Maria selected her favorite colored pouch
and pulled each of the dolls from it. She lined them up in the
palm of her hand and began speaking to them. "Good night my tiny friends, my family is in trouble and we need your help.
Our fields are dried up, my mother is sick, we have no food or
money, and my mother's cloth was stolen. We need your help little
ones." Maria placed the dolls back in the pouch then placed
them under her pillow. She was able to sleep very soundly that
night, and when she awoke, the dolls were out of the pouch and
all laid out in a circle on the table. "I was certain I put
them in the pouch under my pillow last night," she said to
herself. Wiping the sleep from her eyes, she convinced herself
she must have imagined putting them under her pillow. That morning,
Maria and Diego prepared to go to the market. They put all the
doll pouches into a sooteh (a large wrap that can be used
as a bag or a head covering) and began walking to market. Mother
managed to get out of her hammock and said, "Toosh kah beenesh?"
(Where are you going?) They replied, "To market." While Mother puzzled
over what they would do there, Grandfather wished them good luck.
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