"No hay." (There is none.)
"Then let us have some maize."
"Tampoco."
"What! no maize? What do you make your tortillas of?"
"We have no tortillas."
"How, then, do you live?"
"We don't live."
"But we must have something for our animals; they can't be allowed to starve."
To which our alguazil made no reply, but looked at us vacantly.
"Do you hear? we must have some sacate or some maize for the animals."