Spanish–English parallel text
Tam y Cam
Tam and Cam
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El pececito
The Little Fish
Hace mucho tiempo, una chica vivía en un pueblo de Vietnam. Se llamaba Tam. Su madre murió cuando Tam era muy pequeña.
Long ago, a girl lived in a village in Vietnam. Her name was Tam. Her mother died when Tam was very small.
Su padre se casó otra vez. Su nueva mujer tenía una hija y se llamaba Cam. Unos años después, el padre de Tam también murió.
Her father married again. His new wife had a daughter, and her name was Cam. Some years later Tam’s father died too.
La madrastra quería a Cam y le daba todo. Tam hacía todo el trabajo duro. Cocinaba, limpiaba y cuidaba del búfalo.
The stepmother loved Cam and gave her everything. Tam did all the hard work. She cooked, cleaned and looked after the buffalo.
Un día la madrastra dio una cesta a cada chica. «Id a pescar peces y gambas», dijo. «La chica con la cesta más llena va a tener una blusa roja nueva.»
One day the stepmother gave each girl a basket. “Go and catch fish and shrimp,” she said. “The girl with the fuller basket gets a new red blouse.”
Tam trabajó todo el día en los arrozales con barro y por la tarde su cesta estaba llena. Cam jugó todo el día y su cesta estaba casi vacía.
Tam worked all day in the muddy rice fields, and by evening her basket was full. Cam played all day, and her basket was almost empty.
«Hermana, tu pelo está lleno de barro», dijo Cam. «Ve a lavarlo en el agua profunda.»
“Sister, your hair is full of mud,” said Cam. “Go and wash it in the deep water.”
Tam fue a lavar su pelo. Mientras ella no estaba, Cam puso todos los peces y las gambas de Tam en su propia cesta. Después corrió a casa.
Tam went to wash her hair. While she was away, Cam put all of Tam’s fish and shrimp into her own basket. Then she ran home.
Cuando Tam volvió, solo un pececito estaba en el fondo de su cesta.
When Tam came back, only one little fish lay at the bottom of her basket.
Tam se sentó y lloró. De repente, un anciano bondadoso con una barba larga y blanca estaba a su lado. Era el Buda.
Tam sat down and cried. Suddenly a kind old man with a long white beard stood beside her. It was the Buddha.
«¿Por qué lloras, hija mía?», preguntó. Tam le contó todo.
“Why are you crying, my child?” he asked. Tam told him everything.
«Lleva el pececito a casa y ponlo en el pozo», dijo. «Dale de comer todos los días con un poco de tu arroz. Y cuando vengas al pozo, canta esta canción.»
“Take the little fish home and put it in the well,” he said. “Feed it every day with some of your rice. And when you come to the well, sing this song.”
«Pececito, pececito, sube hacia mí. Come mi arroz dorado, no el arroz de personas extrañas.»
“Little fish, little fish, come up to me. Eat my golden rice, not the rice of strangers.”
Tam hizo todo lo que el anciano dijo. Todos los días cantaba la canción y el pececito subía a comer.
Tam did everything the old man said. Every day she sang the song, and the little fish came up to eat.
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