Easter Reading

Easter Reading In Lima – Peru- a hippo was pulling the tram car with its best friend a water buffalo. They had ended up here, far from Africa, after the great flood ebbed and had been blessed with eternal life, only being mere animals they didn´t know this. In Lima no one made a big issue of this, but when the wider world knew and some adventurers set about trying to kill the pair, in vain, the Lima people took another look, especially since the church thought they were the devil´s own handiwork and god would never had allowed beasts besting man. Angry people took to hurling mud and stones at the animals, also calling them rude names. From the mountain came a man dressed in white burnoose, and spoke to the people: “For years you respected my creation, the hippo and the water buffalo, with respect and care I thought well of you and decided that the archbishop of Lima, when time was right, would be the new pope, but you have disappointed me greatly; hence the new pope will be the archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina”. The man, in white burnoose paused… and said: “It is also time you electrified the tram system.”