*Elsie Spicer EellsJune Portuguese fairy tale: Manoel Littlebean*

*One upon a time, there was a couple who desired to have a baby so much. Long time after, finally they got a baby as their wish. However, the baby was very small as a bean and as the years went by he never grew any bigger. His name is Manoel Littlebean. He constantly caused the troubles and worries for his parents because of his endless lost. Even that his parents loved him so much. One day, his parents couldn’t find him. They were very worried and sad. He was in the stomach of a goat in the house. He caused a very terrible stomachache to the goat and made it run around and destroy some of the things. The father decided to kill the goat and threw it into the street. A wolf ate the goat. Same with the goat, the wolf had a very terrible stomachache to the extent that it thought it was going to die. The wolf ran to the forest and lied down in a cave to wait for the death. Inside the cave, there were three thieves who were counting the gold coins in a bag. After seeing the wolf, the thieves were very afraid and ran away. The wolf spit the boy out. The boy realized that the bag full of gold in the cave could make his parents become very rich. He decided to run back to his house to tell his parents. After collecting the gold bag in the cave, his family became rich and lived comfortably after that.*