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Goyo Cuestas y su cipote hicieron un
arresto, y se jueron para Honduras con
el fonógrafo. El viejo cargaba la caja en
bandolera; el muchacho, la bolsa de
los discos y la trompa achaflanada, que
tenía la forma de una gran campánula;
flor de lata monstruosa que perjumaba
con música.
—Dicen quen Honduras abunda la
plata.
—Sí, tata, y por ái no conocen el
fonógrafo, dicen...
—Apurá el paso, vos; ende que salimos
de Metapán tres choya.
—¡Ah!, es quel cincho me viene
jodiendo el lomo.
—Apechálo, no siás bruto.
Apiaban para sestear bajo los pinos
chiflantes y odoríferos. Calentaban café
con ocote. En el bosque de zunzas, las
taltuzas comían sentaditas, en un silencio
nervioso. Iban llegando al Chamelecón
salvaje. Por dos veces bían visto el rastro
de la culebra carretía, angostito como
fuella de pial. Al sesteyo, mientras
masticaban las tortillas y el queso de
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Goyo Cuestas and his child had enough
courage to leave home with the
phonograph, and set out for Honduras.
The old man carried the phonograph
box in its case over his shoulder. The
kid carried the bag of records and the
disassembled horn shaped like a big
bellflower, 63 a monstrous tin flower
that perfumed the air with music.
“They say there’s money in Honduras.”
“Yes pa, and I’ve also heard dat dey
never heard of phonographs there…”
“Hurry up, son! You’ve been a slowpoke
since we left Metapán.”
“Well, the damn strap is diggin’ into my
shoulders.”
“Tighten it up, don’t be stupid!”
They stopped to eat 64 under the
whistling, aromatic pine trees. They
made a fire with ocote-pine logs to
warm up coffee. In the stand 65 of
zunza trees, 66 gophers sat to eat, in a
nervous silence. They were soon to
arrive at the wild Chamelecón 67 river.
They had twice seen tracks of carretía 68
snakes, their paths as narrow as if
63. Campánula, or bell-shape flower.
64. “Sestear” literally means “to picnic;” however, in this context they were there just to “eat out of the
picnic basket”.
65. Group of trees.
66. Monkey-apples.
67 Chamelecón River near Potrerillos, Honduras.
68. A very thin snake.