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Padiush, Nan Tal, ka taja tikitak kwak ninesik, tikitak kwak nipejki niweya, kwak nimuchiwki takat. Mupanpa naja niwelik nikchiwa muchi tay niwelik tik ne tunal, ninemik wejwey takapiltzin, nechmunekiket pal nitekitik iwanmet. Panu sujsul tunal wan nimuchiwki chulet, kunij teya akaj nechneki kwak nikukuya, maya nuiknuwan, kenhayuk nechnekit pero ajsi keman teya akaj nechneki, nan nuiknuwan, ajsi se tunal ka naja nimiki, kunij nan nusiwaw nan nupilawan nechnekit, yawit nechmimat ken kimimat ne kupajsul tik ne kupajsultal, maya taja, Tunan Tal, ashta kwak timikit titechneki ka kunij tiktapua mumajmajkul pal titechnamiki. Yajika timetzilwitiat padiush, Tunan Tal!

Thank you, Mother Earth, because you saw when I was born, you saw when I began to grow, when I became an adult. Thanks to you I was able to do everything I did today, I had a long youth, I was needed for work. After many days I grew old, then nobody wants me when I am ill, only my brothers, they still love me but the day will come when nobody wants me, not even my brothers, the day will come when I die, then not even my wife and my children will want me, they will throw me out as they throw out rubbish, only you, Mother Earth, want us even when we die, for then you open your arms to receive us. For that I thank you, Mother Earth!

Nemanha nimukwepki nisa ika nimayana. Nimuketzki nitakwa pero te nimumatki yek, yajika nimutekak senpa wan ninakak tik ne tapech. Te niwelik nikisa ika nisutawa, nikukuya wan nechkukua nutzuntekun.

Luego me volví a despertar porque tenía hambre. Me levanté a comer pero no me sentí bien, por eso me acosté otra vez y me quedé en la cama. No pude salir porque estaba cansado, estaba enfermo y me dolía la cabeza.

— Yaja mikik kwak naja nichikitik katka. Kia niknekiskia, pero te niwelik.

— Porque ella murió cuando yo era pequeño. Sí quisiera pero no pude.

Witz ka madrugada ne itzuntekun. Teya su welik musalua.

The head came in the morning; she was no longer able to attach herself.

She strove to do it, but she couldn't; she began to cry, she began to cry.

"But since I put chili on her, she no longer could."

She felt like throwing up, but she couldn't.

So he made a trap. In the trap he was able to catch a girl of about eighteen. But at the moment she fell to the ground, immediately the girl changed into a turkey.