One Hundred Years of Solitude

and eat spider eggs without
Úrsulas knowing it, for she
was too busy with a
promising business in candy
animals. Macondo had
changed. The people who had
come with Úrsula spread the
news of the good quality of
its soil and its privileged
position with respect to the
swamp, so that from the
narrow village of past times it
changed into an active town
with stores and workshops