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168 SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO ANTHROPOLOGY NUMBER 23
"You, you don't get angry. Me, I just have a bad
temper," said the boy.
Now the boy took it seriously. He had sheep now.
He had mules. He had corn. He had beans now. He
no longer felt any poverty. The boy did favors for
his mother now. He did favors for his father. He
used to look on his mother with annoyance. He
never would give her a single tortilla. He wouldn't
give her a meal, nor did he even fold over a tortilla
[with food inside] for her when his mother arrived.
It seemed as if he hadn't seen her. It was because he
hadn't had anything when he married that woman
that way. They grew rich. The wife was so goodhearted.
"Come on, right now, mother, we'll eat. I
killed a chicken. Come, eat!" said the wife now. The
wonderful meal was already bubbling. Her chicken
was well-prepared with potatoes, well-prepared with
rice and whatever they ate long ago.
They ate well. Her husband would pass by to
bring his mother. They ate contentedly. "Get yourself
[some of] our food, mother. I'm eating with your
son. Dish out whatever you want to eat," she said.
"No, you serve it out, daughter, dish me up as
much as you want!"
"But how would I know what you want? Whether
a little . . . whether it's a heart or a wing or its little
neck or a drumstick or the rump. Whatever you
want. I don't know how [you like it]."
"Then give me a piece of its little heart, daughter,
not much, with a bit of its little wing, if you'll give
me that as a present," said his mother.
They ate well. "Come and eat later today, mother.
Come and eat [when] we eat. Spend the night, I
guess. Then tomorrow we'll eat again. We'll eat our
little meal cold then," said the man. There were just
three of them together with the mother-in-law of the
girl who was a snake, it seems. Because she was
Thunderbolt's child, the woman was very white,
very fair.
The lady went to spend the night at their house
because she was all alone. She had just the one son
who was used to going hunting all the time. The boy
had bought a gun to go hunting with. He only had
enough money for a gun to go hunting with, to have
fun with. [They were poor] since the lady had only
one child that grew up.
They were kind to her. The lady was fine now.
She grew strong. She picked up and diverted her
daughter-in-law's child. She carried her daughter-inlaw's
child for her, her first child, it seems, [the
child] of that boy. Because the lady's husband had
died. When her husband was dead she took the part
of father and mother for her daughter-in-law and her
son. When she died the girl was brokenhearted over
Va7i 7un, "7A li vo7ote mu xana7 xakap, vo7on
no 7ox i tol sok jjole," xi la ti krem 7une.
7Ora, ti krem 7une, 7iyich' sba ta muk' 7un, 7ayan
la xchijik 7ayan la ska7ik, 7ayan la yiximik, 7ayan la
xchenek'ik mu xa la k'u me7anal ta xa7i 7un,
chk'uxubin xa la sme7, chk'uxubin xa la stot, ti krem
7une, 7a la ti sme7e 7ilbaj to 7ox la xil, mu to 7ox la
xak'be junuk yot, mu to 7ox la xak'be 7a li sve7el, mi
ja7uk la spuxbe yot ti k'al xk'ot ti sme7e, muk' la
yiloj yilel, ja7 la ti ch'abal, 7iyik' la taj 7antz x7elan
7une, k'ulejanik 7un, yech la ti 7antz 7une, toj lek la
yo7on 7un. "La7 mach'a, me7, ve7ikotik, 7ijmil me
kalak', Ia7 me ve7an!" xi la ti 7antz 7une. Xbalbon xa
la slekil ti sve7ele lek xa la ta 7is-ak' ti yalak'e, lek xa
la ta 7aros mi k'utikuk ta sti7 ti vo7ne 7une.
Va7i 7un, lek la chve7ik 7un, chik' la jelavel ti
sme7 ti smalal 7une, jun la yo7on chve7ik. "Sa7o li
jve7eltike, jme7, 7a li vo7one chive7 xchi7uk li
7akrem 7une, jotz'o k'u x7elan chak'an chave7e," xi
la 7un.
"7I7i, jotz'o me, tzeb, jotz'bon tal k'u yepal sk'an
7avo7on!"
"Pero k'u xi ta jna7 k'u x7elan chak'an chati7 mi
yunen, mi yo7on mi xxik' mi yunen nuk', mi yo7 mi
spech chak, k'usi chak'an, mu jna7 k'u x7elan."
Va7i 7un, "Ja7uk 7ak'bon ti yunen 7o7on
j-tuch'uke, tzeb, mu no 7ox yepaluk xchi7uk j-tz'uj
yunen xik' mi xak'elanbone," xi la ti sme7e.
Va7i 7un, lek la chve7ik 7un. "Xtal me ve7an tana
7un, me7, xtal me ve7an, xive76tik xavayuk kik ja7
to ti 7ok'ob xa xive7otik noxtok 7une, sik xa ta
jlajestik kunen ve7eltike," xi la ti vinike. Yu7un la
stuk 7ox-vo7 xchi7uk ti yalib me7el ti tzeb ya7el
chon 7une, yu7un la xch'amal chauk 7un, batz'i sak
batz'i meka la ti 7antz 7une.
Va7i 7un, 7a ti jmeme7tik 7une, ba la vayuk ta sna
7un, yu7un la stuktuk 7un, yu7un la junjun ti skrem
nopem ta labal paxyal 7une, smanoj la stuk' ti krem ti
k'al chpaxyaj 7o 7une, skux 7o yo7on ja7 ti stuktuk
jun yol ti ch'i ti jmeme7tik 7une.
Va7i 7un, sk'uxubinik la 7un, lek xa ti jmeme7tik
7une, 7ik'ak'aj to la 7un, 7isch'ipbe to la yol ti yalib
7une, skuchbe to la yol ti yalib 7une, sba yol ya7el,
taj krem 7un taje, yu7un la cham smalal ti jmeme7tik
7une, 7a ti k'alal chamem xa ti xmalale, ja7 xa sk'exol
stot sme7 ya7el ti yalibe, ti skrem 7une, ti k'al
7ichame, batz'i k'ux la ta yo7on ti yalib me7el ti
cham ti tzeb 7une. "Mu xa buch'u spet kol 7un, mu