Atondido Stories
"This is where we're going to eat," said Mr. Jaguar to the little
skunk.
"All right," said the little skunk.
"Come on over here. I'm going to sharpen my knife," said Mr.
Jaguar.
"All right," said the little skunk, looking at his godfather.
Mr. Jaguar sharpened his claws, which he called his "knife."
"I sharpened my knife. Now you're going to be on guard, be-
cause I am going to sleep. When you see them come, wake me
up," said Mr. Jaguar.
"All right," said the little skunk, "all right, godfather."
Then Mr. Jaguar told him: "Don't shout. Just scratch my belly
when they come. Scratch my belly, so I won't alarm them. But
don't wake me up if just any little old animals without antlers
come along, only when the one with big antlers gets here. That's
when you'll wake me up."
"All right," said the little skunk. Then the one with the big
antlers came, and the skunk awakened Mr. Jaguar. He scratched
his belly, and pointed out the deer to Mr. Jaguar, who attacked
the animal with big antlers. He went after him and seized him.
"All right, my godson, let's eat. We're going to eat meat," said
the jaguar.
"All right," said the little skunk. And so they ate and ate.
"Now we're going to take whatever leftovers there are to
your mother," said the jaguar.
"Since we are full, we can take something to your mother.
Your mother will have meat to eat, just as we did. We will take
some to your mother," said the jaguar. When they came back to
the mother's house, he told the lady:
"Look at the food here. Look, we've brought you some food,
the food that we hunted. Eat your fill of the meat, comadre,"
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