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Show 80 The Southern Utes slammed the door shut, latched it, and away he ran toward the farmhouse yelling, "Hey Mu ti cauch (White man), come quickly; there is a fox in the chicken house and he is killing all your chickens." The farmer came running out of the house with a gun in his hand and ran as fast as he could to the chicken house. Bang! Bang! Meanwhile the rabbit retreated to the hillside to watch the fireworks. Bang! Bang! The rabbit smiled and went on his merry way and thought how lucky he had been. The Fox and the Sage Hen One day the fox decided to put on all his beautiful buckskin clothes and take a stroll along the river bank. He put on his moccasins, leggings, vest, and war bonnet. He looked very handsome and felt he owned the world. Soon he met up with the baby sage hens. He said "Get out of my way," and started kicking the sage hens around and they scattered in all directions. They hid under bushes and behind rocks and tried to stay out of sight because they thought he might come back and start kicking them around again. Soon the mother sage hen came to find her babies and found that they were hiding. She asked, "What's wrong with you? Why are you hiding?" The baby sage hens told her they were afraid of the fox, because he was all dressed up and when he saw them he started kicking them. The mother said she would get even with the fox for what he had done to her babies. She said, "Which way did he go?" They replied, "He was walking along the river bank." The mother ran on ahead until she passed the fox and decided that she would wait for him where there was a deep hole in the river. When she heard the fox coming, she jumped behind a boulder and decided to hide there. When the fox got to the deep area in the river, the mother hen jumped out and yelled so loud that she scared the fox and he fell into the deep area of the river. His beautiful clothes were completely soaked and he thought he must dry them immediately. He took them off and hung them on the branches of the pinon tree. While his clothes were drying he decided to take a nap. When he woke, he found his clothes had shrunk and he couldn't put them on. He was very upset and threw them away. He made himself a skirt out of grass and went home disgusted. The mother sage hen and her babies had a good laugh when they learned his clothes didn't fit. |