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Show TILLS WHY INDIANS PAINT. Apache Rtlatee Legend Which A ceunta for Hla People'a Custom. Onoa an old Apache Indian, when naked the question why hla people painted their facea, told thla little Intend In-tend ! "tons ago, when men were weak and tnlniala were big and strong, a Bhlef of the red men who lived In ittiaea mountalna went out to Ret a leer, for hla people were hungry. "After walking all nay ha aaw a tear and ahot at It. but tba arrow i was turned aside and wounded a mountain lion, which waa alao after the deer. When the II. 'ii fi'lt the sting af the arrow ha Jumped up and bound ad after the man, who ran for hla life. "H waa almoat exhausted and. ( , wkea ba felt hla atrength giving way, fee fell to the ground, calling on the all bear, who. you know, la Ihe grand father of men, lo eave him. , "The big bear heard the call and i aaw that to eave Ihe man he had to ' j , act quickly, ao ha ecralrhed hla toot ,4 and eurlnkled bis blood over the man. ; "Now. you muet knuw thai ao ant- ' "" " ' ' anal will eat of the bear or taate ot !bls blood. 80 when the lion reached tba man ha amelled the blood and aurnod nway, but aa ha did ao hla foot aoraped the face ot the man, leasing ( the mark! of hla clawa on the blood aiaeared fare. 1 "When lha man found that ha waa alnjured be waa ao thankful that ha ; left lha blood dry on hla far and ( .ever washed It at all. but left It until It pealed off. I . "Where the clawa of the Hon aoraped It off there were marka that j' turned brown In the aim. and where tba blood atayed on It waa lighter. .New all man paint their facea that , i way arkh blood and acrapo It off in I .atxaaka when Ihey hunt or go to war." |