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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.

"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".

That's how far our story goes.

Laj! Musaluj nikan pak ne masat.

"Lah" -- it stuck here on the deer (on its neck).

"Don't eat my husband, don't eat my husband!", that's what she said to them.

Mikik. Kan ne miktuk, waltakatki se tekumat, waltakatki se tekumat.

She died; where she had died a groud tree sprouted.

She went. She knew where her daughter was.

Aj, ne nusiwapiltzin! Nikan timiktuk, pero nikan nemi ne nuchichiwal. Nikan yu kisa ne muchichiwal amor!

"Oh, my daughter, you have died here, but here is my gourd, your gourd of love is coming to come up here."

Aj, ne nusiwapiltzin! Nikan timiktuk, pero nikan nemi ne nuchichiwal. Nikan yu kisa ne muchichiwal amor!

"Oh, my daughter, you have died here, but here is my gourd, your gourd of love is coming to come up here."

"Oh, my daughter, here is your gourd."

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

"Wait a bit; I'm going to do it."

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.

Kinnutzki ne inlama. Kilwia: Shisakan! Nemia ne takwal! Shisakan, nupilawantzitzin, shisakan! Nemia ne takwal!

Their grandmother spoke to them; she said, "wake up, the food is ready, wake up my children, wake up, the food is ready!"

Kinnutzki ne inlama. Kilwia: Shisakan! Nemia ne takwal! Shisakan, nupilawantzitzin, shisakan! Nemia ne takwal!

Their grandmother spoke to them; she said, "wake up, the food is ready, wake up my children, wake up, the food is ready!"

Kinilwia ne Nanawatzin, se chimpe: Shinechwikakan ne idamuj nulama, yaja ja kikwa ne takwal. Pwes shinechwikakan.

The Nanahuatzin, the youngest child, said to them, "take me; my grandmother's fellow, he's the one who eats the food; so take me!".

Kinilwia ne Nanawatzin, se chimpe: Shinechwikakan ne idamuj nulama, yaja ja kikwa ne takwal. Pwes shinechwikakan.

The Nanahuatzin, the youngest child, said to them, "take me; my grandmother's fellow, he's the one who eats the food; so take me!".

"I'm going to show you where he goes."

Nikan shikchiwakan ne sanjoj. Man shiktzujtzuntamejtikan ne witzkuyul, wan ne shiktalpachukan.

"Make the trench here, but sharpen the güiscoyols and put them in the ground."

Nikan shikchiwakan ne sanjoj. Man shiktzujtzuntamejtikan ne witzkuyul, wan ne shiktalpachukan.

"Make the trench here, but sharpen the güiscoyols and put them in the ground."

Shikuchikama!, kilwia tik nawat. Shikuchikan!

"Sleep now!", she said in Pipil, "go to sleep!".

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."

Ashan shikitzkikan tulama. Ma kipanulti ne iashish!

"Now grab our grandmother; let her pass her piss."

When they say there is going to be a big storm, so they say, in the wind that comes by there come men and women in the wind such that they come to carry off ears of corn for them to eat. Thus the milpas were left broken, quite flattened, with many ears of corn disfigured with a look like pustules. Those were the ears of corn that the Chilteopaners took, according to my grandfather and my grandmother.

On the third day after the storm had passed and they had eaten the turkey, there came two men and a woman to look for it. They arrived at the house of the man who had caught it because they more or less already knew who had caught it.

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".

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".

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".

The three came to where the feathers and bones were that the dog had not eaten.

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

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.

So when he was hungry, he said to himself, "finally I know where my father is, where my mother is".

He said, "where have you gone, 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".

Nikan ninemi, señor. Tay tikneki?

"Here I am, señor, what do you want?"

"I said, 'Doña Leonarda, where are you going?'."

In their struggle, it's not clear what she did to make the man loosened her. When it was loosened, she was able to get untied; she took off running.

When the woman got away and took off running, he regretted it.

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.