THE FRIEND FROG

      An armadillo didn’t get to sleep at night thinking about the wrong things that he did in his life until he observed an old trunk at the bottom of the bedroom and had an idea. The armadillo put all his bad remembrances in the old trunk, went to a river and threw the trunk. But when the armadillo came back home and prepared to sleep, he was bothered by the sound of his doorbell. He opened the window and saw his friend frog in front of the gate holding the old trunk. And then the armadillo was angry:

    -What kind of friend are you that bring back something that I threw in the river?

    And the frog answered:

    -I am friend of the fish too.

  (Osmar Batista Leal)

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