Kino stands still, ready to grasp the scorpion, but Coyotito shakes the rope and the scorpion falls on him. Kino thinks of the Song of Evil, the music of the enemy, as the Song of the Family cries plaintively. A scorpion moves slowly down the rope supporting the box. Kino sees a movement near the hanging box where Coyotito sleeps. Kino looks at them and thinks that "this is safety, this is warmth, this is the Whole." Juana sings softly to Coyotito part of the family song. Kino's ancestors had been great makers of songs, and everything they saw or thought had become a song. Kino thinks of the Song of the Family, a traditional song of his ancestors, as the dawn comes and Juana begins to prepare breakfast. He then watches his wife, Juana, who has also awakened and rests peacefully. Kino awakes and watches the hanging box where his infant son, Coyotito, sleeps.
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