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Once upon a time there was a picturesque town inhabited by very kind and caring people, in this town a little girl named Maria lived her days between jobs and games, she was in charge of delivering the clothes that her mother mended at home for a few coins, while running with a heavy sesta towards the home of her mother's clients, she noticed a persistent noise coming from below a cliff.
Maria and the other children were forbidden to go near there, because it was an unstable place that could keep falling with just a little weight, however, Maria disobeyed, put the sesta of clothes aside and carefully approached the shore, far below, she saw a small puppy squealing for help and that was all alone in that place. Maria desperately did not know what to do, she was worried that pieces of stone and earth would fall on it from above because that could kill it.
Maria abandoned the sesta that her mother had given her and decided to go around the valley to find a safer place to go down to help the puppy. As she walked a little way, she noticed that there were some rocks that would serve as steps, but because she could not reach the end, she would have to take a risky jump to get there, without thinking too much she carefully climbed down the rocks and at the end of them, jumped with her eyes closed hoping that it was not so high.
Some scrapes on her knees began to burn, but Maria, motivated by her desire to help, kept going until she reached the place where the puppy was alone. In the distance she saw it sitting in the same place and when he saw it wagging its tail, he ran towards her to receive her, Maria felt happy, although she was terrified because she could get that abandoned puppy out of there.
When she took it in her arms, she heard a loud bark coming from across the street, it was the puppy's mother who was coming towards her to rescue it from her hands, Maria, scared, acted quickly and put the puppy on the ground, while she slowly walked away. Suddenly she noticed that behind the puppy's mother came 10 more puppies, in that huge hole there was nothing to eat and no way out for a dog.
Concerned now for the welfare of all, with loving words and some caresses she tried to gain the trust of that abandoned puppy with her puppies. She could not think how to get them out of there, for as she approached the place where she had come down she noticed that it was very high and that she herself could not climb up. Lost and frightened Maria began to cry desperately because now not only the dogs were trapped, but she was trapped too, she could not save them or herself.
The next morning, thanks to the sesta she had left behind, the villagers found Maria and from the top of the cliff they shouted that they would go for help to get her out of there. Maria felt calmer when she heard this and promised her new friends that they would soon get out of there safe and sound. After a few hours the firemen arrived and with a harness one of them went down to meet Maria, after she was ready to go up she quickly grabbed 3 of the puppies and told the fireman to please get the others.
When she got upstairs her worried mother told her it was time to go home and the firemen in turn began to prepare to leave as well, in tears Maria begged them to please rescue the other puppies because if they didn't, they could not survive. After so much insisting, one of them came down with a big cage and put the mother and the 7 puppies that were missing inside it. When Maria saw that they went upstairs, she felt that everything she had done had been worth it after all.
Her parents agreed to take care of the puppies and the puppies, but as they grew up, many of the inhabitants, moved by Maria's kind act, helped her by bringing food for everyone and many of them wanted to keep one of the puppies, with the condition that they would meet once a week at her house, so that they could spend time together with the mother and the puppies. Sometimes a simple act of kindness, even with complications, can save the life of a precious living being.
