The Rabbit Huntress and her Adventures

It was long ago, in the days of the ancients, that a poor maiden lived at Kʻyawana Tehua-tsana ("Little Gateway of Zuni River"). You know there are black stone walls of houses standing there on the tops of the cliffs of lava, above the narrow place through which the river runs, to this day.

In one of these houses there lived this poor maiden alone with her feeble old father and her aged mother. She was unmarried, and her brothers had all been killed in wars, or had died gently; so the family lived there helplessly, so far as many things were concerned, from the lack of men in their house.