One Hundred Years of Solitude

woodsmans ax. They hung it
to an almond tree in the
square by its ankles so that
everyone could see it, and
when it began to rot they
burned it in a bonfire, for they
could not determine whether
its bastard nature was that of
an animal to be thrown into
the river or a human being to
be buried. It was never
established whether it had
really caused the death of the
birds, but the newly married