A poor man who lived in a city had no family but his disconsolate wife. In the course of time they had a little child. And as they were so poor there was no one they could ask to be godfathers. Near the city lived a rich man who had many sheep, and they determined to ask this rich man to be the godfather. The rich man consented with much pleasure, and they took the child to the chapel of the same city and baptized him. They named him “Pascual the destitute.” Not long afterwards, in three months, death came and carried away the mother of the child, and the father then decided to go and deliver the orphan to the godfather. And as at the same time the farm foreman arrived with his party, the godfather gave the child to him and said: “See here, man, take this child with you, so that you may rear him with a goat, in order that he may be of some service to you when he is a man.” Good; so they took him to the steward and told him what his name was and that the patron had said that they were to rear him. And then they took him. The steward was a very religious man and whenever he could he went to divine services, but he never took the child. When Pascual was ten years old and was now very useful, the steward ordered the farm foreman to go to the house of the patron, for he did not need him any longer.[168] One day the steward went to mass, and left Pascual alone taking care of the cattle. Pascual began to think, and said to himself: “But what can mass be?” Finally he decided that if he left him alone again he would follow him to find out what mass was. He did so. The steward went away and Pascual followed him. When he lacked only a mile to arrive in the city he saw a man coming in a cart for wood. As the poor little fellow had never seen carts, he said, “Now I know what mass is. This is it.” As soon as the woodman came up he said to him, “May God give you good days, kind sir.” “Good days to you, good boy.” Then Pascual asked him: “Where is mass?” Said the woodman, “Go straight along this road until you come to the plaza, there where it is seen to _coloriar_, and the great house which is in the little square in the middle is the church, and inside of it they say mass.” “And what does one do in mass?” asked Pascual. “Everything that you see done, you do,” the woodman told him. Good; he then went straight to the plaza and soon found the chapel. Outside was an old woman, and he took her shawl from her and covered himself. And he took off his breeches and covered them up. Then he entered the church. And when they all prostrated themselves they saw him without breeches, and some of the mischievous ones pricked him behind. And then Pascual pricked the old woman, who was in front of him, saying: “Prick, prick, for they are pricking behind.”[169]