The magical forest
by Andres Soriano Martín
were once two sisters you liked them enjoy nature and in particular of the mountain. Marta and Paula, were their names. They lived with their parents in the city, but had a house in a small mountain village surrounded by two huge valleys filled with forests and where they used to spend weekends and holidays. The valleys were separated by a large lake that used to go for a ride in a small rowboat that his father had built in his spare time.
the other side of the shore of Lake lived an old woodcutter in the company of a beautiful shepherd dog and surrounded by forest animals who frequently visited him.
The old woodcutter, was a tall man with a big white beard, though his face betrayed the passage of time, still felt it was a strong and vigorous man. He was reputed to be a loner and shy and very bad temper. Very rarely could be seen by the people. Just when I needed to buy food or materials to repair their old hut. Did not relate to anyone.
Occasionally, Marta and Paula had met him in the grocery store and despite his serious face and distant, the truth is that they did not seem so rare a person, rather they seemed to have a look charming and reminded them of their grandfather. But what most fascinated Paula Marta and the old woodcutter was the legend about him had spread among the villagers.
According to legend, the old woodcutter had a special magical power that allowed him to talk to the animals that inhabit the forest.
Marta and Paula decided to check with their own eyes the magical power of the old woodcutter and Thus, one morning while his parents were in town, got into the rowboat and reached the other side of the lake where he lived the old woodsman.
Quietly came to the old shack behind a bush and decided to wait for animals to approach the old hut. After waiting a while, watched as they approached the forest animals. There were squirrels, bears, owls, deer, goats. All are approached with no fear to the old cabin, where he sat on the porch the old woodsman, who were called to come over and eat the food they had prepared. Forest animals, as they ate, jumped for joy around the old woodsman.
After eating, the old woodsman took the opportunity to cure the leg wound of a small fawn under the watchful eye of father and mother deer. Then the animals began to march into the forest, but not before thanking the old woodcutter the great feast that had been prepared by the characteristic growl of each of them.
Paula Marta and witnessed with wonder what happened, but were a bit disappointed because it found that the animals did not speak. Even so, they decided to come to the old cabin. The old woodcutter to see them, invited them to sit beside her, offering a bit of orange juice and a cake with rich berry that he himself had prepared.
Marta and Paula could not resist the temptation to comment on the old woodcutter was said in the village on the famous legend. At that time, the old woodcutter started laughing and laughing and laughing endlessly echoed throughout the forest. Paula Marta and understood nothing.
Then the old woodsman, still smiling, explained that to communicate with animals do not have to talk to them, is simply respect their customs, the places where they live, to love and help when need, because animals are smarter than we think and they also understand people who treat them with kindness, and to convey that love and respect is the best way to communicate with them, and moreover it is also true of people.
was an evening full of emotions. Marta and Paula, thanked the old woodcutter their hospitality and have learned a good lesson in coexistence and respect for what promised to return every afternoon to help the old woodcutter to feed the animals and what is more important to communicate with them.
and red bunting this story is over
FIN
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