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| In Chapter XX, the three
stories are about horses. In the first story it talks about a man
who owned a fine hunting horse. When the horse was turned upon an
enemy it charged at full speed and was afraid of nothing. The man
didnt even need to have his hands on the reins but he knew fear.
Once during a charge he turned his horse away from its course and the
hunting horse died of shame. In the second story it tells about a disease breaking out into the Tai-me tribe. The disease was smallpox. An old man Gaapiatan sacrificed one of his best horses to save his family. In the third story it just looks back on Gaapiatan and what he was going on in his mind: If you will give me my life and the lives of my family, I will give you the life of this black-eared horse. All three of the stories are about horses dying for a person of a persons family. Horses were very important in Indian tribes and served as strong hunters. |