I was learning to clap my teeth smartly before my heart flew out, when I shaved by a fluke some infernal sly old snag that would have ripped the life out of the tin-pot steamboat and drowned all the pilgrims;
hortzak kolpetik estutzen ikasten ari nintzen, bihotzak bularretik ihes egin ez ziezadan, txiripaz libratzen nuenean estalitako oztopo zahar zitalen bat, zeinak latorrizko baporeari bizia erauzi eta erromes guztiak itoko baitzituen;