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O Guarani 22.66 · 22.66

Snakes among the grass

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Quando o sol estava a pino, como então, via-se entre a relva, sobre o cálice das campânulas roxas, os olhos verdes de alguma serpente, ou uma linda fita de escamas pretas e vermelhas enlaçando a haste de um arbusto.

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The setting

When the sun stood at its height, as it did then, one saw among the grass, over the cup of the purple bellflowers, the green eyes of some serpent, or a pretty ribbon of black and red scales coiling round the stalk of a shrub.

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