THE DRAWING OF THE HIPPOPOTAMUS

  

   The little hippopotamus did a different drawing on his notebook without bothering with his classmates that fought around him. And soon, the little cat jumped on the table of the teacher Laggard screaming:

     -Teacher Laggard, the little dog wants to bite me!

     The teacher Laggard stopped immediately passing the lesson about the living beings, ordered the little dog to sit and said to the little cat that was on his table:

     -Don't  you know the nervousness of your classmate yet?

    The little cat returned to his place going rounds in the classroom. He passed in front of the desk of the hippopotamus, saw the creature from another planet drawn and then looked to the text on the board and asked:

     -When are we going to have a nice class about flying saucers, teacher Laggard?

     And the teacher Laggard continuing to pass the text from his book to the board, answered:

      -In a distant future, after we understand the living beings of our own planet.             

  (Osmar Batista Leal)

   "O desenho do hipopótamo", versão em português desta fábula, encontra-se no livro A PERSEVERANÇA DO TATU, à venda no CLUBE DE AUTORES, ou com o próprio autor.