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O Guarani 22.65 · 22.65

Hisses from the deep

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Às vezes ouviam-se partir do fundo do balseiro os silvos das serpentes, os pios tristes de algum pássaro, que magnetizado ia entregar-se à morte; ou o tanger de um pequeno chocalho sobre a pedra.

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Sometimes there rose from the bottom of the thicket the hisses of serpents, the sad chirps of some bird that, spellbound, went to give itself up to death; or the tinkling of a small rattle upon the rock.

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