Papa, Snake & I

This story is told from the perspective of a boy in a family. After a meal, this boy went outside where he overheard his mother and father talking of a snake in their chicken run who had been killing their birds. His father said he would get someone to kill it the next day and they both went on their ways (the father to work, the mother to her sister's home). While they were gone, the boy started looking for the snake with his "brother". When he finds it, he just leaves it there. Eventually, two dogs (one theirs, another owned by a man named Senhor Castro) start to bark and paw at the snake. The snake bites the dog owned by Senhor Castro and the dog runs back to it's own home. At this point, the boy gets one of his brothers to throw a cloth over the snake while he beats it with a broomstick. After a short while, the father and mother come back and the boy shows the father the snake. Then, Senhor Castro comes over demanding that the father compensate him for his dead dog. The father agrees after a short discussion. Then the father and son talk about things and eventually the son goes to sleep.