So began Ceobe the Storyteller her tale under the classroom's door frame on a pleasant morning: If it pleases you, lords and ladies, I'd love to tell a story about a metal crab, a mistress, and a table loaded with desserts; about how a lost soul found its way true—a design unchanged in tales of adventure both novel and antique.
Metal Crabs, little flowers, 
fizzy soda bubbles
Metallkrebse, kleine Blumen,
spritzige Sodaflaschen
Cangrejos de metal, florecitas
y burbujas de gaseosa.
Crabes en métal,
petites fleurs et bulles de soda
Granchi metallici,
fiorellini, bollicine gassate
Caranguejos de metal, florezinhas, bolhas de refrigerante
Металлические крабы, цветочки, шипучий лимонадик