"During the times when the animals spoke" is a poem in cordel form by Manoel Pereira Sobrinho. Here the image shows various animals including a human being engaged in a dialogue with different animals. Bichos can be translated as vermins.
Attribution:
Literatura de cordel: Manuel Florentino Duarte, José Costa Leite, José Pacheco, José Soares
"Captain" Virgulino Ferreira da Silva (Brazilian Portuguese: [viʁgwlĩnw feˈʁejɾɐ da ˈsjwvɐ]), better known as Lampião (more archaic spelling 'Lampeão', Brazilian Portuguese: [lɐ̃piˈɐ̃w], meaning "lantern" or "oil lamp"), was the most famous bandit leader of the Cangaço. Cangaço was a form of banditry endemic to the Brazilian Northeast in the 1920s and 1930s. Lampião's exploits turned him into a 'folk hero', the Brazilian equivalent of Jesse James.[Wikipedia]
Location Call No. Status
Main (Gardner) Stacks PQ9561 .T38 2005 ON EXHIBIT
PRINTED MATERIAL
Edition 1a ed.
Description 158 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Subject Brazilian poetry -- History and criticism.
Chapbooks, Brazilian -- History and criticism.
Curran, Mark J. Relembrando-a Velha Literatura De Cordel E a Voz Dos Poetas / Mark J. Curran. [Bloomington, Indiana?] : Trafford Publishing , 2014. Print. p.45
(See: http://docvirt.com/docreader.net/DocReader.aspx?bib=cordel&pagfis=91220&pesq=)