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after the horse had drunk, he turned around and resumed his beautiful former shape. He was again a large fat horse with silver bridle and beautiful saddle. Santiago also turned around and became a beautiful vaquero. Then the girl cried no more, and willingly accompanied Santiago to his home. They rode along toward the north, and the following day they came to the Devil's house. The wife wanted to take a rest in the house; but Santiago told her what had happened to him on his way out, and they travelled on.

When Santiago was not far from his father's house, he saw a jackrabbit, and he called it. He said to it, "Go to my father's and mother's house, and tell them that I am coming with my wife. Do not be afraid! Nobody will kill you." He tied a letter to the jack-rabbit's ear, and let it run. The jack-rabbit ran hard to the house of Santiago's father, and jumped about in the yard. The people saw it, and noticed that something was attached to its ear. Then they caught it, took off the letter, and Santiago's father read that his son was coming. He called his people, and told them to prepare a feast and to invite the neighbors. At sunset Santiago approached over the hill, and the people greeted him and took him home.

9. THE GOOD CHILD AND THE BAD.1

A Mexican girl wanted to marry Lei's son. She was a poor girl, she had one calf and no cow. Her mother was hungry for meat; she said, “Let us kill the calf." Her mother said, "Take out the stomach. Wash it well." The stomach was nice and white. It slipped down in the creek. She took a stick. A catfish took away the stomach. The girl cried. A man came out of a house, a house with walls, but no roof. The man was dressed nice. He said to the girl, "What are you crying for?" She said, "I dropped the stomach, the fish took it. My mother will whip me." - "Don't cry," said the man. "Go down to that house, and you will find a baby. Kill that baby. Its stomach will be white and clean." The girl went, and saw the boy. It was a nice white baby with black hair and eyes. It laughed all the time, it did not cry. "I don't want to kill that baby. My mother may whip me, I don't care." She left the house. She met the man. That man was Yosh (dios, "god"). "Where is that stomach?" "I did not want to kill that baby."-"All right! You go home, your mother won't whip you." As soon as she went into the house,

1 Tale 9 was told in English by Nick of Zuñi, and recorded by E. C. Parsons. He has told the story, as well as other Mexican stories, at his fraternity meetings. These Mexican stories he too learned in a sheep-camp. He remarked that Mexicans tell nasty stories,stories nice for men, not nice for women.-For bibliography see MAFLS 13 : xvii; also Alabama and Koasati, J. R. Swanton (JAFL 26:211). Similar Catalán and Portuguese versions are quoted by Bolte and Polívka (1: 216).

there was a light in the house. When she went in, there were four big stars on her forehead. "Who is that girl?" asked her mother. "Mother, that's me." The mother said, "I have no nice girl like that. You must be the girl of some rich people."—"No, mother, I am your daughter, I went to wash the calf's stomach. It slipped down, and a fish took it. I cried. A man came out of a house. He told me to go to a house and find a baby, to kill it and take its stomach. I went to the house, but I did not want to kill the baby. I met the same man. He said, 'Go home, your mother will not whip you.' The man told me that." The girl sat down. People found out that the woman had a nice girl. Lei's (king's) son did not like the other king's daughter. He liked the girl with the stars. The other king's daughter said, "Mother, let us kill a calf." They killed one, and took out its stomach. She went to wash it. It slipped down, and the fish took it. She cried. The man came, and said, "Go to that house, you will find a baby. Kill it and take its stomach." She went down and killed that nice baby, and took out its stomach, and washed its stomach in the creek. Yosh met her. He said, "You take it to your mother. You will seem different to your mother." She took it to her mother. Her mother opened the door. Her mother saw a long, big horn sticking out from her forehead. "What is the matter with you?" asked her mother. Her mother sawed off the horn with a meat-saw, and put a cloth around her head. The girl with the stars on her forehead had a cloth around her head too. Lei's son made a mistake and married the girl with the horn. A poor man married the girl with the stars on her forehead. That's what makes Mexicans get rich. Rich man made a mistake, and pretty soon he was poor. Poor man made no mistake, and he got rich. That's Mexican story.

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COLECTADOS EN MÉXICO, D.F., POR EL SR. PAUL SILICEO PAUER; DIBUJADOS POR EL SR. LUIZ NUÑEZ PLUMET.

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