Atondido Stories
his neck and was carried far away and fell on his back. He was
left with his mouth wide open.
Since he had not come home to his mother, she wondered:
"What could have happened to my son? Why hasn't he come
back yet? Something must have happened to him. I better go and
look for him."
And so Mrs. Skunk went as far as the bank of the river. She
was looking everywhere for her son, but couldn't find him. She
began to cry when she found the tracks where the one with the
big antlers had come by running.
"They must have come by here," said Mrs. Skunk, and began
to follow the tracks.
She came to the place where her son had been left lying on
his back. When the mother caught sight of him, she noticed that
his teeth were showing and shouted at him: "Son, what are you
laughing at? All your teeth are showing," she said to him before
she had gotten very close. When she did get close she told him:
"Give me your hand. I've come to get you, but you're just laugh-
ing in my face." She put her hand on him, thinking that he was
still alive, but when she noticed that he was already dead, she
began to cry.
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