Stupid Samuel finished eating his merienda  and was now looking up at the sky. The villagers once proclaimed that clouds had meaning. Some time ago, he remembered, the people were pointing at the red sky and declared, "Ay no! El cielo es rojo!  Virgin Mary is angry!" As if the sky being red had anything to do with the mother of Jesus.

The people looked down, and upon seeing Stupid Samuel covered with red spots, they exclaimed, in perfect English, because the villagers were momentarily blessed with the knowledge far beyond their education: "Here's the cause of our tribulation! We must let him do his penance!" But Samuel's mother, who heard this, had spoken, "¡Ya! The boy only has measles." And the villagers, who believed that a mother's words reflected the truth, went back to their business.

Stupid Samuel had been prepared to defend himself with his tiny fists. He believed what the townsfolk were saying. He considered himself too young and too naive to understand things. He assumed that "Only the wise could see."  

That happened back then, but it's now late afternoon, and the people woke up from their siestas — the napping tradition usually observed but not implemented. Through the small windows of their hut, they noticed Stupid Samuel poking at something.

Stupid Samuel turned out to be consoling a puppy abandoned by some American visitors. It was a fine dog, unlike his neighbour's. It wore a tiara and regal clothes. Stupid Samuel wondered why people did not leave them as they were, instead of dressing them up. To him, this was an oppression of identity, as if he knew what identity was.

So Stupid Samuel tried to take the ornaments off the dog, when villagers, who mistook the attempt for an act of torture, came out and yelled, "¡Ya déjalo!  Stupid Samuel. Stop hurting the poor doggie!" And together, with a synchronized motion, the crowd glanced up at the sky and shouted, "¡Mira!  Look! La nubes! The clouds! They look like dinosaurs! And they are sipping tea from their teacups! San Juan! San Pedro! Es muy mal! This is bad."  

After leaving the naked Stupid Samuel behind, who stared at them with eyes as wide as saucers, the villagers fled the barrio, only to come back later, saying, "O Dios! What a mistake."