Four Navaho Summer Tales. Part II

The following that you will hear is a story about a little lamb and a cat and their travels. This goes to show how the Navahos go from place to place. This legend that I am going to tell is about the time when the Navahos had quite a number of sheep and they went anywhere they wanted to. There were no restrictions as to where to graze your sheep. So they traveled where there is plenty of grass and where there is plenty of water. That was the only aim of the Navaho people. And, to begin with, at night they were camped about. There was a corral. The sheep were all tired, so they were penned up in their corral. And in the morning, the family were cooking their dinner. While everybody else was busy nobody had noticed that the cat had gone out into the woods to hunt for either some mice or some birds to eat. So the cat was out

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