They Gave Us the Land
Four men have been walking since before daylight across a hard white plain, measuring the distance by the heat and by how far the sound of a dog will carry. The land underneath them was granted to them by the government after the revolution, and one of the four is still carrying a hen inside his coat. Rulfo's first published story, from 1945, and the piece that opens the collection.
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- contained in ↑ The Burning Plain
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