The faithful Canelo and Pepito the ungrateful.

The present Creole tale is based on a children's tale collected in the book The Art of Being a Grandfather by the great French writer Victor Hugo. In it, the cruel and ungrateful child of Victor Hugo's tale is replaced by the Pepito of Cuban tales and the faithful dog is replaced by Canelo, who for the fourth time reappears in my stories as a symbol of the noble Cuban street dog, patriotic and faithful until death to his master, no matter how cruel and disloyal he may turn out to be.