The Season of the Stranger
“He had a sackful of food. He was tired of walking so he had gone down the narrow winding side-street to where the mill was and he was sitting on a rock watching them grind the grain. They all looked unhappy except the blind-folded donkey, who walked steadily and slowly in his circle, probably thinking that he was going somewhere and that they would take the blindfold off and there he would be in the west or in the south where it was warm. Above the blindfold the donkey’s forehead was smooth, bu...t below it his nose was wrinkled like the nose of an old man who does not like what they have put before him to eat. He walked around, going where he was going and wishing the trip was over, seeming not to notice the board that connected him to the millstone. One of the women walked around just in front of the moving board and scooped the grain back into the center of the big rock, where the millstone would be sure to go over it. Once the millstone started slipping off the rock and she yelled, “Yüüüü,”MoreLess
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