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Tacho, el hermano <strong>de</strong> la Juanita, tenía<br />

nueve años. Era un cipote aprietado y<br />

con una cabeza <strong>de</strong> huizayote53 . Un día<br />

vido54 que su tata estaba furioso. La<br />

Juana le bía dicho quién sabe qué, y el<br />

tata le bía metido una penquiada <strong>de</strong>l<br />

diablo.<br />

—¡Babosa! —había oído que le <strong>de</strong>cía—<br />

¡Habís perdido lonra, que era lúnico<br />

que tráibas al mundo! ¡Si biera sabido<br />

quibas ir a <strong>de</strong>jar lonra al ojo diagua, no<br />

te <strong>de</strong>jo ir aquel diya; gran babosa!...<br />

Tacho lloró, porque quería a la Juana<br />

como si hubiera sido su nana; e<br />

ingenuamente, <strong>de</strong> escondiditas, se<br />

jue al ojo diagua y se puso a buscar<br />

cachazudamente lonra e la Juana.<br />

Él no sabía ni poco ni mucho cómo<br />

sería lonra que bía perdido su hermana,<br />

pero a juzgar por la cólera <strong>de</strong>l tata, bía<br />

<strong>de</strong> ser una cosa muy fácil <strong>de</strong> hallar.<br />

Tacho se maginaba lonra, una cosa lisa,<br />

redondita, quizá brillosa, quizá como<br />

moneda o como cruz. Pelaba los ojos<br />

por el arenal, río abajo, río arriba, y<br />

no miraba más que piedras y monte,<br />

monte y piedras, y lonra no aparecía.<br />

29<br />

Tacho, Juanita’s brother, was nine years<br />

old. He was a skinny kid with spiky hair<br />

like a pear squash. 55 One day he saw<br />

that his pa was furious. Juana had told<br />

him who knows what, and his father<br />

had beaten her like hell.<br />

“What a stupid girl!” he overheard his<br />

father tell her. “You lost the honor, 56 the<br />

only thing you brought into this world!<br />

If ah woulda knew you wuz gunna leave<br />

your honor at the spring, ah wouldn’a<br />

let you go that day, you stupid girl!<br />

Tacho cried, because he loved Juana<br />

as if she were his mom. Naively, he<br />

sneaked off for the spring and started<br />

conscientiously looking for Juana’s<br />

honor.<br />

He had little to no i<strong>de</strong>a what the honor<br />

that his sister had lost looked like, but<br />

judging from his father’s rage, it must<br />

be a very easy thing to find. Tacho<br />

thought of the honor as a smooth,<br />

round, maybe shiny thing, perhaps like<br />

a coin or a cross. With his eyes wi<strong>de</strong><br />

open he searched by the shore, down<br />

the river, up the river, and nothing but<br />

rocks and wild grass, wild grass and<br />

rocks. The honor was not found.<br />

53. Sechium edule. Chayote.<br />

54. Arcaismo. “Ver era antiguamente veer (vidére): según eso, veo, veea, (Mendoza, 52), etc., era lo<br />

regular, lo mismo que veía, veías, etc. Hoy tenemos por arcaicas las formas vees, vía, etcétera, al contrario<br />

<strong>de</strong> lo que <strong>de</strong>bia ser. Vi<strong>de</strong> y vido por vi y vió, son arcaismos.” (Robles Dégano, 1903: 163)<br />

55. Squash with small thorns. Sechium edule.<br />

56. Not hers, since honor is a family matter.

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