"In these tragic days," cried Professor Bestombes, who never missed a trick, "it is the poet's highest duty to revive our taste for the epic!
"Gure poeten goreneko eginbidea da, bizi ditugun ordu tragikootan, deklaratu zuen Bestombes doktoreak, beti zer non harrapatu ibiltzen baitzen, Epopeiaren gustoa berriz ematea!