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wg 194 ” LAUGHING Boy IT They were storm-bound for all the next czz § He was anxious to be home again, now that == § restraint of the ceremony and after-ceremony w= ended. He wanted to have Slim Girl to hims== § at leisure, and to enjoy their own special kind = I life once more. So he was impatient and rez=- to find fault. It was a long time since he had been confir=: | in a winter hogahn, with its crowded things a=: I people and close-packed smells. Their house z= § Los Palos was always aired. At T'o Tlakai it szZ ¢ had been warm enough to leave the door u:- | blanketed during the day, and he had spent mcs: 3 of his time in the brush-walled medicine-lodgz He found it too close here, and was made se’- I conscious by fearing what she might think == | it. : The modern Navajo diet, boiled mutton az: § tough bread, tough bread and boiled mutton. = § little corn and squash, coffee with not enous: i sugar, tea as black as coffee, had none of the de:- } cacy of the old ceremonial dishes. He went ouz- | side only on rising, when they all rolled in t= | snow (it had never occurred to him to warn Sli § Girl of that custom, but she followed suit withoz | a sign), and again for half an hour to look at Lis | ponies. The thick air inside weighed upon hic