Then the ears are separated from the stalks, and deposited in the corncrib with the husks on; otherwise, stripped of the husks, the weevil would destroy it.
Yet by the time the signs become visible the weevils that infested the tree have already had a chance to reproduce and some have already moved on to infest other trees.
Then he washed his hands, threw the oilcloth overhimself, and before midnight he returned with a few strings of dried meat, several bags of rice, corn with weevils, and some emaciated bunches of bananas.