![]() ![]() And last he turned his head to Juana, his wife, who lay beside him on the mat, her blue head shawl over her nose and over her breasts and around the small of her back. ![]() Kino's eyes opened, and he looked first at the lightening square which was the door and then he looked at the hanging box where Coyotito slept. Outside the brush house in the tuna clump, a covey of little birds chittered and flurried with their wings. The roosters had been crowing for some time, and the early pigs were already beginning their ceaseless turning of twigs and bits of wood to see whether anything to eat had been overlooked. The stars still shone and the day had drawn only a pale wash of light in the lower sky to the east. ![]() Chapter 1 - The Pearl Kino awakened in the near dark.
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