And so he was not the slightest bit surprised when he saw behind the little lake a white-washed house on which a 'chicken' was hanging (the name given in some places to the Austrian 'eaglet') and a gendarme walking out of it like a spider guarding its web.
Gero, ordea, ez zen ezertaz harritu, etxe zuriz pintatu batetik jendarme bat atera zenean, amarauna zaintzen duen armiarma balitz bezala. Urmael baten atzean zegoen etxe horretatik zintzilik, oilo bat zegoen (inon esaten zuten bezala, arranotxo bat).