One Hundred Years of Solitude

over his upbringing, his
mother was against it. Úrsula
at that time did not know
about the custom of sending
virgins to the bedrooms of
soldiers in the same way that
hens are turned loose with
fine roosters, but in the
course of that year she found
out: nine more sons of
Colonel Aureliano Buendía
were brought to the house to
be baptized. The oldest, a
strange dark boy with green