While Demino lighted the fire, his wife brought some corn and ground it in the stone .  
Another woman cooked more piki on the hot stones, while one of the men went to the for a jar of water.
 
Then the hunters skinned the animals and roasted them.
 
The women were not hungry, so while the men ate they busied themselves weaving baskets and mats of grass.
 
Demino’s wife stretched the deerskin on the rocks in the sun.
 
“Let me help you,” said Teni, as he ran the woman.
 
She let him help her stretch the skin and then thanked him.
 
“What are you going to use this skin for?” said the boy.
 
“It will make a warm winter coat for my little boy,” she said.
 
“My mother makes my coats from skins, too,” said Teni.
 
As the men ate, they talked.
 
They wished for rain, that they might plant their corn and beans.
 
The wind might blow the seed away if the rain did not come to wet the dry sand.
 
“The rain is late this year,” sa............