Did I test your patience, my father?"
Many Horses seemed to ponder that question a moment. "I found myself short on patience the time you shot me in the thigh with your first bow and arrow. It wouldn't have been so bad if I hadn't been standing you."
Hunter laughed softly. "You weren't when I let fly with the arrow. If I remember, I turned around to ask you a question."
"Which I never did answer. I always thanked the Great Ones that you were only knee high. If you'd been much taller, your brothers and sister never would have been born.
Many Horses seemed to ponder that question a moment. "I found myself short on patience the time you shot me in the thigh with your first bow and arrow. It wouldn't have been so bad if I hadn't been standing you."
Hunter laughed softly. "You weren't when I let fly with the arrow. If I remember, I turned around to ask you a question."
"Which I never did answer. I always thanked the Great Ones that you were only knee high. If you'd been much taller, your brothers and sister never would have been born.
( Catherine Anderson )
[ Comanche Moon ]
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