When we were small we were twelve children.

We lived in poverty.

Comment:
The syntactic function of the word b'ednIjd'Ek is unclear.

When we lived, the rich people from another house tortured my mother, forcing her to make fish nets and shoes.

Comment:
The word numO is uninflected.

They said: "We will give you one plate or mug of food for the work you have done, if you finish the net and the shoes and give them to us."

One Sunday we said to our mother: "Mother, let's go.

Let's go to the rich people.

Perhaps they will give us some milk, food, fish or meat."

That's what happened.

So we went.

We went, but no!

We sat almost two hours talking and chatting with them.

No! They only gave us tea without anything else, one mug.

That's what happened.

So we left.

Our father lay in bed ill with rheumatism in his legs and arms.

Who would hunt for us?

We did not have a person who could hunt.

Comment:
The word mitl'E is here pronounced as mi:l'E.

That's what happened.

Then our mother said: "What can you do?

If nothing, nothing. There is nothing."

She brought a damp stick, a chock of wood.

She took the bark from it.

She took the bark from it.

She took the top of the white bark from it.

She took off that bark. There is tree with bark that makes its trunk white.

She scraped it with a knife.

She sat like that and scraped it.

Comment:
This sentence was accompanied by gestures.

When she scraped it, the bark became like that.

When you turn it, it becomes like lard.

Comment:
The word titime: is here pronounced as time:.

She cut it.

She cut it and made gruel out of it.

She made gruel.

What sort of gruel could it be?

It was simply water.

At that terrible time she fed it to us.

There was nothing then.

No bread, no butter, no tea, there was nothing.

Only water.

That's how it was.

The children cried, but she said: "Don't cry".

She sat us down on the bench, took the smallest child and sat down herself.

Comment:
While pronouncing this sentence, the speaker showed that the mother took the smallest child on her lap. That's what the word ti: 'here' refers to. Urun is a plank bed.

She said: "Children, don't cry!"

She said: "Now we go to the rich people, but don't envy them."

She said: "The war will come.

Comment:
The war in question is apparently the First World War.

When the war finishes, we will have a good life.

If you don't die before then.

Until then have patience.

Don't cry. We will have a very good life.

If Germany wins, life will be bad. If the Soviet power wins, then we will have a good life.

We will eat butter and flour, we will wear nice clothes, there will be plenty of different clothes.

Comment:
The verb rasnoNo: 'different' is uninflected.

Very many.

There will be all sorts of things.

There will also be shoes to wear.

There will be everything.

So be patient and don't cry.

There won't be any rich people then.

Everybody will be the same.

There won't be any rich people, there won't be any poor people, everybody will be similar."

That's how it was.

She said: "Don't cry."

Then she said: "Who will feed us?

Whether you cry or not, anyway there is nothing.

If there is nothing, where will you see something? Where will you find something?

You better get asleep here, hush!"

That's how it was.