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el MaISHTro 298<br />

Terminada la faena <strong>de</strong> escuela, don<br />

Tacho cerraba el zaguán. Un frescor<br />

oloroso a tierra <strong>de</strong> rincón barrido,<br />

llenaba el sombrío portalón. Apretaba<br />

la tranca; y, ya solo, aislado en la frescura<br />

<strong>de</strong> las cuatro <strong>de</strong> la tar<strong>de</strong> —tar<strong>de</strong> <strong>de</strong><br />

pueblo encumbrado y ñeblinoso—, iba<br />

por las poda<strong>de</strong> ras y entraba al jardín.<br />

El jardín estaba en el traspatio. Junto al<br />

tapial <strong>de</strong> la casa vecina, cre cía la parra<br />

<strong>de</strong> jazmín, anidada toda ella, anidada y<br />

dormida en el tapexco <strong>de</strong> bambú. Dos<br />

rosales, una gemela, un matocho <strong>de</strong><br />

jacintos, unos platanillos pringados;<br />

unas chinas, dos naranjitos; un icaco,<br />

un borbollón <strong>de</strong> zacatelimón y uno<br />

quiotro montecito, no arrancado por<br />

no i<strong>de</strong>ntificado. En un barril, hundido<br />

hasta la mitad en el suelo, estaba el<br />

agua llovida para el riego.<br />

<strong>Don</strong> Tacho sabía bien qué hacer. Iba<br />

y venía; se acucharaba; se ponía en<br />

puntillas, aterraba o escarbaba según<br />

el caso. En la galera aledaña, la mula<br />

zonta299 le miraba trabajar, con un<br />

placer rayano300 en amor. Se sacudía<br />

las ancas, flacas y canosas, y se dormía<br />

viendo al amo en su tarea.<br />

154<br />

THe TeacHer<br />

Having finished his work at school,<br />

Señor Tancho closed the gate. An<br />

aromatic freshness like dirt from a<br />

recently swept dirt floor filled the dark<br />

entry way. He barred the door. It was<br />

four in the afternoon. He was now alone<br />

in the freshness of it. The afternoon,<br />

high and cloudy, crept by the gar<strong>de</strong>n<br />

shears and entered his gar<strong>de</strong>n.<br />

His gar<strong>de</strong>n was in the backyard. The<br />

jasmine bush grew next to the fence<br />

of the neighboring house. It nestled in<br />

the bamboo fence, sleeping. Two rose<br />

bushes, a twinflower, a hyacinth bush,<br />

a scarlet milkwood, a China pink, two<br />

small orange trees, a cocoplum bush,<br />

a clump of lemon grass, and some<br />

wild bushes here and there that were<br />

left untouched. A barrel, half buried in<br />

the ground, contained rain water for<br />

irrigation.<br />

Señor Tacho knew well what to do.<br />

He went back and forth around his<br />

gar<strong>de</strong>n. He bent over. He knelt on<br />

tiptoe and scratched or covered the<br />

ground <strong>de</strong>pending on the situation. In<br />

the nearby barn, the one-eared mule<br />

watched him work, with a pleasure<br />

that was almost love. It shook its skinny<br />

and gray haired haunch and fell asleep<br />

looking at its master as he worked.<br />

298. Representing the Nahuat pronunciation.<br />

299. RAE: zonto, ta. (Del nahua cuatezontic, cabeza rapada). 1. adj. El Salv. y Hond. Dicho <strong>de</strong> una persona<br />

o <strong>de</strong> un animal: Que le han cortado una o las dos orejas.<br />

300. RAE: rayano, na. 1. adj. Que confina o linda con algo. 2. adj. Que está en la raya que divi<strong>de</strong> dos<br />

territorios. 3. adj. Cercano, con semejanza que se aproxima a igualdad.

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