Along the Rio Grande Page: 69
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Marianna Culmanero 69
involved a lot of work, and now he could postpone it
until later.
"Dond' esta Marianna?" I asked, for I was not yet
sure of his identity.
"Me Marianna," he replied, tapping his chest.
He moved toward his house. "Come sit down my
house," he invited.
We learned afterward this was the chief exhibition
sentence-one in which he took a benevolent pride, but
in spite of our noble efforts it was impossible to make it
play a dominating part in our subsequent talk.
"You heap big Pueblo chief?" I ventured. I knew
very well he was, but certain concessions must be made
in order to start the ball rolling.
"Mi hermana ochenta y cinco," he said, figuring
it up on his finders, as an aged, bronze face peered from
behind the corner of the mud wall. My friend and I held
a council of war at this inconsistent reply. By piecing
our vocabularies together we figured out he was informing
us his sister was 85 years old. We failed to see the
relation of this amazing information to my question, but
the old woman seemed to beam on us with such pleasure
afterward we hadn't the heart to insist that he confirm
the big chief rumor. Maybe he wished to talk about ages.
"Old woman?" I said, indicating the squaw, who
had now advanced to the shelter of a post, where she
stood watching all we did in silent approval.
"Mexicano muy mal," he answered, meaning that
greasers didn't make a big hit with him. Maybe I was
mistaken-he didn't wish to talk about ages, after all.
We followed his conversational lead, and with loud enthusiasm
cried: "Si, si," several times.
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