In the street I had chosen, really the narrowest of all, no wider than a good-sized brook in our part of the world and extraordinarily dirty, damp and dark at the bottom, there were so many other people, big and little, thin and fat, that they carried me along with them like a shadow.
Aukeratu nuen kalean, guzietan meharrena baitzen egiaz, gure herriko erreka haundixkoa bezalakoa nonbaitor, eta hondoan krakazu askoa, heze askoa, ilunpez betea, han hainbeste jende zebilen lehendik ere, haundi eta ttiki, ze berekin eraman ninduten itzala banintz bezala.