Where did you put the verb put?

Ruth's blog, chronicles

by Julia de Mello e Souza My late cousin Julia de Mello e Souza was a teacher of Neo-Latin languages and wrote several chronicles. I was still going to write a headline “What the end took to the end”, but I don't know if I had time. It's just that dictionaries already accept the word "final" as a noun, when it was an adjective of…

The ant, the dove and the hunter

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Aesop's Fable An ant fell into the water, and would have drowned if a kind dove had not tossed him a tree branch as a lifebuoy. A hunter arrives and prepares his weapon to shoot the dove. The ant seeing this, and the danger that his benefactress was in, quickens its pace and...

The dog and the oxen

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Aesop's Fable A dog went to lie down in a manger full of hay, and when the oxen came to the stable, he would not let them eat. A couple of oxen came over to take some hay, but the furious dog started barking and baring its teeth. – “Petty animal”, said the ox, “how bad you are!…

the soothsayer

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Aesop's Fable A soothsayer was in a square, predicting the future, when he was told that the doors of his house were open and that everything had been stolen from him. He immediately began to run home, and then someone said to him: – “Man, then you, who guess the fate of others, did not know how to guess your own?”…

The Shepherd and the Lion

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Fábula de Esopo A um pastor roubaram um cordeiro e ele, cheio de ira, ofereceu a Júpiter o seu mais gordo cabrito, se encontrasse o ladrão. Ato contínuo viu por entre um arvoredo um grande leão despedaçando o seu cordeiro. Aterrorizado exclamou: – “Ó altíssimo Júpiter, ofereci-te um cabrito para me concederes a graça de…

The crow and the fox

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Aesop's Fable A crow stole a cheese and took it up a tree. A fox, who saw this, began to praise him with the intention of taking away his cheese. and said to her: – “Certainly, beautiful bird, there is not among all the birds anyone who has the splendor of your feathers, your elegance and…

the frog and the ox

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Fábula de Esopo Uma rã convenceu-se de que poderia ficar tão grande quanto um boi, se conseguisse inchar sua pele. Com esse fim, começou a fazer tanto esforço que daí a pouco já se julgava tão grande quanto um boi, e perguntou às irmãs se tinha crescido o bastante. Responderam-lhe que não, e ela continuou…

The wolf and the stork

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Fábula de Esopo Um lobo estava comendo um osso que se lhe atravessou na garganta. Viu-se tão aflito que foi pedir a uma cegonha que lho tirasse com seu longo bico, e fez-lhe muitas promessas. A cegonha socorreu-o e depois pediu-lhe que cumprisse sua palavra, ao que o lobo respondeu: – “Como és tola! Tive…