The marvellous country, or, Three years in Arizona and New Mexico.: Containing an authentic history of this wonderful country and its ancient civilization ... together with a full and complete history of the Apache tribe of Indians .../ By Samuel Woodworth Cozzens. Illustrated by more than one hundred engravings.

THE GOOD GIFTS.
mers, as it has children of all ages and conditions, who
have loved to watch the heavens on a starry night.
The springs of water found upon the surface were
made when the earth was small; and the Sacred Spring at
Zuni, being the first one made, is the great mother spring
of all, and hence the Great Spirit has taken it under his
especial care and protection, demanding that people of aU
nations shall hold it sacred.
As the earth grows, the springs become stretched farther
and farther apart each year, and this is the reason they are
so scarce on the earth's surface.
After the sun, moon, stars, and the heavens had been
created, and were each filling their appropriate sphere, tne
old men called a council for the purpose of seeing how
they could benefit their children, who were so dependent
upon them for all the good gifts they might enjoy.
AfLter deliberatilng a long while, they finally, with their
own hands, constructed three tenajas, or water-jars, one of
which they ornamented with figures of most elegant design
and brilliant coloring; this they filled with worthless
trash, bits of wool, and articles of no possible value.
The other two were of precisely the same size and shap,,
but made of very coarse common ware, and entirely unornamented: one of these they filled with flocks and herds and
Implements of agriculture; the other with tools and all
kinds of useful articles. After covering the three tenajaq,
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