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53. They Rear Their Grandchild 



Natoai', long ago, there were living a grandfather and grandmother 

 and they had a grandcliild. They were rearing him on the baby 

 board. They were very poor. The grandcliild was left to them by 

 their daughter. They wondered and wondered how they could rear 

 that child. They cried together to see the child without his mother. 

 Grandfather and grandmother talked it over and over, how they 

 could save the child. Finally, grandmother said to grandfather, 

 "You might go out hunting." He went out and killed one little bird. 

 He came back, they ciicd, and grandmother began to cook the little 

 bird. She made a broth and she took the bird's leg and the baby was 

 suclving the broth from the leg. Every day grandfather had to go 

 out to lull a bird for the cliild. Finally the boy gi'ew up, through his 

 grandfather hunting those birds. They were very proud when he was 

 reared well. He was gi-owing big. Then his grandfather and grand- 

 mother said to him, "Now, grandchild, see what you can do now. 

 When you were a baby you were left by your mother. We reared 

 you on the flat board. Now we are very old. See what you can do 

 for us." Then the boy said, "Yes, father and mother, you have 

 done so much for me. Now it is my turn. I will ask you, grand- 

 mother, to make two tortillas." Then when gi-andmother made two 

 tortillas he tied them aromid liis waist. He said, "I am going out 

 hunting. If I am lucky, I wUl be back to-morrow. You raised me, 

 and now it is my turn." He went hunting. He was gone two days. 

 In two days he returned, caiTying a big deer on his back, ^^^len he 

 was coming, his grandmother saw him. She called out, "Mj* grand- 

 son is coming! Wy grandson is coming! " When he got to the door 

 she said, "Korikem!" korikem, niaku. Thank you! Thank you, 

 my grandson, that you bring the deer." After they brought the deer 

 in, they laid it right in the middle of the house, and the bov summoned 

 all his aunts and imcles and relatives to the house. Everybody came 

 and passed their hands over the deer. 



54. The Priest Who Resurrects 



Long ago** a padre was buried under the altar of the church. He 

 comes out every seven years, when our padre sends word to the 

 bishop. . . . The dirt rises up and up comes the coffin. The body 

 is preserved. He has gold teeth, no hair. . . . Three times I know 

 of this happening, and I have seen him. . . . We don't know what 

 he wants. 



*= Hawo', a man would say for thanks. (.See pp. 313, 447.) 



*« During the Rodriguez expedition of 1580 Fray Francisco Lopez was killed at old .Sandia. " More than 

 33 years" later the whereahouLs of his body was revealed to Fray Estevan de Perea, who reinterred the 

 remains. (Benavides, 221.) 



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