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thing of you, my friend. After you have gathered up everything, 

 you must assemble all the poor people and give a httle money to 

 everybody and help them, and the rest will be for you." And he left 

 him, and that boy became a rich man. 



31. How Burro Catches Fox 



There were some shepherds. They moved camp and they sent the 

 burro to town to get some flour. The burro on its way back met a 

 fox. The fox took all the sacks of flour the burro had. After the 

 burro got to the sheep camp, the shepherds thought Burro had taken 

 the sacks, and they started to beat him. Burro thought to himself 

 he was not going to be punished for something he had not done, so 

 he formed a plan. They sent Burro back to town after some more 

 flour. When he was coming back, he knew at what place he had met 

 Fox and before he got there he started to defecate. He kept on 

 defecating all along the traU. After the fox saw him defecating, he 

 went to find out what was the matter with him. As soon as the fox 

 got close enough, the burro caught Fox and dragged him into camp. 

 After he brought him in, the shepherds knew who had torn up the 

 sacks the burro just bought. So they sldnned Fox alive and let him 

 go. The wife of the old fox was looking around for Idm. WTien she 

 went outside, she saw Fox coming over the hill with a red coat on. 

 The old woman hollered. "Say, senor with the red coat, have you 

 seen my husband?" Fox answered, "I am your husband; don't you 

 know me any more?" So the old woman fox sent out her two httle 

 children after some cow excrement. After the children brought some 

 cow excrement they made a big fire. After there were some red-hot 

 ashes, they put Fox old man on top to cure him, to leave him sano! 

 sano! (well! well!). He was roasted. 



32. The Goat and the Padre " 



An old woman at Zia had a pet goat. It protected her hke a dog 

 and would butt at people. Finally it died. There was a dance at 

 Jemez. She went over to it and she went to Mass. The father had 

 a long beard. When she looked at him, she began to cry. "What 

 are you crying about, my daughter?" asked the padre. She would 

 not tell him, but he kept on asldng her, thinking she was in trouble. 

 "Well, father, I had a goat with a long beard just like yours. Every 

 time I see you bending your head I recall my goat." "You stay out 

 of this church!" cried the padre. So the old woman was chased out 

 of the church. 



" Heard from a man of Zia. For bibliography, see F. F. Communications, No . 1834. 



