MEAT OF PIG

      

   When a pig went to eat the feed that a man brought to him, a fly sat on the fence of the pigsty and said:

   -The man is feeding you just to eat you later.

   The pig became nervous:  

   -If I am going to die soon, don’t bother me while I am still living.

   The fly left, but came back in the following day after the man brought the feed of the pig again:   

   -You still can escape from this pigsty!

   The pig became stressed. His screams expelled and denounced the fly.

    Next time the man brought the feed to the pig, took his hat off and stayed hidden into the pigsty. And when the insect sat on the fence, the man killed the fly with his own hat.   

     In the day that the man arrived in the pigsty with a knife instead of feed, the pig gave up hope. He remembered the message of the fly and asked for help to the soul of the insect. But the soul of the dead fly appeared just to ask for excuse:

     -I shouldn't  have bothered your short life.

     And then the dead fly disappeared and the pig complained:

     -It would be better if I had heard the alive fly.

     (Osmar Batista Leal)

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