THE CHURCH OF THE ALLIGATOR

  

    An alligator dreamed that a dragon opened his mouth in front of him and he entered. Into the dragon’s mouth the alligator saw the way to the hell and the way to the heaven, but he woke before following one of the ways. The alligator repented of his sins and opened his own church in the forest.

     Several animals heard about the alligator’s dream, came to his church and formed a line to enter his opened mouth. A donkey that entered the line saw a monkey just observing the movement and asked him:

      -Aren’t you curious to know about the ways to the hell and to the heaven, my friend?

      The monkey that was out the line, answered:

      -I am going to wait the first animal to leave from the alligator’s mouth and to ask him about it.

      And then the donkey said:

      -I am not idiot like you who believe what others say. I prefer to enter there and to see with my own eyes.

     (Osmar Batista Leal)

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