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THE RACCOON AND THE MAN-OF-TAR
NE day Antonio was complaining because he could not catch a squirrel in his trap, when Tecla remarked: "Traps are not any good, except to catch silly birds. Animals have too much sense to go into them. You know the old Señora would never have caught the raccoon, if she had depended upon traps."
"Did a Señora catch a raccoon?" and Antonio was all interest. "How did she catch it, if she did n't use a trap?"
"This is what my godfather told me about it." Tecla sat down on a bench, and the two children leaned against her as she recited the tale.
Once an old lady lived in the country and had a very pretty garden. One night a raccoon came and helped himself to her watermelons and corn.
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