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380 SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO ANTHROPOLOGY NUMBER 23
sitting [job] or whatever he could. He went looking,
it seems, to the master's house, as we say. One who
was rich, as we say.
"Don't you have any jobs?" he asked when he
arrived.
"I have work, but who knows if you can stand
baby-sitting?" that Peter was told.
"As for me, it doesn't make any difference, just so
long as I get a job to live on," said that Peter.
"Well, all right, then," he said. [Peter] baby-sat.
He baby-sat there for a few days. But the baby cried
and cried. The sonofabitch lost his temper. He
picked up a needle. Quickly he stabbed it into its
breathing spot. It died. That kid died.
He went and laid it down in its bed. "I'm, hungry.
As long as the baby is asleep I'll eat, mistress. Or else
it will wake up, because it cries so much. It doesn't
let me eat," said that Peter.
"All right," she said. He ate. Yes!
After he had eaten, Lord, then he dashed off.
"Where did Peter go?" said that mistress. "Could my
child have slept this long?" she said. She went to
look at her child. It was stiff. It was dead. "Oh hell!"
she said now. But where would she find him now?
He had already gone to another town, too. He
dashed far away, too.
He reached another town, too. "Master, haven't
you any jobs?" he asked when he arrived.
"I do, but who knows if you'll work," he said.
"What kind of work do you have?" asked [Peter].
"There is pigherding," said that master.
"Ah, pigherding, yes, indeed, of course I like
that!" he said.
"Okay," he was told. He looked after those pigs.
He looked after them. He cared for those pigs a long
time.
Somebody came by. "Sell me your pigs!" [Peter]
was told.
"Ah, I won't sell them," he said. "The pigs I won't
sell. I'll sell them. I'll decide whether to sell them.
But I'll sell them all, don't think I'll sell [just] one!"
he said.
"Well, think it over carefully, then. If you'll sell
them all, then, sell them to me!" that Peter was told.
"Well, all right, but don't think I'll sell them
completely. A little will have to stay behind. Their
ears will stay. Their tails will stay. They'll stay with
me, of course! I'll cut them off," said [Peter].
"Well, that doesn't make any difference," said that
pig buyer. Several days passed, too.
Since they had agreed when he would come and
take those pigs—he came to take those pigs. As for
that fucking Peter, he cut off their ears and their
tails. He cut them off. Those pigs went off. They
ssa7 ya7el ta sna 7ajvalil xkaltik bu jk'ulej xkaltike.
Va7i 7un, "Mi muk' 7avabtel?" xi k'otel 7un.
"7Oy kabtel pero na7tik mi xkuch 7avu7un
ch'ipomal," xi la taj, x7utat la taj Pegro 7une.
"7A, 7a li vo7one muk' sk'oplal ja7 nox kwenta mi
yu7un 7ijta li kabtel Iive7 7o yeche," xi la taj Pegro
7une.
"Bweno, stak' che7e," xi la 7un. Ch'ipomaj la te
jayib k'ak'al ch'ipomaj la 7un, pero 7animal la x7ok'
ti 7unen ta j-meke, kap la sjol li piita 7une, stam la
jun 7akuxa 7un j-likel la stz'apbe ta ya7al 7un,
7icham taj, 7icham taj k'ox 7une.
Va7i 7un, ba la xpuch'an ta svayeb 7un. "7A li ta
xive7, Patrona, ta xive7 yo7 to vayem li 7unene, 7a ti
mi yu7n 7ijulave che7e yu7n tol x7ok' yu7n mu xak'
ve7ikon," xi la taj Pegro 7une.
"Bweno," xi la. Ve7 la 7un. Ji7!
Laj ve7uke, kere, ja7 7o la xlichbe 7un. "Bu bat ti
Pegro 7une?" xi la taj 7ajvalil 7une. "Mi yo7 to jal
7ivay li kole?" xi la. Ba la sk'el taj yol 7une,
taki-te7an la chamem la 7un, chamem la 7un. "7Ay
kavron!" xi xa la 7un. Pero bu xa tzta yu7n xa bat ta
yan 7o jtek-lum noxtok, slichbe ech'el nom noxtok
7un.
7Ava7i 7un, k'ot ta jun 7o jtek-lum noxtok 7un.
"Patron, mi muk' 7avabtel?" xi la k'otel 7un.
"7Oy pero na7tik mi xa7abtej," xi la 7un.
"K'usi 7abtelal chavak' 7un?" xi la 7un.
"7Oy xchabiel jchitom," xi la taj 7ajvalil 7une.
"7Aj, chabiej-chitome 7eso si lek xka7i bi 7a!" xi la
7un.
"Bweno," x7utat la 7un. Xchabi taj chitom 7une
xchabi la 7un, jal la xchabi taj chitom 7une.
Va7i 7un, 7ech' la 7a li jun krixchano 7un.
"Chonbon lachitome!" x7utat la 7un.
"7A, mu jchon," xi la 7un. "Chitome mu jchon, ta
jchon ta jnop ta jchon pero ta skotol ta jchon
mu7nuk xaval ta jchon ta j-kote," xi la 7un.
"Bweno, nopo lek che7e, 7a li ti mi7n chachon
skotole che7e chonbon!" x7utat la taj Pegro 7une.
"Bweno, stak' pero mu7nuk xaval ta jchon ta
j-mek batz'i ta to xkom jutuk li, ta xkom xchikin ta
xkom sne, ta xkom ku7un 7un bi, ta jjosbe komel," xi
la 7un.
"Bweno, muk' sk'oplal," xi la taj jman-chitom
7une, bat jayib k'ak'al noxtok 7un.
Bweno, komo trate xa k'usi 7ora chtal yik' taj
chitom 7une, tal la yik' taj chitom 7une, 7a taj jkobel
Pegro 7une sjosbe la taj xchikintake xchi7uk i sne
7une sjosbe la 7un, ja7 bat taj chitom 7une, kontrato