Splitter XII

"Capa's camera caused a sensation. The women shouted at him, and then fixed their kerchiefs, and settled their blouses, the way women do all over the world before they are photographed.
There was one woman, with an engaging face and a great laugh, whom Capa picked out for a portrait. She was the village wit. She said, 'I am not only a great worker, I am twice widowed, and many men are afraid of me now.' And she shook a cucumber in the lens of Capa's camera.
And Capa said, 'Perhaps you'd like to marry me now?'
She rolled back her head and howled with laughter. 'Now you, look!' she said. 'If God had consulted the cucumber before he made man, there would be less unhappy women in the world.' The whole field roared with laughter at Capa."

(John Steinbeck - A Russian Journal)