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Once there was a lot of sound in my grandmother's house, a lot of coming and going, feasting and talk. The summers there were full of excitement and reunion. The Kiowas are a summer people; they (__) the cold and keep to themselves; but when the season turns and the land becomes warm and vital, they cannot hold (__); an old love of going returns upon them. The aged visitors who came to my grandmother's house when I was a child were made of (__) and leather, and they bore themselves (__). They wore great black hats and bright ample shirts that shook in the wind. They rubbed fat upon their hair and wound their braids with strips of colored cloth. Some of them painted their faces and carried the (__) of old and cherished enmities. They were an old council of warlords, come to remind and be (__) of who they were. Their wives and daughters served them well. The women might indulge themselves; gossip was at once the mark and compensation of their (__). They made loud and elaborate talk among themselves, full of jest and gesture, fright and false alarm. They went abroad in fringed and flowered shawls, bright beadwork and German silver. They were at (__) in the kitchen, and they prepared meals that were banquets. There were frequent cousin meetings, and great nocturnal feasts. When I was a child, I played with my cousins outside, where the lamplight fell upon the ground and the singing of the old people rose up around us and (__) away into the darkness. There were a lot of good things to eat, a lot of laughter and surprise. And afterwards, when the quiet returned, I lay down with my grandmother and could hear the frogs away by the river and feel the (__) of the air.
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