Island of the Blue Dolphins 02 Zia by Scott O'Dell

Author:Scott O'Dell [O'Dell, Scott]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

"The sun is good for the melons," he said, "but not for those who plant them."

Neither Rosa nor I said anything.

"It is hard work for girls," he said. "It is harder work than the looms. Do you not agree?"

"Harder, yes," Rosa said.

"I do not like the idea of girls working in the field," he said.

I knew what the mayordomo was coming to, but I did not show that I knew.

Gito Cruz had come to the Mission two years before. He was the son of a man who was the chief of a small tribe that lived about ten leagues north of the Mission. Gito did much grumbling when he first came to the Mission, I was told, so the fathers made him a mayordomo. He felt this was a position more fitting to the son of a chief.

But Gito still grumbled after he became a mayordomo. I knew from other times that he was getting ready to grumble now.

"They work us hard here at the Mission," he said. He looked at me. His eyes were small but very bright and he had a mustache as thin as a thread, which he plucked carefully every day. "Where do you come from?" he asked me. He had asked me this before.

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