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 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.



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.