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A Ladino appeared. "Let's see your ring!" he said.
That woman showed it to him. Lord, qui—ckly that
thief da—shed off with it. That ring was stolen from
her. Ooh, that money, Lord! It simply stopped [coming],
it ended. [The king] was about to get it there.
That king [when he was] there in Chiapa was about
to get it. To be killed.
But a dog and a cat spoke. They spoke. "Well,
don't worry. I'll go look for it," said the dog. That
thief continued on. He crossed the Grijalva River.
He swallowed that ring. He swallowed it. He swallowed
it. [It reached] his stomach. Sonofabitch, since
the dog probably knew it already, it seems, as we
say, [and] the cat, as we say. The dog carried the cat
across the Grijalva River. Since the cat probably
didn't know how to paddle in the water. So the cat
was carried across, it seems, as we say.
They found that thief lying down in the deep
forest. He probably felt very tired. He had gone to
sleep.
That cat looked for a mouse. The seat of [the
thief's] pants had a hole gna—wed in them, where
that ring was to come out.
That dog, too, looked for a little lizard. [The
lizard] kept wiggling his tail in [the thief's] nose. He
poked it in—"Hatchoo! Phht! Hachoo! Phht!" [The
lizard] was there a lo—ng time. [The thief] was
probably rolling around from that.
But the ring came out. That cat grabbed it in his
teeth. "Well, I'll take it myself," said that dog.
"Eh, I won't give it to you," said that cat. "I'll
take it myself," said [the cat].
"But don't lose it!" said [the dog].
"No, I won't lose it," said that cat. He brought it
back. He was carried across the Grijalva River.
But that dumb cat dropped it in the middle of the
Grijalva, too.
That awful dog was just bringing him over, getting
that cat back, as we say. He went. That dog
went into the Grijalva to look for it himself. He
spoke to those fishes, too. They searched for it for
him, it seems, as we say. They found it for him. Now
he brought it out. It was that dog that brought it
back now.
"Well, here it is!" he told that king. Ooh, [the king]
was overjoyed now since [he had known] he was
going to be killed. He was delighted now.
He got that ring. He went on to Mexico City, too.
It was probably there in Mexico City that he died. I
certainly think it was there. They say he was going
to be transformed. He was going to be transformed.
He was shut up. I don't know if it was a water jug or
what that he was closed up in, as we say.
REY KOMIS 399
Va7 7un, tal la jun jkaxlan 7un. "Jk'eltik
lavaniyoe!" xi la. Yak' la 7iluk taj 7antz 7une, ke,
j-li—kel la me sli—chbe ech'el taj 7a taj j7elek' 7une,
7elk'anbat taj 7aniyo 7une, ji, taj tak'inetike, ke7re,
solel la ch'ab xi ch'ab xi ech'el, te 7ox la chich' taj, te
7ox la chich' taj rey taj ta Soktome, te xa 7ox chmilat
7un.
Buy, 7i 7isk'opon la j-kot tz'i7 chi7uk la j-kot katu7
7isk'opon 7un. "Bweno, mu k'u xal 7avo7on chba
jsa7," xi la li tz'i7 7une. 7Ijelav la 7ech' la stuch' Nab
taj j7elek'e 7isbik' la taj 7aniyoe, 7isbik' 7isbik' ta
xch'ut, juta, komo sna7oj xa nan ti tz'i7etik ya7el
xkaltik li katu7 xkaltik 7une, 7a li katu7e ja7 la
kuchvan jelavel li tz'i7 ta ta Nabe komo mu nan sna7
smajel li katu7 li vo7 7une, ja7 7i kuchbil 7ijelav
ya7el xkaltik i katu7 7une.
Va7 7un, te xa la pumul 7istaik ta montanya taj
j7elek' 7une, tol xa nan lubel cha7i 7un 7ochem
svayel xa la 7un.
Va7 7un, 7issa7 la j-kot ch'o taj 7a taj katu7 7une,
ja7 la 7ise—tbon lek i xchak svex xkaltik, taj bu
chlok' taj, taj 7aniyo xa 7une.
Va7 7un, 7a taj 7a taj tz'i7 noxtok 7une, 7issa7 la
j-kot 7unen 7okotz 7un, ja7 la sne 7une, ja7 la
sbitzulanbe ta sni7 7un, xxojbe ochel ti "Ja7t'is!" ti
"P'i7!" xi la. Ti "Ja7t'is!" Ti "P'i7!" xi la 7un. Ja—1 la
te 7un, tey xbalet nan xchi7uk xkaltik xkaltik taj taj
x7elan 7une.
Bu, lok' la taj 7a taj 7anio 7une, ja7 la skatz'oj
7ik'ot taj katu7 7une. 7A li "Beno, chkich' ech'el
vo7on," xi la taj tz'i7 7une.
"Je, mu xakak'be," xi la taj katu7 7une. "Chkich'
ech'el vo7on," xi la.
"Pero mu me xach'ay 7un!" xi la.
"7I7i, mu jch'ay," xi la taj 7a taj katu7 7une. Yich'
la tal 7un, skuchoj la jelav ta Nab 7un.
Buy, taj J7a7yel katu7e 7isp'ajes la ta 7o71ol Nab
noxto—k.
76ra, ja7 nox yak' jelavel tal taj 7a taj mu tz'i7
7une, slok'es tal taj katu7 xkaltik 7une, bat 7och la
ssa7 stuk taj tz'i7 ta yut Nab xa 7une, 7isk'opon la taj
choyetik noxtok 7une, 7isa7bat ya7el xkaltik 7une, te
7itabat la tal 7un, ja7 xa yich' lok'el tal, ja7 xa yich'
tal taj tz'i7 7une.
"Bweno, Ii7 me tal 7une!" xut la taj taj rey 7une.
Xmuyubaj xa la bu ti chich' la milel 7une, xmuyubaj
xa la 7un.
Va7 7un, 7i 7ista taj 7anio 7une, bat k'al Mejiko
noxtok 7un, ja7 nan te xa nan cham ta Mejiko nan
7une, te xa jna7 7un bi, ta 7ox la xk'ocholaj xiik, ta
7ox la xk'ocholaj, ta 7ibaj la ta mu jna7 mi j-p'ej k'ib
k'usi 7imakat 7o xkaltik.