Chapter 6 The origin of the armadillo

The origin of the armadillo Beloved, this is another story from a distant time, in the middle of that time a hedgehog with bristly spines lived on the banks of the murky Amazon, feeding on snails and such.He had a friend, the slow, sturdy tortoise who also lived on the banks of the murky Amazon, feeding on things like green lettuce.That's all right, dear, do you understand? Meanwhile, in those remote times, too, the jaguar with the colored head lived on the banks of the murky Amazon, feeding on whatever food he could catch, and if he couldn't catch deer or monkeys he caught frogs and insects, he If he couldn't catch frogs and insects, he went to ask the female jaguar how to eat hedgehogs and turtles.

She wagged her tail kindly and told him countless times, my son, "When you find a hedgehog you have to throw him in the water and he spreads out, when you catch a turtle you have to use your claws Shell off the turtle." That'll do it, darling. One beautiful evening, on the banks of the murky Amazon River, the colored jaguar found a prickly hedgehog and a slow, sturdy tortoise sitting under a tree trunk lying on the ground. They could not escape, and the prickly hedgehog Rolled up into a ball, for he was a hedgehog; and the slow, strong tortoise tucked his head and feet into his shell as he could, because he was a tortoise.That's all right, dear, do you understand?

"Listen now," said the beautiful jaguar, "because it's very important. My mother said that when I meet a hedgehog, he throws him into the water and he spreads out. When I meet a turtle, I claw him off. Turtle shell. Which of you is a hedgehog and which is a tortoise? I can't tell. "Are you sure what your mother said?" said the hedgehog with the bristly spines. "Are you sure? Maybe she said that you're going to spread the tortoise's body and you'll have to shell him out of the water with a shovel, You catch a hedgehog and you have to throw him on the shell."

"Are you sure what your mother said?" said the slow, strong tortoise. "Are you sure? Maybe she said that you put the hedgehog in water and you gotta hold him in your hand, and you gotta tortoise peeling him body until he opens his body." "I don't think it's said that way," said the colored jaguar, somewhat puzzled. "Please make it clearer." "When you hold some water in your hand, spread it with the hedgehog," said the bristly hedgehog. "Remember, this is very important." "But," said the Turtle, "you took your meat and threw it on top of the Turtle with the spade. Why don't you understand?"

"You're giving me physical pain," said the colored jaguar, "and, I don't take your advice, I just want to know which is the hedgehog and which is the tortoise." "I don't want to tell you," said the bristly hedgehog, "but you can shell me if you want." "Aha!" said the colored jaguar, "Now that I know you're a turtle, you think I won't! I will." When the hedgehog wanted to pull back, the colored jaguar quickly stretched out its big claws.Of course, at this time, the jaguar's big claws were covered with thorns, and what was worse, he knocked the hedgehog into the woods and bushes, and it was so dark that he could not be found anywhere.Then he put the big claws in his mouth, and that pricked him even harder.Before he could speak, he said, "Now I know he's not a tortoise at all, but"—he scratched his head with his thornless claw—"how do I know the other one is a tortoise?"

"But I'm a tortoise," said the slow, firm tortoise. "Your mother is right. She said you should peel my shell with a shovel, so let's begin." "Didn't you say what she said a few minutes ago," said the jaguar, sucking the spine out of its claw. "You said she said something quite different." "Oh. If you say I said what she said differently, I don't see the difference, because she said what you said and I said what she said, and I said what she said and she said. The other On the other hand, if you think she said you opened my body with a shovel instead of clawing it to pieces with a shell. I can't help it, can I?"

"But you said you wanted to claw your shell off," said the jaguar. "If you think about it you'll see I didn't say that, I said your mother said you were going to peel me off," said the slow, hard guy. "I don't know, because I haven't peeled your shell, but what I do want to tell you is that if you want to see me swim away, you have to throw me into the water. "I don't believe it," said the jaguar, "you've mixed up what my mother told me to do and you asked me if I was sure she didn't say it till I didn't know if I was on my head or my pigmented tail ...and now you're telling me things I can't understand, it's more confusing than ever. My mother told me to throw one of you into the water, you want to be thrown so badly I think you don't want to be thrown, jump into Go to the muddy Amazon, hurry up."

"I warn you your mother won't be happy, don't tell me I didn't tell you," said the slow, firm fellow. "If you say another word my mother said—" the jaguar replied, and before he could finish the sentence the slow, hard guy had jumped into the murky Amazon and dived underwater. A long way out from the banks of the prickly hedgehogs etc. "It's so dangerous, I escaped a catastrophe," said the bristly hedgehog, "I didn't make fun of the jaguar, did you really tell him that you are a turtle?" "I did tell him I was a turtle, but he didn't believe it. He made me jump into the water to see if I was, and I was, and he was amazed. Now he's gone back and told his mum, listen!"

They could hear the pigmented jaguar roaring back and forth in the jungle by the murky Amazon until his mother arrived. "Son!" his mother had said many times, wagging her tail kindly, "did you do something you shouldn't?" "I tried to peel off the shell that wanted me to claw it off, but I got spines all over my paws," said the colored jaguar. "Son!" His mother had said so many times, wagging her tail kindly, "I think it's a hedgehog that stabbed your paw. You should throw him into the water." "I did that to another thing, he said he was a turtle, I didn't believe him, but he did, he went down the murky Amazon and never got up, I have nothing to eat, I think We'd better find a place to board, they're too smart for poor me on the banks of the muddy Amazon."

"Son!" His mother had said so many times, wagging her tail kindly, "Listen and take what I say, a hedgehog will roll up into a ball and he'll have quills all over him. Then you'll be able to identify the hedgehog .” "I don't like that old woman at all," said the prickly thing under a leaf, "and I wonder what else she knows?" "The tortoise doesn't roll up," his mother went on, as many times as she had said, wagging his tail kindly, "he just puts his head and tail in the shell so you can identify the tortoise." "I don't like that old woman at all, not at all," said the slow, hard tortoise, "even a painted jaguar would not forget such instruction. Prickly hedgehog, it's a pity you can't swim."

"Don't talk to me," said the prickly hedgehog. "Think how nice it would be if you could curl up. Bad enough! Listen to the colored jaguar." The painted jaguar sits on the bank of the murky Amazon, sucks out the spines, and murmurs to himself— Can't roll, but can swim—— Slow and hard, that's him! curled up, unable to swim— What a thorn, that's him! "He won't forget this Sunday of the month," said bluntly, "hold my chin, slow and hard, I'm going to learn how to swim, it might be useful." "Excellent!" said the slow, hard tortoise, and he held the chin of the hard-spined hedgehog as he treaded water in the muddy Amazon. "You will be a good idler," said slowly and firmly, "Now, you untie the shell-shaped plate on my back, and I will see how to roll up my body, maybe it will be useful." Hard Thorn helped the tortoise untie its back shell, so that by twisting and deforming, the slow and hard tortoise managed to make him curl up a bit. "Excellent!" said sharply, "but I shouldn't do it just now, it will make your face black, lead me to the water again, I will practice the simple freestyle you mentioned. "Prickly practiced, slow and hard just swam by the side. "Excellent!" said slowly and firmly, "a lot of practice will make you a whale, and now if I bother you to undo my front and rear shells as big as two holes, I will try what you say is very simple Fantastically shrunken. Jaguars will be amazed!" "Excellent!" said Stingy, wet from the cloudy Amazon, "I declare that I don't know you from any of my family. I think you mean, two holes? Please be clear Point, don't mumble too much, or the painted jaguar will hear. When you're done, I'm trying to do a long dive, and you say it's too easy. Surprise the painted jaguar!" So the prickly hedgehog dived, with the slow and hard tortoise beside him. "Excellent!" said slowly and firmly, "just pay attention to hold your breath, you will have a home in the muddy Amazon, now I will try the very comfortable movement you said, put the hind legs around the ears , surprise the colored jaguar!" "Great!" said Stingy. "Would deform your back shells, they're now stacking up instead of being flat on top of each other." "Oh, as a result of training," said Slow and Hard, "I've noticed that your quills seem to be blending together, not as chestnut-like as before." "Me?" said Prickly, "from soaking wet in the water, oh, surprise the colored jaguar!" They continued to practice and help each other until dawn.When the sun was high, they went to rest and dry their bodies.They see that they are not the same as before. "Prickly hedgehog," said the tortoise after breakfast, "I am not the same as yesterday, but I think I will make the colored jaguar laugh." "That's what I was thinking about just now," said Prickly. "I think Prickly has changed a lot—not to mention swimming. Oh, surprise the painted jaguar! Go to him." It was not long before they found the painted jaguar, still tending to his paw which had been injured the night before, and he fell backward three times on the painted tail in amazement. "Good morning!" said prickly, "how is your dear noble mother this morning?" "She's fine, thank you," said the colored jaguar, "forgive me if I can't remember your name at this moment." "That's unkind," said Prickly, "to see you trying to claw me out at this time yesterday." "But you have no shell, only spines," said the colored jaguar, "I know, look at my claws!" "You want me to jump into the muddy Amazon and try to drown me," said slowly and firmly, "Why are you so rude and forgetful today?" "Don't you remember your mother's words?" said Thorny,— Can't roll, but can swim—— Slow and hard, that's him! curled up, unable to swim— What a thorn, that's him! Then they all rolled up and rolled around.Color the jaguar until the eyes on his head look like wheels. He went to invite his mother. "Mom," he said, "two new animals came to the forest today, the one you said couldn't swim could swim, and the one you said couldn't roll could roll. They both had thorns, I think because both There are scales all over the body, instead of one smooth and the other spiny, and, they roll around in circles. I don't feel comfortable." "Son!" his mother had said many times, wagging her tail kindly, "a hedgehog is a hedgehog and cannot change; a tortoise is a tortoise and nothing else." "But it's neither a hedgehog nor a tortoise, it's both. I don't know what to call it." "Nonsense!" said the female jaguar. "Everything has a name. I'll call him an 'armadillo' until I find a new one. That's it." The colored jaguars did as he said, especially told him to leave them alone, but the strange thing is that from that day till now, oh dear, there is nothing but an armadillo on the banks of the muddy Amazon named spiny and Slow and hard.Elsewhere there are hedgehogs and tortoises, of course (there are some in my garden); but long ago wise ancient animals with stacked scales like pine cones lived on the banks of the murky Amazon called the armadillos. Adillos, because they are so smart. Oh dear, well that's the end of it, you understand? I never crossed the Amazon, I have never been to Brazil; But Dong and Magdelana, They'll be there when they will be! Yes, every week from Southampton, Great steamer, gold and white, roll down to rio (rolling down--Leo rolling down) i want to roll down to leo Someday before I get old! I haven't seen a jaguar, Never seen an armadillo Oh his armor, I guess I don't want to, unless i go to rio These wonders to see-- Rolling Down - Leo Rolling Down roll down to rio oh i want to roll down to leo Someday before I get old!