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Since he was his only one, the king loved him, he really loved him.

"My boys are going to come soon, they're going to play."

The three boys brought some little fish, and the other brought a nest of the mareño bird.

The old man told her, "look, he's happy to see the little birds".

There, over there they looked for some fish and the other one for a bird's nest.

He threw away his golden shoes; his mother picked them up.

"We're going now", said the old man; "you go too, but don't forget, come anytime with your son; here are his friends to play with".

"Now", he said, "I am the king, look".

He asked for advice and it was given to him, they gave him advice.

He was seeing what his wife was doing.

Yajki kitajtani seyuk konsejoj. Yajki ka tiupan chan ne palej, ma kimaka ne konsejoj ken kichiwaskia.

He went to ask for more advice; he went to the church, to the priest's. He should advise him how he should do it.

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.

"Now the priest told me that if I have a farm that I should go with her that she eat the red custard apples that are ripe, and then I should hit her with the hard ones in order to kill her."

The tree grew and it had a fruit, a gourd.

The iron-toothed-old-woman sensed it; she came to go see it.

Kitalij ka nepa. Pak ka tik (sic) tzinkal kitalij.

She put it over there, in the corner of the house she placed it.

Kitalij ka nepa. Pak ka tik (sic) tzinkal kitalij.

She put it over there, in the corner of the house she placed it.

Yajki kita ne lamajtzin. Sel pipiltzitzin ne iishyu ne tekumat; sel pipiltzitzin.

The old woman went to see; the seeds of the gourd were just little boys, they were just little boys.

Nanita, nanita, nanita! Kilwiat inlama. Queremos hamaquita, nanita! Kilwiat tik kastiaj.

"Gramma, gramma, gramma" they said to their grandmother, "we want little hammocks, gramma", they said to her in Spanish.

Nanita, nanita, nanita! Kilwiat inlama. Queremos hamaquita, nanita! Kilwiat tik kastiaj.

"Gramma, gramma, gramma" they said to their grandmother, "we want little hammocks, gramma", they said to her in Spanish.

Pejki ne inlama kiwijwilanij ne ajamakitas, wan tami. Ajka puchut, ajka puchut, ajka puchut, yajki sepa ne puchut ka ajku.

Their grandmother began to hang the hammocks. Afterwards, "up silk-cotton tree, up tree up, tree"; the silk-cotton tree went back up.

Kilwiat ne inlama: Nanita, musta tiyut tiawit titapewiat. Kilwiat: Shakan, nuishwiuwan! Kilwia.

They said to their grandmother, "gramma, tomorrow we are going to go hunt", they tell her. "Go ahead, my grandchildren", she said.

But as the Nanahuatzin was there, the youngest child, he saw what their grandmother was doing.

Ay nanita! Kilwiat. Nanita, tenemos hambre! Kilwiat.

"Oh gramma", they said, "gramma, we're hungry" they tell her.

Ay nanita! Kilwiat. Nanita, tenemos hambre! Kilwiat.

"Oh gramma", they said, "gramma, we're hungry" they tell her.

Yuwan kichiwat ne sanjo. Yuwan kitajtamejchiwat ne witzkuyul pal ne naka, ne naka yu miki.

"Go make a trench; go sharpen güiscoyols (thorny palms) so he'll stay there, stay there, he's going to die."

Shikida nanita!, kilwiat. Talikat masat, wan sanka.

"Look, gramma", they said to her, "we brought a deer", and it was a lie.

"Well yes, yes, my children, I'm going to cook it, we're going to eat."

Ay nanita! Me duele la cabeza, yu estoy rendido, kilwiat tik kastiaj.

"Oh gramma, my head aches, I'm exhausted", they say in Spanish.

Yajki kitantia ne itan. Nepa ten kebrada kitantia ne itan pal kikwa ne piltzitzin.

She went to sharpen her teeth, there by the edge of the canyon she sharpened her teeth so she could eat the little boy.

Yajki kitantia ne itan. Nepa ten kebrada kitantia ne itan pal kikwa ne piltzitzin.

She went to sharpen her teeth, there by the edge of the canyon she sharpened her teeth so she could eat the little boy.

Kilwia ne kutalajtzin ne seyuk, tik kastiaj kilwia: Mira tenguerechol, kilwia. Anda, ve que hace mi nanita, kilwia tik kastiaj.

The other said to the lizard, "look lizard", in Spanish he said, "go see what my gramma is doing", he said in Spanish.

He went by and saw that she was sharpening her teeth, she was sharpening her teeth.

Nikan nakak ne tejitaj. Kiajsi se pedasoj tejaj. Kitzuntapan.

"The piece of tile stuck here (pointing to the back of the neck); she found a piece of tile and she busted my head."

"OK, but my grandmother is going to see what's going to happen."

Later in the evening she was coming with her wash.

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 they picked up the bones, made a pile, and asked for a trough and a lot of water and a spool of thread, and they throw it into the air.

Soon it thrundered. When it thundered he saw that it just turned around. In the turn that it made it raised and disappeared.

Actually, they took the girl because at the moment the man saw that they tried this, he saw perfectly (well) that a beautiful girl came out of the bones and feathers.

That's what my grandfather and grandmother told me, and big storms always come, but we never saw if one came to fall. So, today I am telling this to my friend so he can take this story with him as a remembrance.

He came there to the door, stood in the middle of the door, and said, "mother, father, come out, I'm hungry, I want to eat".

His mother brought four more big buns. He put them in his bag and left.

As for me, if I don't work, I don't eat.

He saw clearly that the woman was coming but at that time he recognized her, (thinking that) he saw a woman named Leonarda.

Kan kilpij, kilwia: Bueno, an tiawit ka muchan. Tiawit tikitat su cierto kaj taja tiLionaj!

When he tied her, he said, "OK, now let's go to your house to see if it's true that you are Leonarda".

"OK, let's go see that I will enter my house."

Kwikak ne siwat ichan neyuk siwat itukay Lionaj. Wan Lionaj kichiwtuk sentir sujsul sesek, yajika muketztuk peyna bien tayua; kitatia tit pal panu isesek.

He took the woman to the house of the other woman named Leonarda and (this) Leonarda had been very cold. So she had gotten up late at night to light the fire to get over being cold.

"On the sly I tied her up with my belt and I'm bringing her here to see if it's true that it's not you."

He turned around to look her in the face and he saw her large eyes, not like people's eyes.

Kan mukuminki tik ne posaj, ne kishpuluj; teya kitak. Ne puliwik ne siwat.

When she threw herself into the pool there he lost (sight of) her and couldn't see her any longer; there the woman disappeared.

Once my son was terrified when he was going to frighten off grackels there in the cornfield. So he was frightened; he says he saw the sipitillo.