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His mother -- we mean the queen --, his mother said, "let's go take a walk there in the woods". "Let's go see if you won't cheer up a bit."

Muchijki alegrar ne piltzintzin, ne prinsipe, ma tinakan. Muchijki alegrar.

The little boy was happy, we mean the prince, was happy.

Taja tiu tinaka de ministro. Taja seyuk ministro. Wan taja seyuk ministro.

"You will be a minister, you will be another minister, and you will be yet another minister."

Kitalij ne ichaketaj ne takatzin, ne kinaktij. Yajki ka dentroj ne takatzin.

The man put his jacket down for her; there he left her; the man went inside.

Then it split open in the middle of the night, let's say at midnight; you hear it at midnight.

"Let's skin him", they said.

That was not a deer; it was the meat of their 'bogeyman', of their grandmother's fellow.

Ini ne inakayu tukujkul! Kilwijket.

"That was our bogeyman's flesh", they said.

But the did not tell the truth, but rather arrived asking if by chance he had seen a girl pass near his house the day of the big storm.

Kunij inaket los tres pwes yek (ne) tay tikchiwtuk pero bien naja nikneki shikchiwa nuwan ne jwabor (juabor), shinechilwiti siquiera kan nemi ne plumas? Kan nakak ne ujumiu? Pal niyaw nikita kan nemi.

Then the three said, "well, what you have done is all right, but I want you to do me a favor". "Show me, at least, where the feathers are, where the bones were left, so I can go see where they are".

Then he said, "this is not good". "This is a spook." "But I messed her up because I tied her up."