THE FROG AND THE COYOTE
HEN Doña Juanita was a tiny girl like you, Mabel, and Don Antonio was a little boy like you, Joe, they lived on a large ranch across the bay from San Francisco. They had no school to attend, and they saw other white children only at Christmas, or Easter, or Saint Francis' Day, or some other such great feast time. They had their lessons, of course,—book lessons, which were not long enough to weary them; riding lessons, which carried them over the hills many
hours a day; and music lessons, which consisted in practicing guitar and violin accompaniments to the sweet old Spanish songs. In addition, Juanita was taught all kinds of needlework, from plain hemming to the finest embroidery. As for amusements, they played dancing games with each other and with the children of the Indian servants, and they listened
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