CHAPTER II
LOST

In the early morning, when Father Sun began to put his star babies to bed, the little cliff-dwellers awoke.

They looked about for their father and mother, for they thought they had been sleeping on their own little skin bed.

“Why, Teni,” said Mavo, “we are out of doors; see the red cliff, and the cedar-tree over there.”

They called and called, but no one answered.

Even the owl had gone.

Teni took Mavo by the hand, and said, “Let us go home.”