One of them was that of a woman in a mobcap with features as long and as narrow as a cucumber, and the other that of a man with features as broad and as short as the Moldavian pumpkins (known as gorlianki) whereof balallaiki-the species of light, two-stringed instrument which constitutes the pride and the joy of the gay young fellow of twenty as he sits winking and smiling at the white-necked, white-bosomed maidens who have gathered to listen to his low-pitched tinkling-are fashioned.
eta Txitxikovek esan zion ezen, zuzena izanik ere, lege hori, neurri batean behintzat, eragozpen larria zela lurjabe askorentzat, zeren eta zergak ordainarazten baitzizkien nekazari haiek bizirik baleude bezala, eta bera, etxeko nagusia estimu handitan zeukanez, prest zegoela betebehar benetan astun hori bere gain hartzeko.