Doll

Two of my children already possessed mount animals. 
Now it had arrived the time of Cyomara.
Seeks of here, it seeks of there, we ended up finding a mare tame, of soft walking, good of it stamps and of coach.
An animal that was a candy. 
Plus other uncommon inhabitant in that ark, that is not of Noe. 
She was in the rut, it provoked all the horses and it ended up creating until, danger situations for the males that were on the other side of the fence. 
However, it was " never covered ", that is known. Consequently, she never gave birth.
Would homosexual be?
I don't remember to the right but, I think Waldir, that lived there "River Above", who indicated us your grandmother was, Lady Sebastiana, as being the person that possessed a good animal of it stamps to sell.
The cities changed so much, they grew in such a way, on these last twenty years that have the impression that certain places and habits are hopelessly lost in the time.
It is only who didn't knew the interior, in the good times, it won't miss. 
Lady Sebastiana lived at a ranch, imbeded in the base of a mountain. Well in the inside of a highway curve; so closed that called " her curve of the horseshoe ". It was only guessed that there below there was home, for the permanent smoke of the chimney of that stove, always lit, heating up the coffee of the coffeepot. 
The arrival was a stony great slope, full of curves, in the highway it narrows that took us the that paradise. A very wide yard , full of the tacky chickens , some dogs, a cow and the mare Doll.
While Lady Sebastiana's husband was alive, the Doll pulled the coach that took the brasses of milk for serving the faithful clientele, there in Atibaia.
After the " Father " called the milkman for Your company, the cows, little by little they went being sold, the drums also and, until, the coach had already left. Of the old activity, it just remained a cow and the mare, that we bought and it changed of city. 
During some time, we will visit Lady Sebastiana, every week and we were chatting, seated in the steps of the stairway of the kitchen, savoring to small sips, the coffee sweetened with cane honey.
The straw, looked for in the storeroom and the tobacco pricked in the palm of the hand, they turned a " paiero ", that we went exhaling along the easy chat and without hurry. A soft chat and it calms as the life in those secluded places. 
Some few chickens, a rooster, two dogs and the two unmarried daughters, Lady Sebastiana took for city. Three women alone, at that world end, was not more possible. 
Isolated, without conduction, without candidates for the girls; only remained to leave of the paradise and to go for hell. 
I never again saw them!

Carlos Gama.

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