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Once there was a mother raccoon who had three cubs; they all lived in the woods eating fruits and berries and birds' eggs. Whenever they were on a tree top and heard a noise, they would jump head foremost to the ground and scamper off with their tails in the air.
One day when the cubs had grown to be quite large sized raccoons, their mother took them up all together to the top of an orange tree -- you must know that in South America orange trees, which came originally from Spain, now grow wild in the forest -- and spoke to them as follows: