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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."

Ne nemi ne shuretzin. Kilwia: Shikalaki Señora, shikalaki, kilwia.

There there was an old man; he said, "come in, Señora, come in".

He gave her a block of wood to sit on; "sit down", he said.

"Well", the old man said, "your little son is sick, he's sick".

"Yes", she said, "he is sick".

Then the old man said, "your son needs something.

"Wait", he said, "don't go", "wait!".

"Oh, look, mama", said the little boy.

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

He said to his sons, "this is going to be your friend".

He said to his mother, "look, look, I brought a little bird".

"I'm going to be barefooted just like my friends are", he said.

"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".

Then he remembered his friends; he said, "I", he said, "I remember my friends, how we went to walk there on the shores of the lake".

He told the priest that his wife was a witch.

She started to say in magic, "down silk-cotton tree, down tree, down tree, down tree, down tree!"

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!"

Ya les di de comer, pero lambanse los labios! Kilwia, como tik kastiaj kinnutzki. Lambanse los labios, ya comieron!

"I already fed you, but lick your lips", she said, since she spoke to them in Spanish, "lick your lips, you already ate".

Shikuchikama!, kilwia tik nawat. Shikuchikan!

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

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.

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.

"She hit me with a rock", he said.

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".

Kunij yaja kilwia. Tikpia wey pan?

Then he said, "do you have lots of bread?"

He said to the two boys, "you are a steward, but only you. Your brother is smarter; he is a wizard.

This is what he told them.

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".

Kunij, keman ajsik ne takat ke kwika ne siwat ilpijtuk wan isinidor. Kilwia: "Nana Lionaj!"

Then, when the man arrived who brought the woman tied with his belt, he said, "Doña Leonarda".

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

She struggled and said, "let me go!".