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8) Here comes Whiskey now, with Al Cole and
Lee Core. All 3 are drunk. Whiskey demands
that Dolores feed them dinner. She answers
that there is nothing but plain tortillas. He gets
angry. He shouts that she is a useless wife
because she cannot prepare a decent dinner
9) Dolores shouts
back. “That’s
because you already
sold the maize crop
and wasted all the
money on drink!
How can I feed you if
you don’t provide the
food?” Whiskey hits
her. She screams and
the children begin to cry.
10) At this moment,
there is a knock on the
door. It is Whiskey’s
mother. She has heard
the crying and come
to see what it is all
about.
11) While Dolores and the children keep
sobbing, the grandmother pleads with her son
to stop drinking. “Can’t you see the suffering
you cause your wife and children?” Whiskey
turns his back on her. He and his buddies begin
to sing a drunken song.
12) The grandmother
sends the older
daughter to tell
the mayor that
Whiskey has
beaten his wife
and that the
police should
come to put the
drunkards out of
the house.