No little Gradgrind had ever associated a cow in a field with that famous cow with the crumpled horn who tossed the dog who worried the cat who killed the rat who ate the malt, or with that yet more famous cow who swallowed Tom Thumb:
Gradgrindar gaztetxoetariko inork ez zuen behin ere lotu zelaiko behi bat behi ospetsu horrekin, alegia, malta jan zuen arratoia hil zuen katua xaxatu zuen zakurrari oldartu zitzaion behi adar zimurtuarekin, edota are behi ospetsuago horrekin, Tom Thumb irentsi zuenarekin;