The Coyote Under The Table/El Coyote Debajo De La Mesa - Plot & Excerpts
Their mother had died many years earlier. When the father died, the brothers took his will to have it read and find out what he had left them. They learned that their father had divided the house among them. He did it in the old, traditional way: He left a certain number of vigas—roof beams—to each one. The oldest son was willed six vigas, which meant that however much of the house was under that many beams would belong to him. So he returned home and starting at one wall of the house counted vigas—una, dos, tres, cuatro, cinco, seis. When he got to the sixth beam he built a wall and made a spacious room for himself. The second son received four vigas from his father. He used the wall his older brother had built and then counted—una, dos, tres, cuatro—and built a wall. His room was smaller than his brother’s, but still quite comfortable. The youngest son, whose name was Juan, received just the last two vigas at the end of the house.
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