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There were three boys. |
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Once they said: "Let's go to the forest." |
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They went on the sledge, but harnessed ten hares instead of dogs. |
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They went down the river. |
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They went and reached a Yakut house. Comment:
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They entered it and saw a woman sitting there with a child, her son. |
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Her husband was not there. He had probably gone to the forest. |
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The woman fed them and asked: "Will you stay here for the night or go further?" |
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The boys said: "We shall stay here." |
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The boys said to the woman: "Give some grass to our dogs." |
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She went out and saw that instead of the grass she had given them human hair. |
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The woman entered the house and said to her son: "Look after those boys well, they might escape." |
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The boys cut off their small fingers, gave them to the child and said: "Don't say anything to your mother, we shall escape." |
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After that they escaped. |
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That woman's son was walking around and sucking the small fingers they had cut off. |
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His mother came and asked: "Where are the boys?" |
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Her son said: "They left a long time ago." |
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Then the woman pierced the child with the roasting stick and put him on the fire. |
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Like a roast. Comment:
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After that she followed the footprints of the boys. |
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The boys had walked on slippery ice on the river. Comment:
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When that woman slipped, she fell down and her stomach was torn. |
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When she fell down and her stomach was torn, a small baby fell out of it. |
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Apparently she was pregnant. |
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The woman lifted up that baby and thought: "Perhaps those boys had a small baby. They must have lost it." |
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She thought, took the baby, went back, and came home. |
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When she came home, she saw that the child she had pierced with the roasting stick had died. |
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She took that dead child and laid it on the road on which her husband was about to come. |
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Her husband came and thought: "She is waiting for me. She wants us to eat our child together." |
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He entered the house and said to his wife: "Give me our child." |
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His wife said: "I have killed our child. |
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Some people came. |
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I told him: look after them, be on guard. |
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He didn't look after them. He deceived me and let those boys go. |
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That is why I killed him." |
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Then her husband said: "Then let's eat our child." Comment:
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She brought her child, and they ate him. |
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The next day they got up and themselves died. Comment:
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