The distributor, that traveling cronista

Along with the warehouse articles took histories of all type

CASTELLI. - The Buenosairean campaign counted during an important period with an original form of peculiar and charismatic, the almost always distributing one commercialization in charge of.

It left from the town closest to fulfill an itinerary pre-established that, because of the perecedero of some of the merchandises that transported, could not surpass the 15 days.

The distributor sold and bought. He sold all the elements of warehouse that, by the possibility of the frequent supplying, the field man had incorporated to his diet - vermicelli, oil, sugar, coffee, you ' -, in addition to traditional like grass, cake, and much more new others like sponge cakes, galletitas and naranjadas articles. And he bought leathers, chickens, eggs, turkeys, and ducks, that traveled in a hung cage of the inferior back part of the voluminous car thrown by a pair of horses, as long as the state of the ways did not make necessary that it tied two tapemen and some lateral one to him.

When writing on him I cannot avoid the personal reference. I have the memory together with the happy years of the childhood in the field, and that happiness is related to as small things as the arrival of the distributor. It was almost one celebration. It arrived at my house shortly before the entrance of the sun, untied the caballada one slowly and it lowered of the car the vices - peculiar denomination with which the field man describes to warehouse articles that the owner of house solicitd to him by means of a list that gave to him in hand. In that car the treats arrived with which this personage gained our unconditional friendship and admiration.

In the wheel of it already kills made the other function, the one of traveling cronista, that is the one that bases its name acabadamente. Because he distributed the news of diverse characteristics: obituary, of ill people, transferred, dismissed or affected by the varied vicissitudes, that turn to somebody reason for commentaries.

Also if the circumstances and the audience allowed it it could incursionar in slippery lands of the gadget. From an ironic and graceful speech we found out whichever deceit, abandonment or reconciliation was generated in the community.

On the following day it undertook the march towards the position closest to repeat the ceremony. Deposit taker of messages, orders or any other proceeding became that did not demand the presence of the holder. During months, it used to be for many settlers one of the few bonds with the urban centers.

With the appearance of the automobile and its generalization in the campaign, the presence of the distributor was anachronistic. Forties due to that relation of confidence established with their clients survived until the fifty or. In his last times it changed to the car by some truck or light truck. Nevertheless his but it was decreed. The communications, the routes and the migration from the rural areas moved it definitively, extinguishing with him that irreplaceable social function.

The author passed away in March of 2002. In his last times he wrote on rural subjects.