Sing Down the Moon

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Sing Down the Moon

• ByScott ODell
• Johanna Jones

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Chapter one

• That year spring came early. The pine trees shook
  of the snow daring the months.

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Chapter two

• It was a big wonder that they had enough strength
  left to climb into their saddles when daylight
  came.

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Chapter three

• They gathered that night sang and they were so
  tiered out that they thought that they could not
  in their saddles.

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Chapter four

• I opened the gate and drove sheep across the
  river and up the trail.As the sheep bells tinkled
  in the slight canyon I sang little sang to myself.

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Chapter Five

• The Spaniards made a small fire and warmed
  corncakes. They offered running bird and of some
  of the food, but we said that we are not hungry.
  

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Chapter seven

• Bells sounded far of and an Indian girl came
  running to let us in. What tribe she belonged to
  I could not tell, but she was smiling and looked
  happier than the Nez Perce girl.

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Chapter eight

• When the next full moon was light enough to see
  by, running bird and I would steal away and take
  the road to home.

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Chapter nine

• On the night after the bailer Rosetta and I went
  to the church. I tried to go alone, for this was
  the night Nahant had told me to come but the
  Senora went with us.

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Chapter ten

• One of them must be camped there now. It is not
  good if he sees us. But we cannot go back. Nor
  can we get through the forest with out using the
  trail.

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Chapter eleven

• Night was falling as we again reached the stream
  and grove cotton woods. We had seen no sign of
  the Spaniard during the afternoon, but they were
  not vary far behind us endways.