Zoilo Palomer and peace in Ciudad Rodrigo.
Ciudad Rodrigo, April 1810. Near the border with Portugal, a small town called Ciudad Rodrigo was surrounded by the French army. Here lived a small boy of 7 years old; he was tall for his age, with brown hair and blue eyes. He was called Zoilo Palomar. Zoilo liked to play the drum and the bagpipe, besides he liked playing with his friends. Although at that it time was dangerous to go out because bombs were falling all the time and the French fired them from outside the wall. Zoilo was to take some water to his father who was defending the city in the wall. When he arrived one day he didn´t find his father and he was very scared. Suddenly he heard his father is voice who was calling him calling loudly and said: Zoilo help me bring my partner home! The child obeyed his father and he left the drums and bagpipes, that he always carried to everywhere to help him. He felt very sad when he saw that his father's friend was wounded in a leg. When helped his father, Zoilo took back the drum and bagpipes and played through the streets of the city without stopping. The French heard it and they liked the sound so much that they stopped bombardingfor a while, so that the child could bring peace to Ciudad Rodrigo.
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