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¡Adiós, Cordera! y otros cuentos by Leopoldo Alas «Clarín» in the original Spanish, with our English translation beside every sentence and a dictionary on every word.
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¡Eran tres: siempre los tres! Rosa, Pinín y la Cordera.
El prao Somonte era un recorte triangular de terciopelo verde tendido, como una colgadura, cuesta abajo por la loma.
Uno de sus ángulos, el inferior, lo despuntaba el camino de hierro de Oviedo a Gijón.
Un palo del telégrafo, plantado allí como pendón de conquista, con sus jícaras blancas y sus alambres paralelos, a derecha e izquierda, representaba para Rosa y Pinín el ancho mundo desconocido, misterioso, temible, eternamente ignorado.
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There were three of them: always the three! Rosa, Pinín, and Cordera.
The Somonte meadow was a triangular patch of green velvet spread out, like a hanging, downhill along the slope.
One of its angles, the lower one, was cut off by the iron road from Oviedo to Gijón.
A telegraph pole, planted there like a banner of conquest, with its white insulators and its parallel wires, to the right and left, represented for Rosa and Pinín the wide unknown world, mysterious, fearsome, eternally ignored.
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The title story follows two children in rural Asturias, Rosa and Pinín, and the old cow they watch over in a meadow cut through by the new railway — the line that will take the cow away, and later Pinín with it. Five more stories by Leopoldo Alas "Clarín" complete the selection.
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¡Adiós, Cordera! y otros cuentos
¡Adiós, Cordera! y otros cuentos by Leopoldo Alas «Clarín» in the original Spanish, with our English translation beside every sentence and a dictionary on every word.
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