A very old gentleman with some enormous wings
To the third day of rain they had killed so many crabs inside the house, that Pelayo had to cross its patio flooded to throw them to the sea, therefore the boy newborn had passed the night with fevers and he thought that was cause of the pestilence. The world was sad since Tuesday. The sky and the sea were a same thing of ash, and the sands of the beach, that in March they shone like dust of light, they had become a broth of mud and rotten shellfish. The light was so docile at noon, that when Pelayo returned to the house after to have thrown the crabs, work cost him to see what was what moved and complained in the bottom of the patio. 117
It had to be approached a lot to discover that was an old man, that was fallen down the mouth in the quagmire, and in spite of their large efforts he could not be raised, because they were impeded it their enormous wings. It frightened by that nightmare, Pelayo ran in search of Elisenda, its woman, that was putting him compresses to the sick boy, and carried it to the bottom of the patio. Both they observed the body fallen with a quiet stupor. Was dressed as a ragman. Some pale loose threads in the skull remained him barely peeled and very few teeth in the mouth, and their pitiful condition of great-grandfather soaked it lacking every greatness. Their wings of dirty, large vulture and middle plucked, they were been stranded for always in the quagmire. So much they observed it, and with so much attention, that Pelayo and Elisenda recovered very quick of the amazement and they finished for finding it relative. Then they dared to speak him, and he answered him in an incomprehensible dialect but with a good voice of navigator. He was as well as they passed for high the objection of the wings, and they concluded with very good judgment that was a solitary castaway of some foreign ship defeated by the temporary one. Nevertheless, they called so that it to see a neighbor...