While Carmencita’s father locked the door of the basement, I began to wheel the hormigonera up the slope, not looking behind me, and suddenly there came a hellacious crash, and there, on its side, lay the hormigonera. One of its wheels had come off, and listing too far to starboard it had toppled over. I told you didn’t I, that the street was very steep? I turned around, just in time to see the wheel gathering speed, trundling down the slope. It was then that I first promulgated Flower’s Law Of... Sign in to see full entry.