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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.

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.

So he went.

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.

Tik ne witztal yajki. Ustuwetzi. Ran! Mutamuta ne ustut.

Into the thorns it went; it fell in the ravine -- "rann" -- it threw itself into the ravine.

She went. She knew where her daughter was.

And then she left, she went.

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.

So she returned and brought some hammocks.

Yajki kalinh (m) ana ne ipilawantzitzin. Yawi kene tan ne puchut, tan ne puchut.

She went to get her little boys, then she went under the silk-cotton tree, under the silk-cotton tree.

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.

Pwes yajki ne lamajtzin; kaltemultia. Tajtakamet!

Well, the old woman went. She got them down; they were already men.

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.

Voy a ir. Es el tenguereche. Yajki ne tengerechej.

"I'll go", it was the lizard; the lizard went.

Then the man went to show them.

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.