🌲 The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 19

Of its serious disrepute I can convey no better idea to the enlightened and superstitionless American mind than by saying that it is a sort of aboriginal “haunted house.”

Who acts: I, _ · What happens: convey, enlighten, say, be, haunt · To what, where: better idea, enlightened American mind, sort · Speech: someone speaks here

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