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402 SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO ANTHROPOLOGY NUMBER 23
temper. He slugged them, but their souls departed
for good. They died. Because he was strong, as we
say.
And they got tired of the way he hit those students
so much, too. He was thrown out. "Get out once and
for all!" he was told.
"All right, okay!" he said. "But plea—se get a
walking stick for me. I'll go," he said. They got a
walking stick for him. It was some walking stick! But
you couldn't even lift it. We couldn't lift it. First
they got a [real] walking stick for him, then. It
probably wasn't very thick. "Lord, what good is this
to me?" he said. "I want a bigger one," he said. He
was given a bi—gger one. Who knows if it took two
men or what to carry that stick. He took it. He went.
He went. He journeyed a long ways.
He met up with one of our countrymen on the
way. "Where are you going, friend?" they asked
each other. "As for me, I'm going to wherever I fall
dead. It makes no difference, because I've left like
this," he said.
"Sonofabitch, it's just the same with me, too!" said
the other one. The two met up with each other, as
we say. They we—nt on again. They me—t another
of our countrymen, too, on the way, as we say.
There were three now.
But they got te—rribly thi—rsty. Those others,
those companions of his, simply longed to drink
some water—his two friends.
"But there's probably some water here," said that
bear child. There was a pit there. "If you want to, let
me down. I'll climb down," he said. They tied vines
together. They tied them and lowered them. They
tied them and lowered them. [The bear child]
climbed down to the bottom where the water was.
But there he met the Earth Lord. He met two girls
there. He took one out. He took one of those girls
out. "Well, pull me out! I'm coming out now," he
said. He was taking the girl out.
Then that other girl came out.
That bear stayed behind, as we say. And, "Well,
now I'm coming out myself. Pull me [up]!" he said,
too. It was supposedly him.
But it was a big rock that weighed just the same,
as we say. Then he tied that rock [so it could be]
lifted. Lord it just reached halfway up the pit. Then
it was tossed down. They thought it was the bear.
They thought it was him [they were dropping].
But it was that rock. Oh, the black gentleman
arrived. Lord, he was the lord of that place, it seems,
as we say. The black gentleman arrived. They hit
each other. Quickly [the bear child] grabbed his
knife. He cut off one of [the Earth Lord's] ears. He
cut off one of his ears.
Since he couldn't get out, you see, there was no
ch'amal 7osov 7une, ta la st'anbe majele pero yu7n la
chlok' xch'ulel ta j-moj, yu7n la xcham ta j-moj,
yu7n la 7o spwersa yu7un xkaltik.
Va7 7un, 7i tavan la xa7iik taj x7elan tol tzmaj taj
jchan-vunetik noxtok 7une, 7a li lok'esat la. "Batan
ta j-moj!" x7utat la 7un.
"Bweno stak'!" xi la 7un. "Pero 7abulaja—nik 7un,
sa7bekon junuk jnam-te7 7un, chibat," xi la 7un.
7Isa7bat la jun snam-te7 7un, jun snam-te7 pero
yu7n, yu7n me ja7uk stotz la 7avu7un, mu la xlik
ku7untik, sa7bat la pimero jun snam-te7e che7e te
nan k'u yunen yijil. "Ke7re k'usi bal 7o chka7i Ii7e?"
xi la 7un. "Jk'an mas muk'," xi la 7un. 71 7i7ak'bat la
ma—s xa muk' na7tik mi cha7-vo7 yajval k'u la
cha7al taj 7ispet taj te7 7une, stzak la ech'el bat la
7un, bat la 7un, stam yok ta j-moj 7un.
Beno, 7isnup ta be i jun jchi7iltik 7un. 7A li, "Bu
chabat, amigo?" xut la sbaik 7un. "Vo7one chibat ja7
ti buy pak'al xilaje muk' sk'oplal yu7un lok'emon
chak Ii7e," xi la 7un.
"Puta, ja7 yechon 7uk!" xi la taj jun 7une. I sta la
sbaik cha7-vo7 xkaltik 7un, ba—tik xa la noxtok 7un,
snu—p ta be 7otro jun noxtok jchi7iltik xkaltik 7un,
pas ta 7ox-vo7 7un.
Buy, ta xta—kij la sti7 ta j-me—k, solel la chak
yuch' vo7 taj taj yan xchi7iltak 7une, cha7-vo7
xchi7il 7une.
Va7 7un, "Pero 7o nan vo7 Ii7 toe," xi la taj
ch'amal 7osov 7une. 7O la te jun ch'en 7un. "Mi
xak'an xa 7a li niton yalel ta xiyal," xi la 7un.
7Istz'akulanik 7a li 7ak'etik 7istz'akulan la yalel 7un,
7iyal taj ta chak vo7 7une.
Bweno, buy, te la sta 7a li yajval balamil 7un, te la
sta cha7-vo tzeb te yo7 7une, 7islok'es la jun 7un,
7islok'es jun taj tzeb 7une. "Bweno, niton me lok'el
7un, ta xa me xilok' tal," xi la. Tzeb la tzlok'es 7un.
7Ora, lok' taj jun tzeb 7une.
Bweno, te kom taj taj 7osov xkaltik 7une. 71
"Bweno, ta xa me xilok' tal vo7on 7une nitikon me
7un!" xut la noxtok 7un. Ja7 xa ta 7alel 7une.
Bu, j-p'ej la mol ton ja7 nox k'u cha7al yalal
xkaltik 7une, ja7 7o ja7 la 7ixchuk muyel taj ton
7une, kere, ja7 no la ti 7ista 7o71ol ch'en ja7 la sjipat
yalel tal 7un xak' ja7uk li li 7osov 7une, xak' ja7uk
7un.
Buy, ja7 taj ton la 7une, 7aj, k'ot la 7ik'al mol 7un,
ke, yajval ya7el taj balamil xkaltik 7une, k'ot la 7ik'al
mol 7un, smaj la sba xchi7uk 7un, j-likel la 7istzak
skuchilu sjosbe la jun xchikin, 7isjosbe la jun xchikin.
Bweno, komo mu xa xlok' chava7i 7une, mu xa k'u