100](../../100/ "tree and pragmatics") Go on, and do not disturb us.”[101](../../101/ "tree and pragmatics") So the Wolf lost much time with her questions and with finding the trail again; but then she began to run harder than ever.[102](../../102/ "tree and pragmatics") In the mean time the Fawns had come to the bank of the Rio Grande, and there was \_P’ah-chah-hlóo-hli\_, the Beaver, hard at work cutting down a tree with his big teeth.[103](../../103/ "tree and pragmatics") And they said to him very politely:[104](../../104/ "tree and pragmatics") “Friend Old-Crosser-of-the-Water, will you please pass us over the river?”[105](../../105/ "tree and pragmatics") The Beaver took them on his back and carried them safely across to the other bank.[106](../../106/ "tree and pragmatics") When they had thanked him, they asked him not to tell the old Wolf about them.[107](../../107/ "tree and pragmatics") He promised he would not, and swam back to his work.[108](../../108/ "tree and pragmatics") The Fawns ran and ran, across the plain, till they came to a big black hill of lava that stands alone in the valley southeast of Tomé.[109](../../109/ "tree and pragmatics") AND ARROWS.\][110](../../110/ "tree and pragmatics") “Here!” said one of the Fawns, “I am sure this must be the place our mother told us about, where the Trues of our people live.[111](../../111/ "tree and pragmatics") Let us look.”[112](../../112/ "tree and pragmatics") And when they came to the top of the hill, they found a trap-door in the solid rock.[113](../../113/ "tree and pragmatics") When they knocked, the door was opened and a voice called, “Enter!”[114](../../114/ "tree and pragmatics") They went down the ladder into a great room underground; and there they found all the Trues of the Deer-people, who welcomed them and gave them food.[115](../../115/ "tree and pragmatics") When they had told their story, the Trues said:[116](../../116/ "tree and pragmatics") “Fear not, friends, for we will take care of you.”[117](../../117/ "tree and pragmatics") And the War-captain picked out fifty strong young bucks for a guard.[118](../../118/ "tree and pragmatics") By this time the Wolf had come to the river, and there she found the Beaver hard at work and grunting as he cut the tree.[119](../../119/ "tree and pragmatics") “Old man!” she snarled, “did you see two Fawns here?”[120](../../120/ "tree and pragmatics") But the Beaver did not notice her, and kept on walking around the tree, cutting it and grunting, “\_Ah-oó-mah\![121](../../121/ "tree and pragmatics") Ah-oó-mah\![122](../../122/ "tree and pragmatics") She was in a terrible rage now, and roared:[123](../../123/ "tree and pragmatics") “I am not talking ‘\_Ah-oó-mah\![124](../../124/ "tree and pragmatics") \_’ to you.[125](../../125/ "tree and pragmatics") I’m asking if you saw two Fawns.”[126](../../126/ "tree and pragmatics") “Well,” said the Beaver, “I have been cutting trees here by the river ever since I was born, and I have no time to think about Fawns.”[127](../../127/ "tree and pragmatics") The Wolf, crazy with rage, ran up and down the bank, and at last came back and said:[128](../../128/ "tree and pragmatics") “Old man, if you will carry me over the river I will pay you; but if you don’t, I’ll eat you up.”[129](../../129/ "tree and pragmatics") “Well, wait then till I cut around the tree three times more,” said the Beaver; and he made her wait.[130](../../130/ "tree and pragmatics") Then he jumped down in the water and took her on his neck, and began to swim across.[131](../../131/ "tree and pragmatics") But as soon as he came where the water was deep, he dived to the bottom and stayed there as long as he could.[132](../../132/ "tree and pragmatics") “Ah-h-h!” sputtered the Wolf when he came to the surface.[133](../../133/ "tree and pragmatics") As soon as the Beaver got a breath, down he went again; and so he kept doing all the way across, until the Wolf was nearly drowned--but she clung to his neck desperately, and he could not shake her off.[134](../../134/ "tree and pragmatics") When they came to the shore the old Wolf was choking, coughing, and crying, and so mad that she would not pay the Beaver as she had promised--and from that day to this the Beaver will never again ferry a Wolf across the river.[135](../../135/ "tree and pragmatics") Presently she found the trail, and came running to the hill.[136](../../136/ "tree and pragmatics") When she knocked on the trap-door a voice from within called, “Who?”[137](../../137/ "tree and pragmatics") “Wolf-woman,” she answered as politely as she could, restraining her anger.[138](../../138/ "tree and pragmatics") “Come down,” said the voice, and hearing her name the fifty young Deer-warriors--who had carefully whetted their horns--stood ready.[139](../../139/ "tree and pragmatics") The door flew open, and she started down the ladder.[140](../../140/ "tree and pragmatics") But as soon as she set her foot on the first rung, all the Deer-people shouted:[141](../../141/ "tree and pragmatics") “Look what feet!”[142](../../142/ "tree and pragmatics") For, though the Deer is so much larger than the Wolf, it has smaller feet.[143](../../143/ "tree and pragmatics") At this she was very much ashamed, and pulled back her foot; but soon her anger was stronger, and she started down again.[144](../../144/ "tree and pragmatics") But each time the Deer-people laughed and shouted, and she drew back.[145](../../145/ "tree and pragmatics") THEM THE WOLF DROPPED THE SPOONFUL OF SOUP.”\][146](../../146/ "tree and pragmatics") At last they were quiet, and she came down the ladder.[147](../../147/ "tree and pragmatics") When she had told her story the old men of the Deer-people said:[148](../../148/ "tree and pragmatics") “This is a serious case, and we must not judge it lightly.[149](../../149/ "tree and pragmatics") Come, we will make an agreement.[150](../../150/ "tree and pragmatics") Let soup be brought, and we will eat together.[151](../../151/ "tree and pragmatics") And if you eat all your soup without spilling a drop, you shall have the Fawns.”[152](../../152/ "tree and pragmatics") “Ho!” thought the Wolf.[153](../../153/ "tree and pragmatics") “\_That\_ is easy enough, for I will be very careful.”[154](../../154/ "tree and pragmatics") And aloud she said: “It is well.[155](../../155/ "tree and pragmatics") Let us eat.”[156](../../156/ "tree and pragmatics") So a big bowl of soup was brought, and each took a \_guayave\_\[96\] and rolled it like a spoon to dip up the soup.[157](../../157/ "tree and pragmatics") The old Wolf was very careful, and had almost finished her soup without spilling a drop.[158](../../158/ "tree and pragmatics") But just as she was lifting the last sup to her mouth the Fawns appeared suddenly in the door of the next room, and at sight of them she dropped the soup in her lap.[159](../../159/ "tree and pragmatics") \[96\] An Indian bread made by spreading successive films of blue corn-meal batter on a flat hot stone.[160](../../160/ "tree and pragmatics") It looks more like a piece of wasp’s nest than anything else, but is very good to eat.[161](../../161/ "tree and pragmatics") “She spilled!” shouted all the Deer-people, and the fifty chosen warriors rushed upon her and tore her to pieces with their sharp horns.[162](../../162/ "tree and pragmatics") That was the end of the treacherous Wolf; and from that day the Wolf and the Deer have been enemies, and the Wolf is a little afraid of the Deer.[163](../../163/ "tree and pragmatics") And the two Fawns?[164](../../164/ "tree and pragmatics") Oh, they still live with the Deer-people in that black hill below Tomé.[165](../../165/ "tree and pragmatics") XXVI[166](../../166/ "tree and pragmatics") [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/27/) **2** - ← previous: [page 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/27/) - next →: [The Sobbing Pine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/28/) - ↑ back to [The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/)