Sleeping Beauty

ONCE AGAIN in a distant kingdom, a king and a queen who had a beautiful little princess, whom they called Aurora.

To celebrate their birth, all fairies were invited to bridesmaids. Each of the fairies, as a gift, gave the little princess a special gift. All except one, the evil fairy, who wasn't invited.

This, knowing that all the other fairies had been invited to celebrate the birth of Princess Aurora, decided to appear in it to the party and, instead of granting her a gift to the little princess, cast a curse on her:

- Princess Aurora, the day you turn 15 you will sting yourself in a spindle and die!

Everyone in the castle was very distressed. Luckily, there was a good fairy who had not yet granted her wish, and, not being able to prevent Aurora from poke into a spindle, altered the evil fairy's spell, so that the little princess instead of dying would fall into a deep sleep. This spell could only be broken after a hundred years, when a prince passing by fell in love with the princess and kissed her.

Even so, the king had immediately destroyed all the spindles and rock trees that existed in the kingdom, to prevent his daughter from stinging.

The years passed and life went on without any agitation, making the curse just a bad memory.

On the day of her fifteenth birthday the princess, who played in the garden, is strangely drawn into the castle. There she finds an abandoned tower and decides to enter...

Inside the room she found a pointed object she didn't recognize.

- What a strange object... What will it be?

Not resisting curiosity picked it up and accidentally stung herself! Immediately the little princess falls into a deep sleep.

The good fairy finds the sleeping little princess and takes her to the castle, lying her in her royal bed. The fairy also decides to fall asleep all the inhabitants of the castle, in a deep sleep for a hundred years.

Meanwhile in the kingdom runs the legend of a beautiful sleeping princess...

One fine day, a brave young prince manages to cross the dense forest that surrounded the castle and finds all its inhabitants asleep. Knowing the legend, he heads to the princess's room and discovers the most beautiful young woman he has ever seen and can't resist kiss her.

At that moment, the princess wakes up, as do all its inhabitants. Life had returned to the castle!

On that same day the wedding between the beautiful Princess Aurora and the brave prince, who lived happily ever after, was celebrated.

Mary Brown

In Portuguese, "chestnut" and "brown", it is written and said in the same way, with the same word: "Castanha".

The sky was gray, and the sun almost never appeared, but while it didn't rain the boys would play for the garden. A very large and beautiful garden, with a grid painted green all around, so that there was no danger of the cars coming in and running over boys who ran and played at will, in many ways: some walked on the swings and slides, others would pour bread at the lake ducks, others put their feet through the dry leaves and make them pop – crac, crac – under their boots, others ran with open arms behind the pigeons, who stood up and fled, also with open wings.

It would be nice to go to the garden. And even though there was no sun, children felt their feet warm and were with their cheeks red from both running and jumping. Once appeared in the garden a different girl: had no red cheeks, but a round, brown face, with two large dark and bright eyes. 

- What's your name? – they asked her. 

- Mary. Sometimes they call me Mary Brown.

- How funny, Mary Brown! You want to play?

- I do. They went to play the catch game. Mary Brown ran more than anyone. 

- Who's going to get me? Nobody gets me! - Nobody gets Mary Brown! She ran so hard. She ran so hard, she didn't even see the chestnut salesman's cart outside the garden, and she went up against him. Bam! The bag of chestnuts fell and spread them all to the rebolet across the floor. Mary Brown fell too and sat in the middle of the chestnuts. 

- Oh, I'm sorry. 

- My sassy! - cried the chestnut salesman all angry.