It’s all to save up to pay the rent on this new house. Father’s a good eight months behind on the other one.
You’re too young to have to worry about such sad things. But I’m going to have to help out at mass,
to pitch in at home.” He stood there a while in silence.
“Totoca, are they going to bring the black panther and the two lionesses here?”
“Of course. And old slave-boy here is going to have to take apart the chicken coop.”
He gave me a kind of sweet, pitiful look. “I’m the one who’s going to take down the zoo and reassemble it here.”
I was relieved. Because otherwise I’d have to come up with something new to play with my littlest brother, Luís.
“So, you see how I’m your friend, Zezé? Now it wouldn’t hurt for you to tell me how you did ‘it’...”
“I swear, Totoca, I don’t know. I really don’t.” “You’re lying. You studied with someone.”
“I didn’t study anything. No one taught me. Unless it was the devil who taught me in my sleep.
Jandira says he’s my godfather.” Totoca was puzzled.
He even rapped me across the head a few times to try to get me to tell him. But I didn’t know how I’d done it.
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