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to eat the barred one? See which one! Kill it! Then
put aside my share for me. I'll come back to eat. As
for me, I'm going to bring food for us," said the
horrible Spook.
"All right," answered the girl. But she was upset,
stuck in a deep cave. She cooked her meal. She had
pots, bowls, gourds, whatever [she needed] to prepare
her meal. She prepared it. She ate.
But you know [the Spook] just ate meat, not
tortillas, not the things we eat. He just had meat.
They ate. They ate the meat. The Spook arrived.
He had carried off a crate of bread. "Here is the
bread for your meal. Cook your meal! Eat! You have
nothing to worry about. Please don't be sad!" he
said.
But you see, on the third night after her arrival the
girl had a child. A little baby Spook was born. As for
the baby Spook, the woman took sick [because of
him]. The woman told how her child was born, the
little baby Spook, it seems. "Nanita! Nanita!" that's
how the baby Spook talked. Who knows if it grew
up in one night. Hm!
Who knows how the Spook grew up to talk that
way. The girl was frightened by it. "Why does my
child talk like this? Why does it say Nanital My
Lord, but can it be some kind of dirty business?
Could his father be a devil?" she said. For the poor
girl didn't know what it was that had carried her off.
You see when hunters passed by on the trail, "Hoo
heigh, come take me out! Look at me, because I'm
helpless. I'm sick now. I don't want to be here
anymore. The cold is terrible. I'm suffering terribly
from the cold where I am. I hadn't any [warm]
clothes when I was brought here. Who are you?" she
asked. "Is it you, uncle?"
"It's me, niece. What do you want, for I've come
looking for you?" asked the gentleman. "What do
you have to tell me, niece?"
"I came here. I'm sick. I have a child now. It's the
child of the man I came with. Take me out, uncle!"
"Wait, I'll get my lasso, I'll get it. I'll get you out
on condition, niece, that your husband isn't there.
He'd kill us. [We'll get you out on condition] that he
doesn't shoot us," said the [other] Chamulans.
"No uncle, he's gone to bring bread for us to eat.
Don't be afraid, uncle! Don't be afraid! Please take
me away, uncle, because I'm already beginning to
swell here in the frightful cold, uncle. Please may the
Holy Virgin enter thy beautiful heart, uncle. Take
me away!"
"Grab the lasso, tie it around your waist! Grab the
end of it!" he told her. He threw his lasso down [to
TONIK NIBAK
te xanak'bon jrasyon, te chul ve7ikon, 7a li vo7one
chba jsa7 tal jve7eltik," xi la ti mu j7ik'ale.
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"7Ey," xi la ti tzeb 7une. Pero yan la sba ti yo7on
7une, tik'il la ta natil ch'en 7un, span la ti sve7ele, 7o
la ti sp'ine, 7o la ti spulatue, 7o la ti sboche, ti
k'utikuk 7ismeltzan 7o ti sve7ele, 7ismeltzan la 7un,
ve7 la 7un.
K'usi 7un, naka la bek'et ta sti7 7un, mu7yuk la ti
vaje, mu7yuk la ti k'u chalajes ta j-mek yu7un 7une,
ja7 no la ti bek'et 7oy 7une.
Va7i 7un, 7isti7ik la ti 7isti7ik la ti bek'et 7une, k'ot
la taj j7ik'al 7une, jun la kolol te7 kaxlan vaj skuchoj
ech'el 7un. "Li7 me tal skaxlan vaj i Iave7el 7une,
pano mave7el 7un, ve7an me 7un, mu me k'u xal
7avo7on, mu me xati7olaj!" xi la.
Bu xavil 7un, ta yoxibal la 7ak'ubal ti sk'otel 7une,
7oy xa la yol ti tzeb 7une, 7ayan la jun 7unen k'ox
j7ik'al 7un, 7a la ti k'ox j7ik'al 7une, 7i7ipaj la ti 7antz
7une, 7a ti yaloj la ti 7antz 7un ti x7elan 7i7ayan ti
yol, 7unen k'ox j7ik'al ya7el 7une. "Nanita, nanita!"
xi xa la. Chk'opoj ti 7unen j7ik'al 7une, ja7 mu
jna7tik mi ta jun 7ak'ubal i chch'i. Jmm!
Mu jna7tik k'usi xi ch'i ti j7ik'al ya7el taj k'al
x7elan chal 7une, 7a ti tzeb 7une, xi7 7o la 7un. "K'u
van yu7un ti x7elan ta xal ti kol ya7el 7une, k'u
yu7un ti iVanita xi 7une, kajval, pero mi yu7 van yu7
van k'usi yabtel mi pukuj van i stote?" xi la. Yu7un
mu sna7 k'usi ti 7ik'ojonuk ech'el ti prove tzeb 7une.
K'u xavil 7un, ja7 to la ti k'alal 7ech' la, 7ech' la
jpaxyaletik ta be 7un. "Ju je, Ia7 7ik'ikon, la! k'elikon,
yu7un batz'i mu xa xu7, 7ipon xa mu xa jk'an Ii7one,
7animal ti sike, 7animal ti chicham ya7el ta sik li
buyone, ch'abal jk'u7 ti 7ik'bilon tal, buch'uoxuk?" xi
la. "Mi vo7ot, jun tot?"
"Vo7on, jun nich'on, k'usi chak'an yu7un me tal
jsa7ot," xi la ti mol 7une. "K'usi chavalon, jun
nich'on?"
"Yu7un Ii7 talemone, yu7un 7ipon 7un, 7oy xa jun
kol, ja7 7oy jun xch'amal i vinik 7ijchi7in tale, 7a li
7ik'on lok'el, jun tot!"
"Malao ta jsa7 ti jriatae, ta jsa7 chajlok'es tal,
kwentan me 7un, jun nich'on, mi muk' bu te tamalal
7une, xismilotik 7un, 7a ti mi mu pistola xak' 7o," xi
la ti kulo7tik 7une.
"Mo7oj a7a, jun tot, batem ssa7 tal kaxlan vaj
ve7ikutik, mu xaxi7, jun tot, mu xaxi7, 7abolajan
lok'eson ech'el, jun tot, yu7un ta xa xlik jsitubel H7 ta
sik ta j-meke, ta xa chicham, ta xa chicham ti ta mu
sike, jun tot, 7abolajan, 7ochuk ti riox jch'ul-me7tik
ta nichimal 7oronone, jun tot, 7ik'on ech'el!"
"Tzako tal li riata chuko tach'ut 7un, ja7 xavikbe i
sbae!" xut la 7un. 7Isjip la yalel ti sriatae, 7ox-p'ej la