The Christmas holidays were approaching; and it became at once clear to him that the very thing which he wanted was a representation with real figures of one of those pictures of the scene in the stable,-a sacred exhibition such as at this holy season good Christians delight to offer to the divine Mother and her Child, of the manner in which she, in her seeming lowliness, was honored first by the shepherds and afterwards by kings.
Hurbiltzen ari ziren Eguberri-jaiak eta, supituki, argi eta garbi ulertu zuen koadro bizien irudikapen haiek jaiotzatik, santutasun-garai haietan Jainkoaren Amari eta Semeari eskaintzen zitzaizkien irudikapen jaieratsu haietatik sortuak zirela, beren itxurazko apaltasunean aurrena artzainek eta gero erregeek gurtu zituztenez.