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said. "I'll give you a carriage. I'll give you fine
clothes. I'll give you a pair of shoes. Go on, go
dance! Dance with whomever you wish to dance!" it
said.
"Fine!" she said. She went. Eh, the poor girl didn't
even finish listening to [the sash]. She went. She
arrived at the place where her little car was suddenly
standing. At the door, like your car. It was suddenly
standing there. She stepped down.
She was seen by ... I don't know if it was the
king's wife. I don't know who it was. Oh, "Step right
ahead, Miss!" they said, since you see she arrived as a
Ladina. "Step right ahead, come in!" they said. She
was seated, of course. Eh, the prince directed his
way towards the girl who had arrived.
"Where does the beautiful girl come from?" he
asked. "I'll certainly dance with her!" he said. He
went to dance with the girl. "Dance!" Eh, he didn't
dance any numbers with anyone else during the
fiesta. He just danced with her alone, not with any
other girl, for she herself was the most beautiful girl.
But it was Mary Cinderella, the stupid girl, the
orphan.
He only danced with her.
When the party was over they were saying good
night to the host. "I'm going now. It's very late now.
My maid, it seems, is at home. The little orphan is
there alone. She surely is nodding away now. She
sleeps too much," said the mistress.
"Oh, all right, then, go along!" he said. That girl
overheard that. Then she left on the ru—n! She sli—
pped into her carriage and le—ft hurriedly. But one
of her shoes fell off and was left behind. Her shoe
that fell off was a little metal shoe.
The king, [I mean] the prince—"Well, whoever's
foot fits this shoe," he said, "that [person] I'll
marry," he said.
"But who does it fit? Who has a shoe like this?
There isn't anyone here with such a shoe." The shoe
was nothing less than a charm.
"There is no one with a shoe like this. There is
nobody. I will marry the person whose foot it fits,"
he said. He went e—very where where that girl
might be, to every house. In one house after another
there was no one whose foot fit it.
"Well, we'll see! Since I'm to marry the prince I'll
slice off [part of] my foot," said that girl's mistress.
[Mary] said no—thing. She hu—ddled there by herself.
She didn't make a sound.
"Come here!" the girls were told. Their feet didn't
fit. The poor maid was summoned. "Come here,
Mary!" they said. "Haven't you any other daughters?"
[the mistress] was asked finally.
"No, I haven't any more daughters," she said.
"But your maid is in the kitchen," he said, as if he
knew.
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la. "Chakak'be j-kotuk 7akaruaje, chakak'be 7a li
7ak'u7 lek, chakak'be junuk par 7asapato, batan ba
7ak'otajan ti buch'u sk an 7avo7on xa7ak'otaj
7achi7uke!" xi la.
"Bweno!" xi la. Bat, jee7, mi ja7uk laj ya7i ti prove
tzebe, chbat la, 7ik'ot la ti yo7 buy kot xi la ti yunen
karoe, ta ti7 na k'u cha7al lakaroe 7une, kot xi la 7un,
yal la 7un.
Va7i 7un, 7i7ile la yu7un ti 7a li mu jna7 mi yajnil
rey, mu jna7 k'usi. 7Aj, "Paste adelante senyorita!" xi
la bu ti jxinulan k'otel to. "Paste adelante senyorita,
Ia7!" xi la. Chotanat la 7a, 7ej, 7a la ti prinsipe spas la
dirijir ti ta tzeb 7ik'ot 7une.
"Bu tal li tzeb batz'i leklek sba?" xi la.
"Chi7ak'otaj jchi7uk i vo7on a7a!" xi la. K'ot la
7ak'otajuk xchi7uk ti tzeb 7une. "Ak'otajan!" 7Ej,
mu xa la bu pyesail ti k'al 7oy ti k'ine, ja7 no la stuk
xchi7uk ch7ak'otaj, mu xa bu yan tzeb, yu7un la ja7
no 7ox stuk ti tzeb mas leklek sba 7une, pero Maria
Senisyenta, pero sonso tzeb, me7on.
Bweno, stuk no 7ox 7i7ak'otaj.
Va7i 7un, 7a li ta xa la spas sba ta spas despedir
xchi7uk ti yajval k'in ti 7a li k'alal chlaj xa ti k'in
7une. "Chibat xa 7un, nax xa 7ak'ubal yu7un ja7 ti
jkriara ya7el te ta jna ti werfanita tee, stuk ta xa
xnikav bi, toj tol xvay," xi la ti 7ajvalil.
"7Aj yu7un yech che7e, batan!" xi la. Ya7yoj la taj
tzeb yech 7une, ja7 7o la me lo—k' ta 7anil sti—k' sba
taj ta skaruaje, ba—t ta 7anil, k'usi, p'aj la komel jun
ssapato, 7a ti ssapato 7ip'aj komel 7une, 7unin tak'in
la ti sapatoil.
Bweno, 7a la ti rey, 7a ti prinsipe 7une —"Bweno ti
buch'u sbelin yok i sapatoil Ii7i," xi la 7un, "Taj ja7
ta xinupun jchi7uk," xi la.
Va7i 7un, "Pero buch'u tzbelin, buch'u yech
ssapato muk' buch'u 7oy ssapato H7 toe." Nada
menos 7enkantado ti k'usi ti sapatoil 7une.
Va7i 7un, "Muk' buch'u yech 7a li ssapato, muk'
buch'u 7a li ti buch'u sbelin yoke, yu7un ja7 chkik',"
xi la. Bat la ta sko—tol ti balamil ti yo7 buy ya7el taj
tzeb 7un taje, skotol la na ta ju-jun na ju-jun na, mu
la buch'u sbelin yok.
"Bweno, ta xk'eltik kon tal ke ta xinupun jchi7uk i
prinsipe, ta jsep' i koke," xi la taj yajval taj tzeb 7une.
Mu la k'u xa—1, taj stuk 7une, te la tzunu—1 mu
xbak'.
Va7i 7un, 7a li "La7ik!" x7utat la ti tzebetike. Mu
la bu sbelin yok, take ta 7ik'el ti 7a li prove kiarail.
"La7, Maria!" xi la. 7A li "Mi mu xa bu yan 7atzeb?"
x7utat la ma ti.
"7I7i, mu7yuk xa jtzeb," xi la.
"Pero 7akriara te ta kusina," xi, k'u cha7al sna7
7un.