Answer: The answer is:
<em>the old man takes a few practice runs then finally flaps his enormous wings and disappears into the horizon</em>
Explanation:
After a particularly hard winter, the old man takes a few practice runs then finally flaps his enormous wings and disappears into the horizon, much to the relief of Elisenda. Everyone is just relieved that he's finally gone. After all Pelayo and his wife didn`t show hospitality to the old man by locking him in the chicken coop and neglecting him.
It really depends on what you consider an important farmer. For example George Washington Carver discovered peanuts to help farmers from depleting ground nutrients from growing cotton. Or John Deere who invented the plow.
They consider slave women more valuable than slave men because slave women are reproductive and the reproduction of slaves can contribute to money for the planters.
