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Songs of the Tewa, by Herbert Joseph Spinden, [1933], at sacred-texts.com


XII
RAGS ARE ROYAL RAIMENT . . . . .

"That dirty one, that ragged one."
Thus do they deride us two.

But you, you have good fortune;
Yellow clothes, pink clothes, blue clothes.
These are the only kinds you wear!

But you not mind to be a mule!


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