Squeaking in every crooked wheel, off they drove, and with them went my prayer that they'd be ambushed, cut to pieces, burned that same day, the way you see in war pictures, supply column wiped out for ever and ever, with its escort of M.P. gorillas, horse soldiers, and lantern-swinging noncoms, with its work details, its sacks of lentils and flour that would never be cooked and never be seen, again.
Egunsentitik ihesi, berriz lotzen zen bideari konboia, bere zirrika oker guziez kirrinka eginaz, eta berekin nere opa zeraman, ustekabean harrapatuko ahal zuten, txikitu, erre, gero, egun hartan bertan, grabatu militarretan ikusten den bezala, lapurtua, konboia, santa sekulako, bere ekipaje guziarekin, jendarme gorila haiek-eta, ferrak-eta, linternakiko txuskeroak, eta barrenean ekarri ahala zekartzan morrontza, dilista eta beste labore-klase inoiz ezin egosi zirenak, eta ez ahal genuen sekula berriz ikusiko.