The Pueblo Indians are industrious. The men have to attend to their
fields, their orchards of peaches and apricots, and their flocks and
herds. The women tend the gardens, make pottery and baskets, and prepare
the food. Men are also weavers of blankets and belts. The produce of the
fields is chiefly corn, but some wheat is also raised. Considerable crops
are made of watermelons, muskmelons, squashes, and gourds. The most
important domestic animals are ponies, the little donkeys called _burros_,
and goats. Near the pueblos are always several enclosures built of poles
set in the ground, called _corrals_. These are for the animals, and one
kind only is usually kept in one corral. The Indian boys have great fun at
evening when the burros are brought home from pasture and put into the
corral. They go in among them and play until dark with the patient little
beasts. They climb up on to them and ride, push, pull, and tease them.
Early the next morning the whole herd is taken out to pasture by two or
three boys, whose work it is to stay with them all day.
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