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divided them among the people. Then they set out for home. 

 Kasewat took his wife home. Da hama tcaitc. (This is the way it 

 happened.) 



The Adventures of San Diego 



San Diego *° lived east of Acoma on a mesa with his mother. She 

 was very old. One day San Diego took a trip to the south on horse- 

 back. He had lots of horses. He took the best horse he had, a 

 mare, kind o' red.^° He went down south. At about sundown he 

 reached a little Mexican town. He stopped at a Mexican's house a 

 mile north of the town. There were just a man and his wife. They 

 didn't have any children. They were very poor. They just had 

 one rooster; that's all. They just had one bed. The old Mexican 

 in the door saw San Diego ride up and said, "Hello, son." "Hello, 

 father; can I sleep here to-night?" "Sure, get off your horse. I'll 

 take the saddle ofl' and put hobbles on the horse and put him in the 

 pasture." 



The old woman gave San Diego his supper. "You eat first, and 

 we eat last," she said. "All right." After he got through eatuig 

 the woman said, "You better go to bed. You're tired. You been 

 riding all around all day horseback." "All right." So the old man 

 told his wife, "Let him have the bed. We can make a bed for us 

 with your dress and my coat. Let him have what we got." "All 

 right." 



In the next room they talked about breakfast. "What we going 

 to have?" "Well, I guess we kill our rooster." And then he took 

 their dollar (they had only one dollar) and went to the store and 

 bought some chili, flour, and lard. The old woman kill that rooster 

 that evening. Boil him up. The old man came back from the store. 

 They made their bed with the woman's dress and the man's coat. 

 San Diego, he's not sleep fall; he's just waiting till they get to sleep, 

 those people. San Diego, he's very glad those people treat him 

 good, and he's going to pray to God to give those people sheeps, 

 horse, pigs, chickens, house — good house — mans to take care of 

 sheeps, chickens, pigs. San Diego, he get up way in middle of night 

 and pray for all those things. And that night every tiling finished: 

 On the north side made corral for sheep; on the west side a corral for 

 cows; on the south side a corral for horses; on the east side a coiral 

 for pigs and cliickens. There were two giils to work in the kitchen, 

 six men to take care sheeps and horses. House was finished. Had 

 12 rooms, all furnished nice; nice bed. 'Longside was table with 

 best man's clothes; woman's clothes, too. San Diego had same bed, 

 same blankets what he had; he never change it. 'Bout 4 'clock in 



5" San Diego was said to be a k'atsina. ^ This tale is recorded almost verbatim. 



