Gugada Giel

"Mama," he said, "when you told me to go around, dona, dona, I opened the box and ate all around the edges of the pizza, and when you said it again, I ate some more around the edges. When you said, 'Go menza menza,' I opened the box again and ate half of what was left. But you said, 'Go menza menza,' again, so I ate the other half. And now I am very full."
Gugada Giel's mother looked at him sternly and said, "Gugada Giel, how could you eat the whole pizza and leave no dinner for your Papa and your sisters?"
Gugada went to his room thinking that he had made his mother very angry. "I know what I will do," he thought, "I will run away from home!" So he slid out his window and ran. He ran straight out of their small city and kept running until he got tired. It was only then that he asked himself, "But where am I running to? And that was when he realized that he had made a BIG mistake. He was very tired now, and lost, and it was dark. So he said his prayers in an open field and laid himself down on some soft grass.
Now, an open field that looks like a bed to a little boy sometimes looks like a breakfast table to a cow. Early in the morning, while Gugada was asleep, a cow was grazing. I suppose the cow was very large and Gugada was very small, for the cow did not see him, but swallowed him with a clump of grass in one gulp. Even so, Gugada did not wake up until he heard his mother's voice, "Oui Gugada Giel! Where are you, Gugada?"

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