There were three boys.

Once they said: "Let's go to the forest."

They went on the sledge, but harnessed ten hares instead of dogs.

They went down the river.

They went and reached a Yakut house.

Comment:
On the Yakut house see (40-29).

They entered it and saw a woman sitting there with a child, her son.

Her husband was not there. He had probably gone to the forest.

The woman fed them and asked: "Will you stay here for the night or go further?"

The boys said: "We shall stay here."

The boys said to the woman: "Give some grass to our dogs."

She went out and saw that instead of the grass she had given them human hair.

The woman entered the house and said to her son: "Look after those boys well, they might escape."

The boys cut off their small fingers, gave them to the child and said: "Don't say anything to your mother, we shall escape."

After that they escaped.

That woman's son was walking around and sucking the small fingers they had cut off.

His mother came and asked: "Where are the boys?"

Her son said: "They left a long time ago."

Then the woman pierced the child with the roasting stick and put him on the fire.

Like a roast.

Comment:
In this sentence the Action Nominal functions as a finite predicate.

After that she followed the footprints of the boys.

The boys had walked on slippery ice on the river.

Comment:
JarqE polZi:s'E is 'slippery ice' literally 'ice slipperiness'. In this construction the semantic attribute is expressed as the head of the noun phrase, while the modified noun rather functions syntactically as the possessor. Such constructions are frequent in Tundra Yukaghir, but quite rare in Kolyma Yukaghir.

When that woman slipped, she fell down and her stomach was torn.

When she fell down and her stomach was torn, a small baby fell out of it.

Apparently she was pregnant.

The woman lifted up that baby and thought: "Perhaps those boys had a small baby. They must have lost it."

She thought, took the baby, went back, and came home.

When she came home, she saw that the child she had pierced with the roasting stick had died.

She took that dead child and laid it on the road on which her husband was about to come.

Her husband came and thought: "She is waiting for me. She wants us to eat our child together."

He entered the house and said to his wife: "Give me our child."

His wife said: "I have killed our child.

Some people came.

I told him: look after them, be on guard.

He didn't look after them. He deceived me and let those boys go.

That is why I killed him."

Then her husband said: "Then let's eat our child."

Comment:
In the 19th century many Yukaghirs died of starvation. Cases of cannibalism were registered as late as the beginning of the 20th century.

She brought her child, and they ate him.

The next day they got up and themselves died.

Comment:
This episode reflects the belief that if you eat the meat of your relative, you will die.