One Hundred Years of Solitude

trying to put away supplies so
that she could eat when no
one was looking. From then
on they put her under an
implacable watch. They
threw cow gall onto the
courtyard and, rubbed hot
chili on the walls, thinking
they could defeat her
pernicious vice with those
methods, but she showed
such signs of astuteness and
ingenuity to find some earth
that Úrsula found herself