🌲 The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 47

The Hungry Grandfathers had been almost forgotten, except as a word to change the minds of children who had about quarter of a mind to be naughty; but interest was revived by a discovery of which my venerable friend Desiderio Peralta was the hero.

Who acts: children, discovery, venerable friend · What happens: forget, change, have, be, revive, mind · To what, where: Hungry Grandfathers, minds, quarter, interest, hero, children

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