With his hands on his hips he often mimicked Grandmother Mehudin in her anger, and at these times the coarsest and vilest expressions would stream from his lips in a voice of crystalline purity that might have belonged to some little chorister chanting the Ave Maria.
Orduan, "urdangak", "motxinberoak", "segi hemendik hire gizonari bibolina jotzera", "zenbatean eskaintzen dun hire haragi hori?" igarotzen ziren haren ume ahots gardenean zehar, koru batean abesten ariko balitz bezala.