animals. You shall be little and feeble. As you now cling to the deer's hair, so all the rest of your days you shall crawl around on the hair of animals. You shall suck blood, yes, but it will be in such tiny drops that you will never again grow fat. And at any time my animals may kill you with a stone."
So since that day Tick has been a little flat crawling creature that lives by sucking blood. The animals are no longer obedient to him, for at any time they can crush him to death by sudden violence.
"Oh, Tonio, I' m so glad Coyote conquered him. Just think, if the big tick had taken hold of you!" and Juanita gave her brother's arm a squeeze.
"But it did n't," said Antonio, pulling his arm loose. "Klayukat, the herders say that rabbits have ticks all over them. Is that so?"
"Who can tell? Who can tell? Ticks will go anywhere they can. As for rabbits, well, rabbits have not the best sense. Did I ever tell you the story of the jack rabbit's fight with the sun?"
"No, we 've never heard it. Will you tell it to us now?"
"Not now. I must take this awl to the smithy. You come around some other time, when you have nothing to do."
