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Lord, that horrible woman['s head] came—came
and settled here on that man's shoulder. That man
had two heads. "Sonofabitch!" said that man. But
what did it do now? It hardly came off! It wouldn't
come off now. It stuck on there now for good, as we
say. "Well, if you want to, wife, let's go get some
fruit," he told her.
"Let's go!" said that woman, since she was stuck
on there now, you see. But as for that bottom part of
her, then, it probably was left lying there. They
probably buried it, of course!
They went. They looked for fruit. It was from the
pine trees, as we say, that have yellow pine cones, as
we say. Or their disease [pine rust], as we call it.
That was it. "Well, see here, wife, stay here a
minute. I'll go get some fruit for us to eat," he said.
He told her.
"All right," she said. That woman['s head] came
off. And that head of hers sat on the ground.
He climbed. That man climbed up. He climbed
way up. He climbed to the top of the pine. "Well,
you bitch of a woman, hell, do you think I'm coming
down? Hell, see for yourself where you'll die!" he
told that wife of his. Ooh, she tried to bounce up.
She tried to bounce up, but she couldn't reach him.
She had the strength to reach halfway up the pine
tree. But then she came crashing down. Then she
came crashing down. She was lying there. The
fucker probably got worn out. She was lying there
for a minute.
But then a deer appeared. Now that deer came
walking along.
It passed by next to where she was lying. Lord, it
approached. She bounced up on it. She landed sitting
on its shoulder, too. Stuck on to it, she went off,
indeed! Ooh, as for the deer, hell, it simply sprinted
off since it had a burden now, you see. The deer
threw itself off a cliff somewhere. That's how [the
deer and the woman] were finished. That's how they
died. That's how that story went, indeed! Just a few
words.
See also T12, T81, T82, and their notes, T47 and T60.
He had a mother. "Mother!" he said to her.
"What?" she asked.
"I really long to marry that princess." [The king]
already had a wife. That princess was the king's
wife. The king's wife. "I really long to marry her,"
he said.
REY KOMIS 373
How Toenails Won a Bride
T174
Kere, bu, taj pentejo 7antz 7une tal la ti tal
xchotan sba Ii7 ta snekeb taj vinik 7une, pas ta
cha7-p'ej sjol taj vinik 7une. "Jijo la chingada!" xi la
taj vinik 7une. Pero k'u xa tzpas yu7 van chtuch'
lok'el yu7n xa mu xtuch' lok'el te xa nap'i 7o xkaltik.
"Bweno pwes, mi xak'an, 7antz, ba jsa7tik Io7bol,"
xut la 7un.
"Battik!" xi la taj taj 7antz komo te xa nap'al
chava7i 7une yan taj xchake che7e, kere, te banal nan
kom smukbeik nan bi 7a!
Bweno, batik la 7un ssa7ik la Io7bol 7un, ja7 li toj
xkaltik 7a li 7oy k'onik stuluk'al xkaltik mi xchamel
k'usi xkalbetike, ja7 la 7un. "Bweno, k'el avil, 7antz,
koman to j-likel 7uk 7un chba jsa7 tal li Io7bol jlo7tik
7une," xi. Xut la 7un.
"Stak\" xi la 7un. 7Istuch' la sba lok'el taj 7antz
7une 7i p'ejel kom ta balamil taj sjol 7une.
Bweno, muy muy ech'el taj vinike muy la ech'el ta
j-mek muy k'al ni7 toj. "Bweno, puta 7antz, kavron,
mi chaval chiyal tal 7une 7il avil bu pak'al xalaj 7un,
kavron!" xut la taj yajnil 7une. Ji, ya7uk la p'ituk
muyel ya7uk la p'ituk muyel pero mu la sta, ta la
stabe yipal 7o71ol toj la 7un pero te la st'uslajet chyal
7un, te la pumul, lub nan i jkobele te la pumul j-likel
7un.
Buy, ja7 7o la tal j-kot te7tikil chij 7un xkotkon xa
la tal taj te7tikil chij 7une.
Va7i 7un, te la 7ech' ta stz'el taj bu pumule, ke, tal
la ti sp'itue te la chotol 7ik'ot ta snekeb noxtok,
nap'al la bat 7o 7un bi, ji, ti te7tikil chije, kavron,
solel slev xa la ech'el komo 7o xa yikatz chava7i
ech'el to, ja7 ti bu sjip sba ta ch'en ti te7tikil chij
7une te nel 7o yech 7un, te laj 7o yech 7un, ja7 yech
kwento yech chak taj a7a, jay-p'el nox.
7O la sme7. "Me7!" xut la.
"K'usi?" xi la.
"Batz'i chak kik' ta j-mek i prinsesa Ie7e." Komo
7o xa la yajnil taj 7une, yajnil rey la taj prinsesa 7une
yajnil rey. "Batz'i chak kik' ta j-mek," xi la 7un.