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104 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1961
It was seven-twenty when he finished winding the clock. Then he took the rooster into the kitchen, tied it to a leg of the stove, changed the water in the can, and put a handful of corn next to it. A group of children came in through a hole in the fence. They sat around the rooster, to watch it in silence.
‘You can’t eat hope,’ the woman said.
‘You can’t eat it, but it sustains you,��� the colonel replied.