He ate blackberries along the hedges, minded the geese with a long switch, went haymaking during harvest, ran about in the woods, played hop-scotch under the church porch on rainy days, and at great fetes begged the beadle to let him toll the bells, that he might hang all his weight on the long rope and feel himself borne upward by it in its swing.
Arroiletan barrena masustak jaten zituen, puloiak zaintzen zituen arbazta batez, belar iharra eskuaretzen zuen, basoetan zehar korrika ibiltzen zen, euri egunetan elizatariko aterpean txingotan jolas egiten zuen, eta, jaiegun handietan, sakristauari otoi eskatzen zion kanpaiak jotzen utz ziezaion, bere gorputz osoa soka handitik dilindatu eta hark bere kulunkan eramanik sentitzearren.