and, one day in early spring, when the rivers had melted, the father set forth with his little son in a teliezshka drawn by a sorrel steed of the kind known to horsy folk as a soroka, and having as coachman the diminutive hunchback who, father of the only serf family belonging to the elder Chichikov, served as general factotum in the Chichikov establishment.
Gidaria, berriz, gizontxo konkordun bat zen, Txitxikoven aitak etxeko zeregin gehientsuenez arduratzeko zuen jopu-familia bakarraren burua bera. Bi eguneko bidaia egin zuten, mikak eramanik;