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396 SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO ANTHROPOLOGY NUMBER 23
"But where am I to go carry the firewood?" he
said.
"Go and bring it from there, there along the edge
of the gully!" she said. He went to bring the firewood.
"But where is the firewood? There isn't any," he
said. The firewood was just bones. That firewood
was just bones. There wasn't any. There wasn't any
firewood. There were bones. He never carried the
firewood. "There isn't any firewood," he said.
"Isn't the firewood heaped there?" he was asked.
"There are [piles], but they're bones," he said.
"Ah, but that's the firewood, of course!" Then he
went to carry back those bones. So he went to carry
back those bones. He brought them. It was those
bones the [spirits] wanted. "Well, you've seen now.
Well, go on!" he was told.
"Well, all right, then," he said. That man came
back [from the underworld]. Yes!
But he wasn't alive for long. He was alive for
three days after he came out. He was alive three
days. He went back again right away. He was
probably scared, you see. I've just heard a word or
two of that tale. That's all.
See also T9, T19, and their notes.
It was Mule and Donkey. Tiger came along.
"What are you doing, friend?" he asked that mule, as
we say.
"I'm not do—ing anything, because I'm worn out
from the pack. I just arrived," said [Mule].
"Who, who gives you your pack?" asked [Tiger].
"It's Man," said [Mule].
"What's Man like?" asked [Tiger].
"Two, two hands, two feet. Man. He walks," said
[Mule]. "But don't do anything to him! He whips
you," said [Mule].
"Ah, but me, if I see him, I'll eat him up!" said that
Tiger.
"Eh, you can't eat him up, Ti—ger!" said [Mule].
"Man will attack [you]!" he said. "He has a gun. He
has a machete. Yes, indeed, he'll attack [you], of
course!" he said. "He has a wife," he said.
He went on, that Tiger went on. "Well, we'll talk
together, then," he said [when he left]. That Tiger
went on. Then he met the wife of that Man. She was
washing clothes. "Are you Woman?" asked that
Tiger when he arrived.
"It's me," she said. "It's me, Tiger," she said.
"I'll eat you up!" he said.
What's Man Like?
T168
"Pero bu chba jkuch i si7e?" xi la 7un.
"Ba kucho tal Ie7 ta, Ie7 ta ti7ti7 be-o7e!" xi la 7un.
Bat la xkuch tal si7 7un.
"Pero bu li si7e ch'abal," xi la. Naka la bak ti si7
7une, naka la bak taj si7 7une, ch'abal ch'abal si7, 7oy
bak, mu la bu skuch ech'el si7. "Ch'abal si7," xi la
7un.
"Mi mu teuk busul li si7e?" x7utat la 7un.
"7Oy pero bak," xi la 7un.
"7An pero ja7 si7 7un bi!" x7utat la 7un. Ja7 to la
ba xkuch tal taj bak 7une, ja7 ba xkuch tal taj bak
7une, k'ot yu7un 7un ja7 la ja7 la tzk'anik taj bak
7une. "Bweno pwes, 7avil xa 7une, pwes batan 7un!"
x7utat la 7un.
"Bweno, stak' che7e," xi la 7un. 7Ilok' la tal taj
vinik 7une.
Buy, muk' xa la jal kuchul 7un, 7oxib la k'ak'al
kuxul xa, ti lok' tale 7oxib xa la k'ak'al kuxul cha7-bat
ta 7ora 7un, xxi7 nan chava7i 7une, ja7 yech ka7yoj
7unin j-p'el cha7-p'el skwentoal chak taj a7a, k'ajom
nox.
Ja7 la li ka7e, chi7uk buroe, 7ital bolome. "K'u
chapas, 7amigo?" xut la tal taj ka7 xkaltik 7une.
"Mu k'u ta jpa—s yu7n lubemon ta 7ikatzil ja7 to
liyul," xi la 7un.
"Much'u much'u chayak'be 7avikatz?" xi la 7un.
"Ja7 li vinike," xi la 7un.
"K'u x7elan li vinike?" xi la 7un.
"Chib chib sk'ob chib yok vinike chanav," xi la
7un. "Pero mu k'u 7avalbe Ie7e chak' 7arsial," xi la
7un.
"7A, pero li vo7on chak kile ta jti7!" xi la taj
bolom 7une.
"Je, mu xti7 7avu7un bolo—m!" xi la 7un. "Li
vinike chak'!" xi la 7un. "7Oy 7oy stuk' 7oy smachita
yu7n 7eso si yu7n chak' a7a!" xi la. "7Oy 7o yajnil,"
xi la 7un.
Beno, bat la 7un, bat la taj bolome. "Bweno, te
jk'opon jbatik che7e," xi la komel 7un. 7Ibat la taj
bolom 7une, te la stabe yajnil taj vinik, ch7uk'umaj la
7un. "Mi vo7ot ti 7antzote?" xi la k'otel taj bolom
7une.
"Vo7on," xi la 7un. "Vo7on, bolom," xi la 7un.
"Chajti7!" xi la 7un.