“I’m a pest, sir. A nuisance. A dog. A lowlife. One of my sisters said that a wretch like me shouldn’t have been born.”
He scratched his head in surprise. “Just this week I’ve had several beatings.”
“Some of them hurt a lot. I also get beaten for things I didn’t do. I get blamed for everything. Everyone hits me.”
“But what do you do that’s so bad?” “It really must be the devil’s work.”
“I get this itch to do something, and then I do it. This week I set fire to Eugênia’s fence.”
“I called Dona Cordélia a hippo and she got really mad.”
“I kicked a ball of rags and the stupid thing went through Dona Narcisa’s window and broke her big mirror.”
“I broke three street lights with my slingshot. I hit Seu Abel’s son with a stone.”
“Enough, enough.” He covered his mouth with his hand to hide his smile.
“But there’s more. I pulled up all the seedlings that Dona Tentena had just planted.”
“I made Dona Rosena’s cat swallow a marble.” “Oh! That’s no good. I don’t like to see animals mistreated.”
“It wasn’t a big one. It was really tiny. They gave the critter a laxative and it came out.”
전체재생
다음페이지
문장검색