“He’s not passing me without getting a paddling. One day he’ll learn.”
I shot an arrow of pity into Glória’s eyes. She always came to my rescue and I always promised her I wouldn’t do it again.
“Later. Not now. They’re playing so quietly.” She already knew everything.
She knew that I’d gone through the ditch into Dona Celina’s backyard.
I’d been fascinated by the clothes line swinging a bunch of arms and legs in the wind.
Then the devil told me that I could make all those arms and legs come tumbling down at the same time.
I agreed that it would be really funny. I found a piece of sharp glass in the ditch,
climbed up the orange tree and patiently cut the line. I almost fell down with it.
There was a cry and people came running. “Help, the line snapped.”
But a voice coming from I don’t know where yelled even louder.
It was Seu Paulo’s kid, the little pest. I saw him climbing the orange tree with a piece of glass.
“Zezé?” “What, Luís?” “How do you know so much about zoos?”
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