fellow is paying for the crime of being a sleeper. He was punished just because he couldn't resist falling asleep at work...
— It's well deserved," replied the spider. Who told him to eat my sixty daughters?
— So, said Narizinho, here in this kingdom, one attacking another is like that, and you can kill and swallow?
— That's right, my child, just like among men, who are vultures eating the flesh of corpses.
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Narizinho was very surprised at the way the animals saw humanity and wanted to refute the spider. But she couldn't because the spider interrupted her by saying:
- Yes, they are vultures, and they eat animal carcasses. I used to have my web in a butcher's shop in the city and every night I would see a wagon full of skinned oxen, sheep and pigs arrive, which a man called a butcher, all smeared with blood, would sell to the maids, who would take their baskets.