Translation:The High Mountains/17

On a hut they hung up this sign :

Kaloyannis was right to put up these signs because the whole market was inside. They had a bag of rice, a bag of small lentils, one of potatoes, two cans of oil, a little sugar and five cheeses.

Somewhere else on a pine tree hung the sign :

On another tree was written

This was on a pine tree very far away as the abattoir is always found outside the town.

There it was, a little city. What was missing? Just a Town Hall, a High Street, a few policemen and a brass band. And yet, for this last one, the cicadas were there.