| Show TELLS WHY INDIANS PAINT apache relates legend which accounts for his peoples people a custom once an old apache indian when asked the question why his people painted their faces told this little ie le gend long ago when men were weak ind animals were vere big and strong a chief of the red men who lived in these mountains went out to get a leer for his people were hungry after walking all day he saw a leer and shot at it but the arrow was turned aside and wounded a mountain lion which was also after the deer when the lion felt the sting of t the arrow he jumped up and bound ed ed after the man who ran for his life he as almost exhausted and when he felt his strength giving way he tie tell fell to the ground calling on the big bear who you know Is the grand father of men to save him the big bear heard the call and saw that to save the man he had to act quickly so he scratched his foot and sprinkled his blood over the man now you must know that no ant an mal will eat of the bear or tas taste te of MR blood so when the lion reached the man he smelled the blood and turned away but as he did so his toot foot scraped the face of the man leaving the marks of hie his claws on the blood smeared face when the man found that he was uninjured he was so thankful that he left the blood dry on his face and never washed it at all but left it until it peeled off where the claws of the lion scraped it off there were marks that turned brown in the u iun and where the blood stayed on it was lighter now all men paint their faces that way with blood and scrape it off in streaks when they hint h ant or go to war |
