Audilio Miranda, 1970
Item — Box: 2, CD: 183
Scope and Contents
Joe Davis, b. 1902, Albuquerque, NM. 1. Don Cacahuate (Part II); 2. Don Cacahuate (anecdote, tired, hungry, he comes home from supper, wife Dona Cebolla is warming his food on some part of her body); 3. Don Cacahuate (anecdote, at night he sees lights on the highway, thinks they are motorcycles, turns out to be semi truck); 4. El espanol y el mejicano (anecdote, a Mexican and Spaniard going up a hill in a cart loaded with firewood, Spaniard asks Mexican to put a rock under the rear wheels, reply of the Mexicano); 5. El borreguero (anecdote, the shepherder, his wife and her open billing account at the grocery store, she ran up a large bill and had affair with the store owner, women, marriage); 6. Los tres hermanos (folk tale, of three sons, their father died, one brother puts ten thousand pesos into his coffin, other writes a check for twenty thousand pesos and takes the cash as change, muerte, death); 7. El hijo educado (anecdote, father makes a new room for his college son to study in, lumber starts to warp, son calculates how long before roof will cave in, children, school, education); 8. El compadre sordo (anecdote, deaf man trying to converse with his friend, what friend says and his reply, humor); Don Bernabel (folk tale, in camp in dark of night, he saddles a bear instead of his mule); 10. Los astronomos (folk tale, slightly different version of the story of the mule predicting the weather better than the meteorologists).
Dates
- 1970
Language of Materials
From the Collection:
English, Spanish
Access Restrictions
The collection is open for research.
Extent
From the Collection: 13 boxes (12.25 cu. ft.)
Creator
- From the Collection: Cobos, Rubén (Person)
Repository Details
Part of the UNM Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections Repository
Contact:
University of New Mexico Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections
University Libraries, MSC05 3020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131
505-277-6451
cswrref@unm.edu
University of New Mexico Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections
University Libraries, MSC05 3020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131
505-277-6451
cswrref@unm.edu