He repeated each different movement with the regularity of clockwork, the blows from the knife-handle falling with a monotonous tick-tack as he broke the birds' skulls, and his hand working backwards and forwards like a pendulum as he took up the living pigeons on one side and laid them down dead on the other. Soon, moreover, he worked with increasing rapidity, gloating over the massacre with glistening eyes, squatting there like a huge delighted bull-dog enjoying the sight of slaughtered vermin.
lehenbizi, giderraren tiki-taka, burezurrak puskatzen zituenean; gero, eskuaren keinu orekatua, animalia biziak alde batetik hartu eta beste aldean hilik uzten zituenean. Pixkanaka-pixkanaka, ordea, Marjolinek gero eta agudoago ziharduen, triskantzak pozturik, begiak ñirñir, kokoriko eserita izugarrizko dobatxakur alai baten antzera.