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about you two boys." Then he said to his wife, when he got there, 

 the sun, "My wife, how will you look at this now, what I am thinking 

 about our children? The oldest boy I think I am going to give him 

 a wife now." "All right, my husband, let us do so." So when they 

 agreed on the boy having a wife, they went to the cacique's house to 

 ask for the girl. And the cacique talked to his wife, too, about their 

 daughter. They thought it was well for the girl to get a husband 

 from the sun. So they all. Sun's wife and Sun, and the cacique's wife 

 and the cacique, agreed on the two children getting married. AMien 

 the two children were married. Sun said to his son, "Now, my son, 

 this is your wife, I have given you what you needed; through her you 

 are going to be happy; through her you are going to be cheerful; 

 through her you are going to do your work cheerfully; through her 

 you are going him ting cheerfully; through her you are going to be 

 happy with the people. Her name will be Malinche.'* My son, I 

 will make your home over by the salt lake, and we will come every 

 day to see how you are getting along. After this you shall go hunting 

 for deer, rabbits, birds, to support her nicely. This will be the con- 

 clusion by your father of establishing you where you shall always 

 stay." 



That is the last oi it. 



16. How THE Deer Got Their Red Eyes 



Deer old woman and Wolf old woman were good friends. They used 

 to go out together after wood and after food. One day when they 

 were out gathering wood both were tired, and they sat down to rest 

 under a cedar tree. Wolf old woman asked Deer old woman to let 

 her comb her hair. WTien Deer old woman sat dowTi, Wolf old woman 

 hit her and killed her. Then Wolf old woman got some meat and 

 took it home to her children. When she was passing the house of 

 Deer old woman's children, she gave them a piece of meat and told 

 them their mother woidd be late coming home that night. Then 

 Deer old woman's cliildren took the piece of meat and went inside to 

 roast it. As they were roasting it, it started to talk; it said it was 

 their mother's flesh and that Wolf old woman had killed her. So 

 they sat down and cried aU night long. Next morning Wolf old 

 woman went out to the mountain to get the rest of her meat. Wolf 

 old woman's children and Deer old woman's children came out to 

 play together. Wolf old woman's children were asldng Deer old 

 woman's children how they got such pretty red eyes. Deer old 

 woman's children told Wolf old woman's children that if they wished 

 to have pretty eyes, too, they would show them how. So they got 

 a lot of com cobs and shut Wolf old woman's children in, and Deer 

 old woman's children ran away before Wolf old woman came back. 



^ The Mexican term for the woman lissociated with Montezuma, his wife or .sister. 



