Should occasion require, the host will say: "It is getting late, and you cannot return to your home to-night.

Where are you going to sleep?
There is a good cave over yonder." With this he may indicate where the visitor may remain over night.

He will also tell him where he may find wood for the fire, and he will bring him food; but not unless the weather is very tempestuous will he invite an outsider to sleep in the house.
When at home the Tarahumare keeps regular hours, rising and retiring with the sun.

Having slept on a skin on the floor, rolled up in his blanket, without anything for a pillow except perhaps a stone or a chunk of wood, he sits for a while near the fire, which is kept up most of the year at night in the house or cave.

His wife brings him his breakfast of pinole.