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Se jue apagando como candil reseco.<br />

La melarchía lo postró muy pronto. Se<br />

quejaba, se quejaba y no podía dormir.<br />

El enfermero le puso morgina; y él soñó<br />

clarito, clarito, que llegaba a su casa y<br />

que Cirilo y su mujer cortaban con la<br />

sierra un tronco prieto, quera él mismo.<br />

No le dolía, sólo lihacía cosquillas. De<br />

su cuerpo caiba un aserrín colorado,<br />

colorado, más que el <strong>de</strong>l cedro; y vio<br />

que la Tina pepenaba una puñada y lo<br />

olía y <strong>de</strong>cía: “Jie<strong>de</strong>... núes palo duro,<br />

no aguanta, jie<strong>de</strong>... Güeliera, si juera<br />

<strong>de</strong> palo valiente. Tiene shashaco el<br />

corazón!”...<br />

Y Macario amaneció dijunto.<br />

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He was vanishing like a fading fire in<br />

a lantern. Melancholy soon prostrated<br />

him. He moaned, and moaned and<br />

could not sleep. The nurse gave him<br />

morphine, and he vividly dreamed that<br />

he was coming home and that Cirilo<br />

and his wife were chainsawing the dark<br />

chunk of wood that he was. It didn’t<br />

hurt, it just tickled him. A red sawdust<br />

oozed out of his body, even more red<br />

than the cedar, and he saw Tina pick<br />

up a handful and say “it stinks, it ain’t<br />

a good tree, it’s a coward, it stinks… it<br />

would give a pleasant smell if it was a<br />

valiant tree. It has a wormeaten heart!”<br />

In the morning Macario was <strong>de</strong>ad.

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