THE DINOSAUR .- {Stories}

 

 

 

When Julio saw that the ground was rising in the yard of his house, forming a mountain, he let go of the tricycle and the red bear and ran to the kitchen to look for his mother.

"Mom, mom," he shouted, "the Andes mountain range is coming!"

The lady rinsed her hands, dried them on her apron and went to see.

The dog Thor had already been digging and on the mountain you could see something white covered by the earth.

-My God! -exclaimed the mother and called the grandfather who was reading the newspaper in the living room.

With picks and shovels they all got up and started digging.

After a while an egg appeared. A huge egg.

"It's a cow's egg," said Julio.

Or elephant.

The three of them remained attentive, very still, in silence, in case the egg made any suspicious movement. But since nothing happened, they brought the kettle and started drinking mate cebado while they waited.

In the afternoon, the egg began to crack until a piece broke and the head of a horrible bug emerged with a disoriented look.

-Can we stay with him? - Julio asked immediately.

-He's a Martian! -said the scared mother. He is invading us!

The grandfather looked at him serenely smoking his pipe.

"No, sir," he said at last. It's a dinosaur.

-A what? -Julio and his mother asked at the same time.

-Dinosaurs are animals that lived a long time ago. They no longer exist - explained the grandfather.

-Are they from your time, grandpa? -Julio asked.

-Its alive! -the mother shouted-. He Moves! I'm going to look for the insecticide.

But he stopped when he saw that the baby dinosaur was observing them all with great curiosity. Maybe he thought it was his family. He had very big eyes and his head shook from side to side because his neck was skinny and weak.

-Guri! -he growled excitedly.

The dog got scared and started barking at him.

-Thor! -Julio called to silence him. Thor returned panting to where the family was.

"Well," said the mother. What are we going to do with this horrible animal?

"We can raise him," Julio proposed. I would build a little cage in the bottom.

The mother did not agree and wanted to throw him out on the street; but grandfather said that he was very small and defenseless and he would not know what to do or how to survive in a city.

"He can wander around and eat anything out there," said the mother, who did not want to have him in her house. At night people will confuse him with just another dog.

Grandfather decided that it would be best to take care of him until he grew up, because there was also the danger of him being caught by paleontologists.

Julio asked who the paleontologists were.

"They are men who collect dinosaur bones," the old man explained.

The mother was very impressed thinking that someone could remove the bones from that bug that was ugly, but that she was beginning to like.

"It's okay," the mother approved. She will stay until she grows up. Then we will release him into the mountains.

Thus, it was decided that the dinosaur would remain in the house for a while.

At first, since they didn't know what to feed him, they brought him several things: a celery from the garden, the half watermelon that was left over from lunch, the freshly made errand for the empanadas for dinner, a worn-out truck tire, an old scarf. , two broken porcelain cups and a chair without legs. The little animal opened its mouth and began to chew and swallow. He ate everything and what he liked the most were the fringes of the scarf, because they were blue.

As the days passed, he became friends with Thor. They played together with a ball that their grandfather threw them.

After three months the dinosaur had grown so much that it stuck its head out over the back wall.

They had to put two more rows of bricks so people wouldn't see it. If the secret was known, it could reach the ears of some paleontologist.

The mother had become impatient and thought that the time was approaching to take the dinosaur to the mountains so that it could fend for itself.

-This bug is going to cause us problems - he said.

But since Julio was crying and his grandfather claimed that it wasn't time yet, his mother had to grant... two more years.

In those two years, the dinosaur grew a lot. The back wall was already as high as an apartment building and the neighbors wondered why they added two or three rows of bricks every week.

One night, when everyone had gone to bed, a thief entered the house. With a lot of work, he scaled the wall and went down to the patio. The poor man believed that the family only had a small dog that barked but did not bite.

Thus, when Thor saw him and wanted to warn him, the thief sprayed him with a spray bottle and left him asleep. He confidently crossed the garden to go to the rooms and suddenly, he discovered that something enormous was coming towards him. In the moonlight he could clearly distinguish the head of a hideous animal, full of teeth as big as bottles.

-Guri! -he heard the monster say.

He started running shouting:

-Help! I just wanted to commit a simple robbery.

But the dinosaur grabbed him with the mouth of his pants and lifted him into the air. The thief stayed there, unable to escape, until his grandfather, his mother and Julio went to see what was happening.

"Please tell him to let me go," the man asked. I'm going to confess everything since I stole my aunt's change from the store.

It had turned out to be a guardian dinosaur.

The neighborhood lights had turned on. People wanted to know what was causing so much noise and shouting and gathered at the door of the house.

There was such a scandal that the police and fire department came to restore order.

In the end, the secret could no longer be kept. Everyone learned that in the courtyard a horrible monster had caught a thief.

There were detectives who took statements and journalists who took photos with flashes and reported on the family. The firefighters climbed the stairs to rescue the thief, who was still hanging by his pants; Neighbors came and went with glasses of water to help those who were fainting. Thor had woken up and was barking happily, thinking it was a party. The boys asked Julio if he would lend them the dinosaur for an afternoon in exchange for two ball bugs, a difficult figurine, and a light-up yo-yo.

The grown-ups wanted to know where they had him train.

Finally, like all things in this world, that night also passed. At dawn, the police took the thief away, the people left and the grandfather, the mother and Julio went to sleep. They were exhausted and woke up at noon, startled by a knock at the entrance.

The grandfather went to answer and when he opened, a man in shorts appeared, with a magnifying glass the size of a frying pan in his hand.

He was wearing a safari hat on his legs and three-quarter length socks on his head, sorry, a safari hat on his head and three-quarter length socks on his legs. It's just that anyone gets nervous when he arrives... Do you know who this man was? This man, do you know who he was? Who was this man, do you know? He was a paleontologist who had heard the news the night before on the radio.

With quite a bit of distrust, the old man let him in and the dinosaur, as soon as he saw him through the window that overlooked the gallery, began to tremble with fear like a leaf.

Julio and his mother had also gotten up.

-Are you going to remove the bones? -Julio asked scared.

"You should be ashamed," the lady grumbled. Trying to harm an innocent animal.

The paleontologist laughed and assured them that he did not want to bother the dinosaur at all.

Calmer, they invited him to lunch and he told them that a museum had sent him and that he only needed to take some photos and do some x-rays with a little device he had in his suitcase. Furthermore, if they allowed him, he could visit them once a week and write notes about the little animal's habits.

The family accepted the scientist's proposal and thus began a new friendship that especially benefited Julio, the dinosaur and Thor, because the man, every time he went, gave them each a lollipop.

With the help of his grandfather, the paleontologist wrote down observations as interesting and revolutionary as this one: “The dinosaur, if someone throws a ball at it, will go look for it and bring it back.”

In this way, without fear, there was no need to hide anything anymore and the whole family could often be seen walking along the neighborhood sidewalks, carrying their two pets on a collar and leash.

Since then, grandfather, mother, Julio, the paleontologist, Thor and the dinosaur lived happily and ate partridges, although some of them preferred scarf fringes; blue, of course.

 

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