When Isidore has lost his mule, he had not wished to have on the other, it has dismantled its trough and he has given it to us to make a rustic balustrade. Each time he comes home we he caresses the rungs while eroded by saying "I recognize the teeth of my mule!" is that he wanted it to its Jojotte, affectionate, lasted to the task, and tough!
prior to be among Isidore,The mule was among his cousins, Georges and Pierrette, at the other end of the country in an old building on the edge of a creek. He had the air of nothing, this stream, with its very small net of water goiing from the first days of the summer, and they had built their home near him without be wary.
Georges grew its lavender and his vineyard, he worked a lot.Their two children, a girl and a boy, who became major, began to help them, and they got along very well all four ... All five by counting the Jojotte.
when she arrived to the market, any proud, with his hair well brush, and the red pompoms that Pierrette had manufactured, its two baskets loads of cheeses, d 'eggs, hens and rabbits,The people were saying: 'that is a beautiful beast, kind and hardworking! It is me who would like a mule like that! "
One day in the fall, after the grape harvest, the sky suddenly became black, if black it took turn on the lamps in the houses, and that, outside, when you walked, one no longer knew if it was on the road or in the fields.
Soon large lightning dazzling have crossed the clouds with shrapnel of thunder appalling which never ended. The rain came down, normal, first, and then more and more strong, and then as the Niagara Falls. Everyone was locked up in the shelter home, it was expected that ac stops; but it does not stop!
Then,The small stream of nothing is put to swell and to roll stones and tree branches as a torrent of mountain. He began to fill his bed, this bed so deep that it had dug before the time of men. The water approached from the closed in whirlpool, it has made a small island in the middle of the storm. His vague unkind have pulled everything,Everything that George and Pierrette had won of their sentences, or received from their parents. The next day, the storm was finished.
A great north wind has swept all the clouds, the sky is once again became clear, and one would have thought that nothing had happened, without the flooded fields the broken trees, collapsed houses. As soon as they were able,The people of the village ran see what one became chez Georges and Pierrette.
What a disaster! The collapsed walls, debris of glass, dishwasher, wood, mud Brown who smelled the bottle, and not a noise, except the clip clop of the water who returned slowly to the creek.
Of Georges, Pierrette, children, no trace, not more than that of the poor Jojotte.Therefore, it was felt that the whole world had disappeared in the storm.
during that was prayed for in the village, Jojotte is dragging in the gravel heaps, the wet earth, the slick grasses: she was trying to back up from the ravine toward the fields to save the nightmare or it had thought it die. After hours of efforts, after be degringolee several times up to the bottom of the groove,The valiant beast has finished by lead on the plateau and on the path that she had taken so often to go to the market. Since the cousins were dead and that she had chosen, the mule is remained at Isidore.
gold that is that one day he receives a letter from Montreal, yes, of the Quebec or he really knew anyone. It was the children of Georges and Pierrette who wrote him,They wanted news of the village where they were born. They were therefore not dead! How they had rises in the water that prevailed, I believe that it is with old tires that they had managed to catch. How they have led to Marseille, and how, from here, they found themselves in Quebec I could not te the explain, I can only say that for a very long time,They did not want to hear talk of the country where they had been so afraid, and or they had nothing more. They opened a restaurant, and by working a lot they are become almost rich.
a few years ago, they are income to the village for a holiday. And when the old Jojotte, who still lived, their is emerged in the morning sun,They are raw income at the time of their childhood, at the time or they brought to market, any proud, with its baskets full of eggs of fruit and cheese.
As the mules have good memory, I assure you that it has done to them feast, and that it was a pleasure to see them all so happy.
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