On the beautiful island of Puerto Rico, Juan lived

with his mother. Juan was a good-hearted boy,

but he was always in trouble for not following
instructions.

One day his mother called him and said:

—Juan, I need you to go to your godmother and

ask her to borrow the cauldron. I'm cooking a
chicken asopao and it doesn't fit in the pot. Hurry
up I need it urgently!

"Of course, mom," Juan answered.

Chicken asopao was her favorite food, so she ran

up the hill to her godmother's house.

Upon arrival, his godmother greeted him and

handed him the cauldron.

"Juan, be very careful with my cauldron,

remember that it's ceramic and it can break," she
told him.
"Don't worry, madrina," answered Juan, looking
at the enormous three-legged pot.

So, he started down the hill until sweat began to

roll down his face and his arms began to feel
very, very tired from the weight of the cauldron.

His house was not far away, Juan put the

cauldron on the ground and stopped to think:

“Dogs have four legs and they walk. Cats have

four legs and walk. Chickens have two legs and
they walk, how can this three-legged cauldron
not walk?"

Juan looked at the cauldron and with all

seriousness gave the order:

—Walk three-legged cauldron, my mother is

waiting for you to make chicken asopao.

But the cauldron didn't move a bit! Very angry,

Juan kicked it and sent it rolling down the hill,
with such bad luck that the cauldron crashed
against a rock and broke into a thousand little
pieces. No one knew if Juan had chicken soup for
dinner.

What is known is that after that day, the

godmother stopped trusting Juan... and his
mother never asked him for favors again.