North Africa · Maghreb · a North African market town and the road home (Maghreb)
The heroes of this story.
Counts nine donkeys while sitting on the tenth. Counts wrong every time he climbs back on — and laughs until tears run.
Long-suffering, expressive ears; sits down in the road and knows the answer all along. Never speaks.
Sails overhead, wider than a house. Juha — the only one who looks up instead of running — promises to count its feathers someday.
Counts at the gate: ten donkeys, one Juha.
Juha's uncle gives him ten donkeys to bring home, and Juha counts nine — because he's sitting on the tenth. Down: ten. Up: nine. Down: ten. Up: nine. It works every single time, until a neighbor laughs the kind laugh and shows him. That evening Juha tells the story wrong on purpose, and draws the day's lesson in the dust for his mother to find.
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