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Ferdinando The Bull Keiner
Ferdinando The Bull Keiner
Ferdinando. All the other bulls that lived with him ran,
They jumped and bumped each other, but Ferdinando didn't do it.
favorite tree and the little bull spent the day in the shade smelling
-Why don't you run and play jumping and bumping each other?
His mother realized that he did not feel alone and how he was a
The other bulls that had grown up with him on the prairie
They spent the day fighting. They attacked each other and gave each other
Madrid bullfightsBut Ferdinando didn't want that. He still liked to sit quietly under his cork oak to
smell the flowers. One day five men arrived with very strange hats to choose the biggest, fastest
and bravest bull for the Madrid bullfights. The other bulls ran from here to there snorting and
charging, jumping and leaping so that men would believe that they were very strong and
brave....and they were chosen. Ferdinando knew that they were not going to choose him and in
reality he did not It cared. So he went to sit under the shade of his favorite cork oak. But he didn't
notice and instead of sitting on grass, sat on a bee.What would you do if you were a bee and a bull
sat on you,
You'd bite him, right? Well that's exactly what this one did.
bee.
The five men saw it and shouted with joy. That was
the biggest and bravest bull of all. He was the best for
the day of the run.What a great day! The flags were flying, the music was playing…and all
decorated with ribbons to prick the bull and enrage it. Afterwards
long dances to sting the bull and make it even more angry.
Then the matador came out, the most arrogant of all. It was believed
very handsome and greeted all the ladies with the air of a great gentleman.
He had a red cape and a sword, and he was the one who had to hit the
bull the final thrust.Finally, the bull came out. And can't you guess who it was?
Ferdinando.
But Ferdinando did not do it. When he reached the center of the
sand and saw the flowers that the matador still had in his hands, all
No matter how much they provoked him, he did not want to charge or gore. HE
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Enseñanza:
the terrible cruelty that bullfighting hides, but also shows us various values, such as friendship, the
ability to forgive, empathy, understanding and the spirit