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314 SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO ANTHROPOLOGY NUMBER 23
I want [someone] to talk to. I'm content if they fix
my meal when I go someplace."
"Where in the world do you go?"
"Oh, I go to the churches, I go visiting at the
houses. I go wherever I can find bread to eat.
Because I only eat bread. I don't eat tortillas," he
said.
"Where in the world is your bread? Where in the
world do you get money to pay for the bread? It's
just stolen by you. Stupid loafer, step aside!" said the
Holy Martyr.
"That's why I'm asking you."
"Oh, go, go take one! I've been sick and tired of
this from the start. Go take one! There's one coming
on the Chamula trail," he said. [The Spook] quickly
went to look. As it turned out, he went and hugged a
horrible hawthorn tree, too.
"But Marty, I've hurt myself badly. Thorns stuck
in my mouth, thorns stuck in my face. You just
tricked me. It certainly was a horrible hawthorn I
hugged."
"It's because you can't see! There he is walking
away. It's because you can't see. Go look! There he
is," [Marty] told him again.
"I guess I'll go look," he said. So then he landed in
the river, submerged [in the river], pushed off the
bridge by the kick of a mule that was crossing over.
He landed in the river, submerged in the river. God,
at that time the river was full. He was carried off by
the river as far as Pum-lajan 7Uk'um [Roaring River]
or wherever it was the Spook was able to get out.
You see, he got out. He was tossed out by the
flooding river. Probably he didn't drown. Maybe
nothing happened to him. So he came again to talk
the same way. "You know, I fell in the river."
"Don't fall in the river! It's because you walk on
the edge of the bridge. The mule pushed you off, but
mules walk on one side, people on the upper side.
You can't succeed the way you are. Don't keep
coming and making me lose my temper! You haven't
anything to say to me anymore. Go look for someone
else to give you others. [See] if there is someone
who will offer them to you, but me, I won't give
away my children. My children please me. My
children are sick and tired of being frightened. You
scare them so often. One came to complain yesterday.
You see, you nearly dragged her out of her
house. You see, you scared her. You see, you caught
her chickens. You see, you killed her chicks. You
see, you drank a water gourd full of eggs.
"Now, they were useful to my children to pay for
my candles, to pay for my flowers. What happened
to the poor [people's] eggs? You broke all of them.
You sucked all of them. Are you a weasel that you
drank my children's things? That's why I won't give
jve7el la k'al bu chibate."
"Bu ma xana7 xak'ot?"
"7An, chik'ot ta 7eklixaetik, yu7un chik'ot ta
vula7al ta naetik, ja7 ti bu xba jsa7 yo7 kaxlan vaj
jve7e, yu7un naka kaxlan vaj jna7 sve7el, mu jna7
sve7el vaj," xi la.
Va7i 7un, "Bu ma lakaxlan vaj bu ma chatabe
stojol li kaxlan vaj, naka 7avelek' sonso jaragan k'ej
aba!" xi la ti jch'ul-maltile.
"Yech'o me ti chajk'anbe 7une."
"7An, batan, ba 7ik'o, batz'i ta xa xtavan xka7i,
vo7ne ta likele, ba 7ik'o, 7a Ie7 xtal jun ta belel
Chamu7e," xi la. Ba la sk'el ta 7anil 7un, lajeltza yil
ch'ix la smeyoj 7ik'ot noxtok 7un.
"Pero Maltil, batz'i lilaj ta j-mek, 7i7och ch'ix ta
ke, 7i7och ch'ix ta jsat, batz'i yech 7alo71oon 7un, yil
ch'ix jmeyoj 7ik'ot a7a,"
"Yu7un mu xk'ot tasat, 7a la Ie7 xva7von ech'ele
che7e yu7un mu xk'ot tasat, batan avil 7a Ie7 xlok'e,"
xut la noxtok.
"Ba jk'el kik che7e," xi la 7un. Ja7 la taj tz'ajal la
k'ot ta 7uk'um, puje ta tek'el yu7un mu ka7 ch7ech'
ta ba k'o, tz'ajal la k'ot ta 7uk'um 7un, dyox, ja7 7o la
noj ti 7uk'um 7une, bat ta 7uk'um 7un, ta 7a li ta
Pum-lajan 7Uk'um mi bu to la k'ot ta lok'el ti ti
j7ik'al 7une.
Va7i 7un, lok' la 7un, jipe lok'el ta nojel 7uk'um
7une, muk' nan xjik'av 7un, muk' nan k'u spase, ja7 la
yech tal yal noxtok. "Buy 7un, lip'aj ta 7uk'um."
"Mu xap'aj ta 7uk'um yu7un ti7il ba k'o chaxanav
yech'o xal ti chap'aj ta 7uk'ume, 7a ti manchuk ti7il
ba k'o laxanave che7e, 7a li nastixp'un ni ka7e, pero
yu7un ka7 ch7ech' i ta j-jote, xi li krixchano ta
7ak'ole, yu7un mu xatojob chak H7e, mu xa xtal
7asokilan jjol, mu xa k'u xtal 7avalbon, ba xak'el 7o
buch'u xayak'be yan, mi 7o buch'u xask'elanbee, yan
i vo7one mu jk'elan jch'amaltak bal xka7i
jch'amaltak tavan xa7i li jch'amaltak ta sibtasele, toj
tol no la chasibtas, H7 7a sk'an parte jun voljee, va7i
jutuk mu 7akil lok'el ta snae, va7i 7asibtase va7i
7atzakbe yalak'e, va7i 7amilbe svivichtake, va7i
7avuch' j-p'ej pulum vo7 ton kaxlane."
"7Ora, bal cha7i li jch'amaltak 7une mi stojol
jkantela mi stojol jnichim, k'usi ti ston yalak'
proveetik 7une, 7avok'anbe skotol, 7avuch'anbe
skotol, mi sabenot chavuch'anbe k'usuk yu7un i
jch'amaltake, yech'o mu xa k'u xakak'be, k'ej aba