Some days afterwards the brothers recognised their sister, and they
embraced each other very much. And this young girl who was so well
before began to grow thin. And one day one of her brothers asked her:
"What is the matter with you that you are getting thin like this?"
And she answered:
"The master every evening asks me to put my little finger through the
door, and he sucks the finger through the door, and I become every
day more sad and more languid." [46]
One day, when the Basa-Andre was not at home, these brothers and the
sister plotted together to kill Basa-Jaun, if they could catch him
in a ravine in a certain place. And they kill him.
One day the wife asks,
"Where is Basa-Jaun?"
And Basa-Andre takes out three large teeth, and brings them to the
house, and tells this young girl herself, when she heats the water for
her brothers' feet in the evening, to put one tooth in the water of
each. [47] And as soon as the third had finished washing the three
brothers became oxen; and this young girl used to drive all three
into the fields. And this young girl lived there on the birds they
(the oxen) found, and nothing else.
One day, as she was passing over a bridge, [48] she sees Basa-Andre
under, and says to her:
"If you do not make these three oxen men as they were before, I will
put you into a red-hot oven."
She answers her:
"No! go to such a dell, and take thence three hazel sticks, [49]
and strike each of them three blows on the back."
And she did what she told her, and they were changed into men the
same as they were before; and all the brothers and the sister lived
happily together in Basa-Jaun's castle, and as they lived well they
made a good end also.
Estefanella Hirigaray.