- Kino and Juana awaken at dawn.
- Juana tends to her fire.
- She prepares a simple breakfast of corn cakes.
- She croons a simple ancient song of her people.
- Kino goes out to survey the morning.
- God-like he observes the ants.
- He accepts the homage of his dog.
- Kino eats his breakfast contentedly
- Juana and Kino saw a scorpion moving down the rope which supports the baby’s hammock.
- The Song of Evil rises in his mind almost drowning out the song of Family.
- Juana whispers prayers.
- Kino stealthily approaches the enemy.
- The baby, laughing, shakes the rope.
- The scorpion falls, stinging the baby’s shoulder.
- Kino in rage, destroys the scorpion.
- A horde of neighbours, alarmed by the baby’s screams ran to the hunt
- Juana wants to get the doctor.
- When told that the doctor will not come to a poor home, she decides to take the baby to him.
3. The processions to the doctor’s house.
- Juana carried Coyotito followed by Kino.
- Juana Torres and Apolonia and the neighbours and their children followed
- The newcomers from the outskirts and the four beggars from the front of the church followed too.
- The beggars correctly anticipate the doctor will refuse to treat a pauper’s child.
- With mixed fear and rage, Kino sounds the knocker at the gate.
- The native servant refuses to speak ‘the old language’ choosing to answer Kino in the tongue of the enemy, the alien race to which the doctor belonged.
- The doctor’s bedroom is furnished with fraudulent luxury and reeks of fraudulent piety.
- He is sitting in bed, sipping chocolate and dreaming of his short glorious stay in
- The doctor sends the servant to find out whether Kino can pay for the treatment
- Kino offers his eight misshapen, valueless pearls and was turned away.
- Humiliated, Kino fury explodes in a futile crushing blow of his fist on the gate.
- The crowd tactfully melts away, greatly aware of Kino’s public shame
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