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Source: Frank Russell, Myths of the
Jicarilla Apaches, 1898
Two old women were once cooking a pot of mush which two mischievous boys
were trying to steal.
Both were blind, so one sat on each side of the
fire.
They kept their sticks waving back and forth above the pot,
to prevent any one from taking advantage of their blindness and taking
the vessel or its contents.
The boys found an empty pot, which they substituted for the
one on the fire. Finding that the pot now had an empty ring when struck
by their sticks, the old women concluded that the water had boiled away,
and the mush must be sufficiently cooked.
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"Let us smoke while it cools," said one.
"Very well," said the other, and they began to smoke
alternately the single pipe in their possession. As they smoked they
kept the sticks waving to and fro above the empty vessel.
The boys took the pipe from the hand of one old woman as
she was passing it to the other.
"You are smoking all the time," said the second woman.
"I gave you the pipe long ago," said the first.
"You did not," said the second. Just then the boys struck
the first woman in the mouth, and she, thinking it was the other woman,
struck her companion, who, of course, retaliated, and they proceeded to
belabor one another with their staves.
When they were tired of fighting they went to eat their
mush; each thought the other had eaten it, which set them to fighting
again.
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