HALF A DOZEN FIFTEEN PESOS
The couple retired from the palapa lining up toward the fishing pier. An old man and perhaps his grandson, a toddler as five years he tried his luck with a pair of hooks that were attached to a nylon thread whose end swiftly rolled up in a rough wooden spool. The old man threw the hook that had a colorful metal counterweight as far as possible, while the boy just let him fall to the bottom of the crystal clear waters bordering the dock. A few minutes later the boy slowly pulled the hook with a crab that had been confused in the flesh with its powerful pincers. The boy grabbed the crab and threw it without fanfare in a bucket full of seawater. Soon the same, the boy after placing a large piece of bait on the hook, dropped the hook in the water and ready, quickly fell another crab while the old man did not catch anything. So were a couple of hours until picked up their propping tired of fishing and went to the Knob husbands who had been observing for some time.
-Buy me my lady crabs, "said the boy proudly showing strong bucket full of shellfish.
- As the days? Pamela asked him interested in the well-earned good artfully and pulse.
-A half-dozen fifteen dollars, "he hastened to say the kid with his loud little voice turning to see the old man nodded with a gesture of approval.
- What if I buy a dozen in how you leave me? Pamela asked rather than haggling over the cost of seafood, measuring the business skills of child. "Like Miss
to fifteen dollars a half dozen. "Scolded the child and the old man nodded again with a smile that accentuated every furrow aged dark skin.
"Well, give me a dozen owner-requested conviction against the boy's eloquence expertly made unprecedented two bundles of six crabs each. Pamela turn gave three ten-peso coins to the child kissed by the sign of the cross. Already retired when Ferdinand headed the old asking - What fishing no luck?
"The fish do not bite nearly as young, very sentenced learned to care," said the old man resigned to accept the inevitable. They walked slowly off the locals look Knob circumspect of the spouses. The decrepit old man dragged his body heavily while the child was holding the left hand while playing with the right tray where they had been even two crabs.
came home from the beach at sunset, Romelia received the bundle of crustaceans who prepared the next day chilpachole broth. After a frugal dinner, the young couple locked in a makeshift workshop with Pamela who manifested elation, without preamble or explanation, removed the cloth that covered her beloved unexpectedly leaving bare chest. Ferdinand instantly silenced. Artificial light of lamps aimed at the center of the rosette dramatically accentuated the brightness of the flashes emitted unused jewelry in all directions. With fearful Knob ran both hands moving gently over the smooth wood surface in a respectful attitude. His wife watched him in silence, and a provision almost mystical together explored one by one the strange and incomprehensible symbols endowed with extraordinary beauty. It was also enraptured with the wonderful and perfect symmetry explicit figures, prodigious mastery of the art exposed in each of the materials and the unprecedented wealth and their selection. But his fascination was still noticing the mysterious syncretism of jewelry taken in an act unquestionably deliberate and inscrutable.
- Have you read the book? He asked quietly Ferdinand fearing to break the magic spell that made them contemplate the great arcanum.
"No, well actually just some random lines ... is written Catalan, Pamela completed the sentence without really knowing what to say.
, who possessed this great relic ... Thoughtfully-exposed Mr knob-must have taken a position quite well off ... so I do not understand why ... "He paused Ferdinand fearing hurting his wife with the comment that he would exhibit, but the owner guessed his thoughts and finished the sentence for him. "I left
Pamela said stoically.
"Sorry little girl, I would not be so grim.
"Do not worry, I've thought, and do not know how it haunts me not understanding anything. Do not know what does all this with me. Moreover, do not even know that I do.
"Too many questions for one day, give love time to time, perhaps reading the book will clarify many things. Come, let us rest, tomorrow is another day. Read
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