on the warm sand, feeling all tingling and laugh because it felt so good. He
for such a long time a tear started running down his cheek. Charlie caught
the tear on his finger, the sunlight touched it. It glistened and sparkled, and
for just a moment he saw a rainbow in the shining drop. It was so beautiful
he wanted to keep it to show to his mother, but it slid from his finger into the
All the running and laughing had made Charlie hungry, he started
home. His mother was frying bread on a fire outside their Hogan when he
arrived. His father was helping his sisters gather their sheep together so they
could be taken to a place where there was grass for the sheep to eat. The
earth around their village was very dry, grass could not grow there. His
sisters traveled far with the sheep, they would be gone all day. Charlie
looked at his sisters in their long colorful shining skirts and soft velvet
blouses with silver buttons. They were so bright in the sunlight it reminded
him to tell his mother about the rainbow he had caught and how he had lost
it in the sand. His mother smiled as she pointed all around them and said
“See all the color on our land, - - in the rockson the cliffs, - - the blue of
the sky- the green of the Juniper tree, and all the golden light of the early
morning. Their color comes from the many rainbows caught in tear drops
