L'Amour, Louis - SSC 30

by The Collected Short Stories Vol 1

  The boy killed a deer, and they ate of it. He wiped his fingers on his buckskin leggings and said, “Those who sat upon the beasts? What did they find, following their star?”

  “A cave that smelled of animals where a baby lay on dry grass. The baby’s father and mother were there, and some other men wearing skins, who stood by with bowed heads.”

  “And the shining ones who sat upon beasts?”

  “They knelt before the baby and offered it gifts.”

  “It is a strange story,” the boy said, “and at another time I will listen to it again. Now we must think of planting.”