“Look, everything I find out, I’ll come tell you, OK?”
I went over to the long grass growing in the ditch and looked at the dirty water running through it.
“What did we decide the river was going to be called the other day?” “The Amazon.” “That’s right. The Amazon.”
“Downstream it must be full of savage Indians’ canoes, right, Pinkie?” “Tell me about it! It must be.”
We’d barely started chatting and there was Seu Aristides closing up the house and calling me.
“You staying or coming with us?” “I’ll stay here. Mother and my sisters must be on their way by now.”
And I went around examining every little detail of the place.
In the beginning, out of shyness, or because I wanted to make a good impression on the neighbours, I was well behaved.
But one afternoon I stuffed the black stocking, rolled it in twine and cut out the tip of the toe.
Then I tied a long piece of kite string to the place where the toe had been.
From a distance, if I pulled slowly on it, it looked like a snake, and in the dark it would work a charm.
At night everyone went about their own business. It was as if the new house had changed everyone’s spirits.
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