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290 SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO ANTHROPOLOGY NUMBER 23
it for anything. It will give it to you, but it's a favor
to you. It isn't anyone else we are favoring. It is you
yourself I am favoring. If you get drunk, if you
drink, if you keep misbehaving, if you say to yourself,
/ have mo—neyl I'm a ma—n! I'm going to the
cantinas to buy something to drink! God, then you
might as well forget it! Your money will disappear.
Your pennies will disappear. But if you do as I say,
ask it for your laborers. You will clear your land.
You will plant more corn. You will have corn. You
will have beans. You will be kind to an orphan, a
pauper who comes to your house, Sir, won't you treat
me to a quarter measure of corn. We'll reimburse you.
We'll pay you, if you are told that, don't accept
payment. You will give them a box or two boxes.
You'll give them to whomever arrives at your house,
because you will be kind to orphans, you will be kind
to paupers, on the surface of the holy earth. No
longer will you be wretched, no longer will you be
miserable. You will get corn. You will get beans.
Because of a favor, you, too, will get them. In the
same way you, yourself, will do favors to orphans, to
paupers," said the gentleman. The man did what he
said. He reached manhood. He planted his corn. He
planted his beans. His corn was harvested. His beans
were harvested. The corn [filled] one side of the
house. A bin of beans was harvested.
"Now I have corn. Now I have beans. I don't
need anything else," he said.
The second year he asked [his ring] for laborers.
Even more corn was harvested. A houseful of corn.
His beans [Filled] half the house. He felt confident
now. "I can't sell either. Even if I sell it I'll just give
it to my workers, if someone comes to my house
looking for work," he said. Oh, his workers weren't
paid with corn. He had the ring do the work. "Ring,
I want lots of workers because the weeds are ruining
my corn field," he told his ring.
The workers went. Eight workers went out. The
laborers worked two weeks [doing] that. They went
out to weed his corn field.
He bought oxen. He bought sheep. He bought
mules. His mules were for transporting firewood,
because his workers cut wood. The oxen were for
plowing his land.
There was nothing wanting. He had sheep. He had
mules. He went and looked after his sheep. The
sheep manure was useful to him. He fertilized his
soil, it seems. He had corn. He had beans. He had
pumpkins and so on. As for his pumpkins, "Sir,
won't you sell me one of your pumpkins because I
long to eat some," said the people when they arrived,
when they went to ask for pumpkins.
"Shucks, I won't sell them. Just eat them! That's
not many pumpkins. Come back whenever you want
chayak'be, pero yu7un 7ak'uxubinel vo7ot mu
yu7unuk 7o buch'u ta jk'uxubintik yu7un vo7ot
chajk'uxubin, mi layakub mi 7avuch' mi k'u
7anopilan mi7n 7Oy jtak'i—n viniko—n, ba jman
kuch' ta tyentaetik! mi xachie, dyox, mu xana7 xa ta
yolon ta yak'ol 7un bi 7a, ta me xch'ay 7atak'in, ta
me xch'ay 7amerio, yan ti mi yu7un 7ach'un i
jmantale chak'anbe 7avajabtel chaboj 7avosil chajam
7achob, ch7ayan 7avixim, ch7ayan 7achenek'
chak'uxubin jun me7on jun mu7nat xk'ot ta 7ana.
Tottik, kere mi mu xak'uxubinon junuk te7 7avixim,
jk'extik, jmantik, mi xa7utate, mu xach'ambe stojol,
chavak' jun te7 mi chib te7, xavak'be ti buch'u xk'ot
tanae, yu7un chak'uxubin me7on, yu7un chak'uxubin
mu7nat, ta sba ch'ul-balamil, mu yu7unuk 7abol xa
aba 7utz'7utz' xa aba chata tavixime chata
tachenek'e, yu7un k'uxubinel chata 7uk ja7 no 7ox
yech chak'uxubin me7on mu7nat ti vo7ote," xi la ti
jun jtata7tik 7une. 7Ixch'un mantal ti vinik 7une, sta
vinikal 7un, 7istz'un la ti yixime, 7istz'un la ti
xchenek'e, lok' la yixim, lok' la xchenek', 7a la ti
7ixime, j-jot la na, 7a la ti xchenek'e, 7a li j-p'ej la ten
7ilok\ '
Va7i 7un, "7Oy xa kixim, 7oy xa jchenek', mu xa
k'u jna7," xi la.
Va7i 7un, ta la sk'anbe yaj7abtel ta xchibal jabil,
mas xa la 7ep 7ilok' yixim, j-p'ej la na 7ixim, j-jot la
na chenek', tzotz xa yo7on 7un. "Mu stak' jchon
noxtok, 7ak' 7o xa jchon ja7 no 7ox chkak'be ti
kaj7abtel ti mi7n 7oy buch'u xtal ssa7 7abtel ta jnae,"
xi la. 7Aa, mu7 no la x7ak'bat tztoj ta 7ixim ti
yaj7abtel 7une, ja7 la chak' 7abtejuk 7abtel ti 7ixtalal
7une. "7Ixtalal ta jk'an 7ep kaj7abtel yu7un ja7 li
chlaj xa ta 7ak'in i jchobe," xut la ti yixtol 7une.
Va7i 7un, bat la ti j7abteletik 7une, lok' la
vaxak-vo7 ti j7abtel 7une, chib la xemana 7abtej yech
ti j7abteletik 7une, lok' la ta 7ak'in i xchob 7une.
Va7i 7un, sman la svakax, sman la xchij, sman la
ska7, 7a ti ska7e yu7un la chean 7o si7, 7a li yu7un la
ja7 tztuch' si7 ti yaj7abteltake, 7a ti vakaxe yu7un la
7a li ta svok' 7o yosil.
Va7i 7un, mu k'u ti palta, 7oy xchij, 7oy ska7, 7a ti
xchij 7une, chba xchabi stuk 7un, ja7 la bal cha7ibe ti
stzo7 ti xchij 7une, chak'be sk'a7al ya7el ti yosil
7une, 7ayan ti yixime ti xchenek'e ti xch'ume ti
k'utikuk 7oy 7une. 7A la ti ch'ume, "Tottik mi mu
xachonbon j-p'ejuk 7ach'um, yu7un batz'i chak
jlo7," xi la k'otel ti krixchano chba sk'an mayil 7une.
"Muk' bu ta jchon, kere, Io7an no 7ox, mu yepaluk
ch'um, k'u 7ora xak'an xalo7e xatalik, ja7 no 7ox