Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 1043
Zuhis have a language of their own —no very easy one for boys and girls to learn,judging from its many-syllabled, harsh-sound- hundred yards from the houses. At the top ofa flight of stone steps they wait, playing aboutin the sand, while their mothers go down to thespring. There the women fill the… … ON THE WAY TO FORT WINGATE. ing words. They also speak a little Spanish, asdoes nearly everybody in New Mexico. The little Zuhis amuse themselves with run-ning, wrestling, jumping, and playing at grownfolks, just as civilized children do. They havetheir bows and arrows,their rag-dolls,—strappedlike…
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