The villagers loved to test him. They would bring him complex riddles or ask him to choose between a shiny gold coin and a dull copper one. Mateo always took the copper. "He doesn't know the value of gold!" they would laugh, patting him on the head as they walked into the local tavern .

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However, the most famous character known as "el tonto del pueblo" in Spanish literature is in La tonta del bote (a farce) or Pablito in several 20th-century stories. Most likely, your search relates to a school reading assignment of a short story titled El tonto del pueblo used in Spanish middle/high school curricula.

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