that the first of these expedients was utterly rejected by all the Houyhnhnms who had ever seen me at his house or their own; for they alleged, that because I had some rudiments of reason, added to the natural pravity of those animals, it was to be feared I might be able to seduce them into the woody and mountainous parts of the country, and bring them in troops by night to destroy the Houyhnhnms' cattle, as being naturally of the ravenous kind, and averse from labour."
Konponbide hauetako lehenari uko biribila eman ziotela inoiz ugazabaren edo beren etxean ikusia ninduten houyhnhnm guztiek; zeren eta, alegatzen omen zuten, adimen-aztarna batzuk banituenez, yahoo haien berezko gaiztakeriaz bat eginda, beldur izatekoa zela herrialdeko alde basotsu eta menditsuetara eramango ote nituen eta, gero, gauez houyhnhnmen ganadua suntsitzera ekarriko ote nituen taldeka, jangura handikoak baitziren berez eta lanerako gogogabeak.