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he told her. He left now. He left now with a wife.
They went to look for it. They went to get it. The
cane liquor arrived. Everything they needed arrived.
It arrived. It came in. "Here it is," he said.
"Fine!" said [the old man]. He gathered together
his relatives. They came in to drink the cane liquor.
They got drunk.
The old man, that girl's father, went to fix their
sleeping place for them. There was a little room. He
covered the door with [a piece of] muslin. Yes!
He fixed it. He spread out their straw mat in case
they got drunk. "Here are your sleeping quarters.
You can go sleep there," said the old man. They got
drunk. They got drunk.
At daybreak, "Well, did you rest?" he asked his
son-in-law, it seems.
"I rested."
"Isn't there a little left over anywhere? Has the
little bit of cane liquor been finished? I feel so sick,"
said the old man.
"There still is some," he said. "There still is this!
Maybe there's still two or three liters here," he said.
"Get it then! I'll drink a little. Come on, let's drink,
since it's almost light already. It will fix up [my
stomach]. But I feel so sick," said [the girl's father].
They drank.
They went back to sleep for a little while longer,
Dawn came. "Well, that's all, then." Since the old
man had lots of fruit .... He just had bananas.
There were just bananas where he had planted them,
it seems. "Well, go look at the fruit! Go, if you've
finished eating. Go on, go together, the two of you.
Go see, because they will be yours. When I die all
the fruit will be yours, because now you will stay
here if I die," said the old man. "It's you who will
get the women together, then. Make them grow,
work, grow the fruit properly, lots of fruit," he said.
They just looked at all the bananas. Ohh, they ate
lots of fruit. They carried back the fruit. There was
fruit. They found ripe ones already.
All Souls' Day had almost arrived. "Well, will
you let me take my wife along, since my father is
dead?" he asked. "My father is dead. I'm going to
wait for him. I'm going to wait for him on All Souls'
Day. Then I'll come back when All Souls' Day has
passed," he said.
"Go on! Take some along. Get some if you [want
to] get some to take. Get some fruit to take. Carry
your fruit with you. Carry along as much fruit as
you want to take. It's to put on top of your late
father's table, it seems," he was told.
"All right, then, if you give me permission. If you
let me [take] my wife."
"Take her, then, go on!" he said. [The man]
arrived home.
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la. Bat xa, 7oy xa yajnil 7ibat, ba ssa7, ba ssa7 tal 7un,
yul tal li tragoe, yul tal ti k'usi chtun yu7un 7une, yul
la tal 7un, yul la. "Li7 me 7une," xi la.
"Bweno!" xi. Stzob la schi7iltak, 7ochik ta yuch'el
trago 7un, yakubik 7un.
Bweno, 7a li mol 7une, 7a li stot taj tzeb 7une, ba
la smeltzanbe svayeb 7un, 7oy la te jun 7unen 7unen
7unen kwarto 7un, smak la ta manta li ti7 na 7une. Ji7
la!
Smeltzan sk'ibe svayeb ti mi la yakubik 7une. "Li7
me lavayebik 7une te me xba vayanik," xi la ti mol
7une. Yakub la 7un, yakub 7un.
Va7i 7un, sakub 7osil, "Bweno, mi 7akux?" xut la
li sni7 ya7el 7un.
"7Ijkux."
"Mi mu xa buy yunen sovra mi lajem ti 7a ti 7unin
poxe, taj toj 7ipon chka7i," xi la ti mol 7une.
"7Oy to," xi. "7Oy to Ii7e, 7oy to nan Ii7 chib
7oxibuk litro," xi la 7un.
"Sa7ik tal che7e, ta xkuch' j-tz'ujuk, Ia7 kuch'tik,
ja7 li po7ot xa sakube te tzmeltzaj 7o lek, pero toj
7ipon chka7i," xi la 7un. 7Iyuch'ik la 7un.
Bweno, cha7-vay la 7otro j-likel 7un, sakub la 7osil
7un. "Bweno, mu k'usi 7un che7e." Komo 7oy la 7ep
slo7bol li mol 7une, 7oy naka puro platano labal 7oy
slo7bol te ta bu stz'unoj ya7ele. "Bweno ba k'elik li
Io7bole, batanik mi laj ve7anike, batanik ba chi7in
abaik 7acha7-va7alik, ba k'elik 7un, yu7un xa
7avu7unik, ti mi lichame, vo7ot 7avu7un skotol
Io7bol xa, komo yu7un xa yu7un xa li chakom H7 H7
toe ti mi lichame," xi la ti mol 7une. "Vo7ot chatzob
li 7antzetike che7e, 7ak'bo smeltzan 7abtejan yu7un
chameltzan lek li Io7bole, 7ep Io7bol ta j-mek," xi.
Naka la platano li ta sk'elik 7une, jii, lek la slo7ik
Io7bol, skuch tal Io7bol 7oy Io7bol taj 7oy xa
tok'onik staik 7un.
Va7i 7un, 7a li va7i 7un, 7ista ta la 7ora po7ot xa
7a li k'in Santo 7un. "Bweno, 7a li mi chavak'bon
ech'el 7a li kajnile, komo 7oy chamem jtot?" xi la
7un. "Chamem jtote, ba jmala, ba jmala li k'in Santo
7une, ja7 to chisut tal mi 7ech' i k'in Santoe," xi la.
"Batan 7ich'o ech'el me sa7o mi chasa7ik ech'el,
sa7ik ech'el Io7bol kucho ech'el 7alo7bol kucho
ech'el k'u yepal Io7bol chavich' ech'el 7une, ja7 li
chavak'be chavak'be ta sba smexa ti 7anima ya7el
latote," xut la.
"Teyuk che7e, mi chavak'bon ech'el permiso
chavak'bon kajnil."
"7Ik'o che7e, batan!" xi. K'ot la ta na 7un.