Adventures of Chico (1938)

[bunniefuu]

[music playing]

CHICO [VOICEOVER]: My

very long time, ever

since I was little boy,

even more little than

My father, he tell me

to take goats to graze.

I go, for here is

no boys to play,

and my goats take me that make me very happy.

Come on, see it's ver

quiet and beautiful.

Here with my goats, I

have plenty adventure

As I have nobody to

play with, I try to make

all the animals my fr

I have one very good frien

I see her every day

We are friends very

Before, she always a

But now she have little

ones, little paisanitos.

She don't say nothing

when I pet her.

She even let me see little

I wonder when little

I will sit down in onhill watching my goats.

And very soon, I hear

noise from quail.

I know my father, he bever

For my father, he mak

living catching quail

[speaking spanish]

CHICO [VOICEOVER]:

My father, very soon,

he find good place to

After a little work, we ma

When we finish, my fa

[music playing]

CHICO [VOICEOVER]: On

day as I go the one

little thing to see

my little paisanitos,

I see big coyote run

Then I see why he run

He just k*lled my

friend, the mother bird.

[speaking spanish]

CHICO [VOICEOVER]:

The little ones, they

were so little to und

I was very sad for them.

Their mother was dead

Poor little ones,

what will be of them?

I did not know what s

I sit down one

moment for thinking,

when one [speaking spanish

Oh yes, one possum

with very many

little ones hanging

on her back, run

to escape to a very n

The mother, she look

But the little ones,

they look down at me.

I don't think they

was afraid of me.

I watch them for long

Then it comes to me.

I have to take care

of the little birds.

Then I know what to do.

So I start to catch

food for them.

They eat like little

pigs all the time.

I was very busy catching

things for them to eat.

Every day, I feed them.

Very soon, they was

very big already.

One day after I feed I see a mother armadillo

go fast from her nest

They is very funny an

They have one shell o

top like one tortoise

I never see armadillo

doing anything.

But I take look at th

little ones anyway.

They have no teeth

and no can bite.

But they have very

long claws to dig.

And if you not watch out,

[growling]

CHICO [VOICEOVER]: Iw

I walk very quiet.

My heart was in my

mouth very near.

There, I see one smal

They are very dangerous,wi

and make bad wounds.

Many man run for life

up tree for safety.

Very soon, I see big

[growling]

Padre!

Padre!

[speaking spanish]

[barking]

CHICO [VOICEOVER]: That

night, I cannot sleep

I know something will

The coyote was

making chilling plan.

I was afraid.

I think of [speaking

[bells clanging]

[music playing]

[bleating]

[speaking spanish]

CHICO [VOICEOVER]: My

father was very mad.

He swear to k*ll the the very next morning

[speaking spanish]

[music playing]

[g*nsh*t]

CHICO [VOICEOVER]:

As I go over hill,

I think that my paisawas very big already.

When I arrive, I see

they are all gone.

The nest is empty.

They go away.

They not remember me.

They forget everythin

I do for them.

They even not wait to

I was very sad.

[cooing]

CHICO [VOICEOVER]:

I turn, and there

was one paisanito calling

[cooing]

CHICO [VOICEOVER]:

My friend come to me,

look like he want to talk,

He want to tell me so

I see that.

Then I see cannot talk.

He bow down before

me, like I am king.

[speaking spanish]

[cooing]

CHICO [VOICEOVER]: He

make me very happy.

I know now he's my fr

I think now my

work was paid for.

On the way home, we

stop to see one raccoon

catch fish in one sma

I watch these

animals many times.

Before, they come to

fish only in night.

When they see I don't

My friend, he like th

he see this animal.

[music playing]

CHICO [VOICEOVER]:

When I go home,

I see the troublemakershav

to little pieces.

When my father come

home, he be mad.

So they better look out.

I was very tired.

And I sit down to tak

one little siesta.

[music playing]

[cooing]

[rattling]

CHICO [VOICEOVER]: When I

The snake is dead on thegr

when I was asleep.

For a second, I was

afraid for my friend.

Maybe he was hurt.

Then I see he was all

He saved my life.

Now I know he was rea

deserve for me to

call him always mi

paisano, or in your

language, my countryman.

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