Otherwise I should have been harmed by them long ago.

But I don't care for them." [Illustration: Indian Pueblo Dances of To-day (Upper picture) Lining up for the dance (Lower picture) The "Clowns"] Okoya shook his head and muttered,-- "I am afraid of the Koshare." The other shrugged his shoulders.
"I am not," he said.

"Men can do harm with their hands and with their weapons; and against those you have your fist and the shield.

Those Above"-- he pointed at the skies--"can harm us; they can kill us.

But men--why, we can defend ourselves." Okoya felt shocked at words which sounded to him like sacrilegious talk.
Timidly and morosely he objected,-- "Don't you know that there are witches!" "Witches! There are no witches." Again there was a mutter from the west, a hollow, solemn warning; and the cliffs responded with a plaintive moan.