The Old Man Who Read Love Stories Page #2

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This gringo was killed

by a female jaguar.

She pissed on him to mark him so

that other animals wouldn't eat him.

Superstitious rubbish.

These savages robbed and killed him,

then sprinkled him with cat piss...

They'll stop at nothing.

All right, your Excellency,

I think we've solved it.

Don't you dare move!

This man is an American citizen!

The Americans

have declared war

for less than this.

Let them go.

They and understand.

This bastard gringo killed

these cubs. Look at the bullet holes

in these little skins.

And what happened to the father?

He would have been caring for them

while the mother was out hunting.

That's what these animals do.

Look at the size of those claw

marks on this gringo.

She would have found him

by the smell of her

babies in his pack.

Let them go.

So you're not dead yet,

Antonio Bolivar.

It doesn't look like it.

- I'm not stinking either.

- I didn't know

you were a detective,

Old Man, you certainly

shut his Excellency up.

Dangerous thing to do.

But he deserves it. I hope

that one day

the Jibaro put a dart

through his head.

I think his wife will kill him first.

She's storing up the hatred.

- These things take time.

- Oh, I'm sorry.

I completely forgot with all this

dead man business.

Tell Josefina things are a little

hot for me right now.

Give me ten minutes.

Not like the old days...

You know,

I rue the day that you started

to read, Old Man.

Cost me the best lay

this side of the river.

Next.

- Name?

- Antonio Bolivar.

- Can you read?

- Don't make me laugh.

He's practically a heathen.

Can you?

I, I, I don't know.

You've been in the jungle

too long, Old Man.

The jungle rots everything,

even your memory.

What does it say here?

"The...

hon...

our...

able...

honourable...

can...

di...

date..."

Candidate.

"The honourable candidate".

There you are.

- You have the right.

- The right to what?

To vote...

in the universal secret ballot...

to make a democratic choice

between

one of the three candidates

aspiring to government office.

What is this right going

to cost me?

Nothing.

Democracy is free.

Who am I supposed to vote for?

Me, of course.

The people's choice.

Mark your cross in the top box.

It's his democratic right

to do as he's told.

Fron-te-ra.

Frontera.

Next.

Yes, I can read.

I am too old for the jungle

but at least I can read.

Sar...

di-nes.

Sar...

di...

nes.

Sar...

dines.

Sardines.

"K-nock

then enter".

- What do you want?

- The sign said

- "K-nock then enter".

- I know what the sign says.

And the word is "Knock",

you idiot.

What do you want?

I want to borrow something

to read.

What to read?

Anything.

I just got a newspaper.

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