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The story goes like this.

Kapisitu toneo.

Yes.

Kerekeredongao.

In a village lived an old woman.

Pa magnigha lae, / pa daki mapae te pale soma.

An old woman and her three children.

Pa daki mapa zu kova gnuba / ighia gnubagha.

They lived there for a while and their mother got very old.

Ze ota patu patu bua bua / ze ota patu patu bua bua zeva mama ko ka pozogho / kao / daki mapasa isangaghue.

When she was very old, she told her children.

Daki mapasa tulola, ko bua bua ko / zaka teighue ko gnubagha.

She told her children.

Ko gnubagha zaka teighue ma.

If I die, you should go and live with your uncle.

Me / ma aiva ave kia, / meva me kulagha laka bo paleghue tei.

When their mother died, they buried her by themselves near their mother's house.

Tulola, / ze mama ko ave tulola ze kama / zeghajia ota ze mama ko tuvi mane la qilughighue.

When they buried her, they lived there at their mother's home for a while.

Qilughi tulola, / zeva ota ze mama ko magnigha (la) zeva pozogho / patu bua bua bua bua.

They got hungry.

Zeva kobakobaghue.

When they got hungry, they went and find their uncle to live with him.

Kobakoba tulola, / ze boghue ze kulagha zalali teze laka palei tei.

So they found their uncle and found him and their uncle is also married.

Teze bo ze kulagha zalali tulola, / ze bo sodoalighue / zu lo / zeva kulaghae ghoi ae sua.

So they went and told their uncle, we will stay with you here they said.

Tulola bo tulola / ze kulagha laka teighue ma ave na kati naka pale tai ata tei.

Then their uncle said, it's allright.

Teze kulagha na tei daisa patulo.

So they lived with their uncle for a while but their uncle's wife was not good.

Tulola zekulagha laka patu patu bua / ze kulagha lo madakie te oma dai.

When she cooked food, she would give them only a little bit of food in a bowl and when they had eaten it, they were not satiated.

Ma ko samu kuroli tuka ko memere samu pono te popo la lovughue / tuka ze lou tuka ze oma kapughue.

Then it went on like this for a while, and one morning, their uncle went inland.

Tulola, / ghoi tei bua zepo ze kulagha lo ropo tulola lo ka boghue kao.

(He) went and something

Bo / poi

to carve a roko.

Roko sarili ta boghue na.

He went to carve it and his wife cooked food and just a bit of little food.

Sarili ta bo tulola, / lo madaki ko samu kuroli tulola ko ghoi ma memere samu pono.

(She) served it in a bowl and when they ate it, they did not feel full.

Ghoi popo la lovughue teze loughue / tuka ze lou tuka zete ghoma ghoi kaputu.

She would fill up their own child only.

Tulola kova / totova pade gnubae mane lova samue ko lau seghe sua.

So that he would eat and feel full.

Pozogho telo ka lou kapu teizu.

But the others would not.

Lo papaleghae te ghoma.

It went like this for a while (and) the older sister amongst the three siblings said.

Teze bua bua / ko / lo ighia totoagha te toma ngai totoa ko na te tei.

You two stay here so I can go and fish in the big river.

Pe na ata palei tegne bo / ngai jai la / ululai tei.

So she took a bamboo fishing pole and went.

Tulola, / ko ka ghau lau tulola ko ka boghue kama.

She went to the big river and fished.

Bo tulola ko bo ngai / jai la sara tulola ko ka ululaghue.

She fished and she lined up many fish on a string.

Ulula tulola, / ko pa ngai keokeomi laughue kama.

She took a second vine string and came back fishing.

Lau tulola, / ko ghoi bo pa edo sua mili lau tulola ko ghoi ba / ululaghue ghoi.

She fished and lined them up on the string, that was a second string of fish.

Ulula tulola ko ghoi pa / ngai keokeo ghoi laughue pozogho edo sua keokeomie.

She went and took again another vine string and came back fishing again.

Tulola ko ghoi bo tulola, / ko ghoi pa mili bo lau tulola, / ko ghoi ba / ululaghue.

She fished and make a third string of fish.

Ulula tulola ko pa ighiva sua / ighiva sua keokeomi laughue.

She took the fish and went back home.

Ko mi lau tulola ko ka liazaghue magnigha la.

She went and told her sisters: here is the fish you've been crying for.

Bo tulola, / koko totoazalo bo taka teighue ma / pe lo la ngei avetu lo mi ai la tei.

Take it and burn it or cook it and eat.

Ma laulu kiape ka levoghue kia peva / kuroghue ka tei; / kiape ka samughue tei.

They cooked and ate by themselves, they didn't feed their uncle's wife.

Ze ka kuro tulola ze ka samughue ze ghajia / omaze ghoi zeva kulagha lo madaki kumai ghoi.

They ate and had enough and the next day, the small one told her: go and fish again.

Samu kapu tulola, / ghoi izi iva tulola, / kova gnari totoa lo ghoi tei ma / bua ghoi bo ulula ghoi tei.

We wanted very much to eat fish.

Ma aghe kama dai toa mi loughu matalie tei.

She took her bamboo fishing pole and went.

Ko ghoi ko ghau lau tulola boghue ghoi.

She went and fished and also took three vine strings of fish.

Bo tulola, / ko bo ulula tulola, / ko ghoi ma / ighia keokeo migha ghoi kakaughue.

She took it and come back; she came back and asked them: cook it and burn it.

Kau tulola ko ghoi liaza baghue. / Liaza ba tulola, / ko ba taqighue ma / kurolilu zepe levo tei.

So when their uncle came home, the bigger one told him.

Tulola zeva kulagha lo zaba tulola, / ko / ngai ko ka maremareghue.

The bigger one said.

Ma / em- ko ngai koka savulighue ma.

When your wife cooks some food, she never gives us enough food, only a little bit.

Ma nova madaki kova samu kuroli tukagho oma ave / ngai samu te lamevigni soma memere samu pono.

Only a small portion is served in the bowl and we eat that, she said.

Memere pono te popo la lovu tuka ave loughue na tei.

That is allright, the young girl said.

Ma lovua no na daisa patulo ko adaki gnuba ko teighue na.

So the next day she went and went away and did not come back.

Tulola ko izi iva tulola ko ka boghue na; bo tulola ko ka pade oloe boghue omagho kati ghoi liaza ba tai.

She went took some vine and fished and made again a vine string of fish.

Ko bo ulula tulola, / kova / pa mili lau tulola ko bo ululatu lo kova / pa keokeomi ghoi laughue na.

She took another vine string and made another string of fish.

Lau tulola ko ghoi bo edo sua mili lau tulola ko pa keokeo lau segheghue.

Then she took a third vine string and make three strings of fish.

Tulola ko ghoi pa ighiva sua pa mili lau tulola ko ighia keokeogha ze segheghue.

Then a big cloud and fog came.

Lo te lo ngai muzi / amughu na bazu.

It came and she found it hard to see trees and her way back home.

Ba tulola, / gho sasi ma / kola lo lo legheghu ma tegho pozogho ko mane bo m- / ma bo teitu lo magnigha la bo.

She found it hard because it was dark.

Tegho sasi ma muzikavili.

So while she was standing near the big river, the big something,

Tulolagho ota lo ngai piva mane la aluatu, / lo ngai poi.

The flood came, came from inland and took her down.

Jai na raghei kaotu raghe kuli ba tulola, / lo kaba komaqatu kulighue.

It took her down and down at middle of the river there was a big spiritual rock.

Kuli tulola ko / kulo jai ghobu la pa ngai / katoe pale sua zu lo majali katoe.

So when she was floating down, she stood on the spiritual rock.

Tulola, / ko kuliagho te ka ko majali kato ka te ka bo alui.

When she stood on the spiritual rock, she stood still there and found it hard and died.

Ko bo ko majali kato ka alu tulola ko ka ota pade alughue ko kama sasighue kama ko ka aveghue na.

Then she hold the fish and the fishing pole and stood still there.

Tulola, / ko kama lo mi zu lo ghau ka late ota alualeghue kama.

She was standing there and then her uncle lifted the binabina canoe, no the roko canoe.

Aluatu bua / ko kulagha lo mane lo / binabina bo sa- ei roko.

Went carving it and came back home and asked her sisters:

Bo sarili kuli ba tulola, / kova totoazalo ba zuati.

Where is your bigger sister, and they said she is fishing at the big river.

Ma / ala tegho pema ngai totoa kona tulolagho tei malagho / boi ululai ngai jai la tei.

Then he followed her.

Lo la, / lo ka saka boghue.

He went and just saw her foot prints.

Bo tulola lo bo / jai karula pono kova / malabo leghei.

He saw the footprints and looked seawards and she looked inland at him, already dead.

Malabo leghe tulola lo tei / kulo qele tulola / tulagho ma leghe lau kabai ko ave soma ko na.

She looked inland and said to him: go back.

Qele kaba tulola ko laka teighue ma liaza tei.

Go back and take my sisters and live there.

Liaza keno ai totoazalo pono bo / tau kia, / me ka ota paleghue tei.

I am already dead.

Ma agni kama / ave zu agni na tei.

So he cried sadly and went back.

Tulola lo bo / liaza tulola lo ka ngei ave tulola lo ka liazaghue.

He went back to the house and hit his wife.

Liaza tulola, / lo bo lo madaki, / tuvi la sara tulola lo madaki kalighue.

He hit her then he went inland, got down the roko and took his two nieces.

Kali tulola lova / bo kao lo rock erili lau kulitu lo la lova / lova edo kulaghazalo taughue.

Took them in and they paddled down seawards the big river.

Tau tulola paeta / lujati tulola ze ka lo ngai piva la ghavi kulighue.

He did not stay with his wife and his wife went back to her home.

Ze kama / lo kama oma lo madaki kaka palegho ko madaki lo madaki ko ko ota / ko magnighala boghue ko kama.

They paddled down river and went down in the middle of the big river and sunk.

Lo kama / ze ka ngai piva la bo / ghavighavi kuli tulola, / ze ka tei tei bua kulo kama lo ngai piva ghobu toala sara tulola zeka komughue.

They sunk and all of them died.

Komu tulola, / dulo ze ka ave zuighue kama.

All the uncle and niece all died.

Dulo kulaghagha -gha ze ka ave zuighue.

My story is just like this.

Aima kapisie teighu pono.