Dog and Goat are travelling together. Whenever they come to a town, even before greeting the people, they slip in and eat what they find, — Goat, the cassada (cassava); Dog, the rice and meat. On finding them, the people beat them with big clubs, and drive them out of town. Goat never opens his mouth, but Dog always howls. Finally Goat loses patience with Dog, and asks, ‘Why do you howl every time you are struck?’ — “Because it hurts me.” — “It hurts me too, but that’s nothing; since you don’t mean to stop stealing, why not do like me? I always run away and say nothing, knowing well enough that I intend to steal again at the next town.”