Post by Okwes on Jul 24, 2007 9:49:34 GMT -5
Duck Hunter - Yaqui
ONE DAY out by a lake I was duck hunting. I had a gun but I wanted to save
bullets so I thought of another way to catch them. I had some string which I
fastened around my waist. Then I swam under water to where the ducks were
swimming above the water. I tied the ducks' legs together under water until
I almost choked. By the time I had tied a great number of ducks together I
burst out of the water so suddenly that all the ducks flew up, taking me
with them, tangled up in the string. In a moment I was so high in the air
that I could not see anything below. In order to come down, I had to shoot
all the ducks, one by one, and I came down to the ground safely with my
game, but disappointed because I had to use my bullets.
Yaqui Myths and Legends, by Ruth Warner Giddings; Illustrated by Laurie
Cook; University of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ (Univ. Ariz. Anthropological
Paper No. 2) [1959] [1959, Copyright not registered or renewed] and is now
in the public domain.
ONE DAY out by a lake I was duck hunting. I had a gun but I wanted to save
bullets so I thought of another way to catch them. I had some string which I
fastened around my waist. Then I swam under water to where the ducks were
swimming above the water. I tied the ducks' legs together under water until
I almost choked. By the time I had tied a great number of ducks together I
burst out of the water so suddenly that all the ducks flew up, taking me
with them, tangled up in the string. In a moment I was so high in the air
that I could not see anything below. In order to come down, I had to shoot
all the ducks, one by one, and I came down to the ground safely with my
game, but disappointed because I had to use my bullets.
Yaqui Myths and Legends, by Ruth Warner Giddings; Illustrated by Laurie
Cook; University of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ (Univ. Ariz. Anthropological
Paper No. 2) [1959] [1959, Copyright not registered or renewed] and is now
in the public domain.