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Translated by: Henrik Theiling
Torch:
Jas tjoni jat.  Lu jat kju ljwi tix.  Jat tjaha u kju kel jas nox
`Su te sik je it?'  Jat tjonw `Nox ha `te sik'?  Tjaha sjo te hong
hw tuk xja lit.'  So kel jas it `Te sik je lu tu hil kel ta eti jo
jes.'  King ton set ky sase y tjonw hw tjani.
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Interlinear
Jas tjoni jat.
  The woman cares for the child.
  (`lu' is left out: `Jas lu tjoni jat.')

  Lu jat kju ljwi tix.
  (She) makes the child go into the house.

  Jat tjaha u kju kel jas nox
  The child play and the going (into the house) cause the woman to ask:

  `Su te sik je it?'
  How silly do you speak? (= What silly things are you saying?)

  Jat tjoni `Nox ha `te sik'?
  The child replies `(You) ask (about) `silly (words?)'

  Tjaha sjo te hong hw tuk xja lit.'
  (I've been) playing since (I was) helpless, all tim, until I was big
(=grown-up).

  So kel jas it `Te sik je lu
  So (this) cause the woman to say: `Because (the) silly things you do
  (`because' = `kel' in the next line)

  tu hil kel ta eti jo jes.'
  make misfortune, my mind has changed.

  King ton set ky sase y tjonw hw tjani.
  Like binking, these things happend again and again.
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