I was smoking my pipe quietly by my dismantled steamer, and saw them all cutting capers in the light, with their arms lifted high, when the stout man with moustaches came tearing down to the river, a tin pail in his hand, assured me that everybody was 'behaving splendidly, splendidly,' dipped about a quart of water and tore back again.
Ni neure pipa lasai-lasai erretzen ari nintzen neure bapore desmantelatuaren kontra, eta argitasunean denak itzulipurdika ikusi nituen, besoak gora, eta orduantxe, bibotedun gizon lodia arrapaladan jaitsi zen ibairaino, eskuan eztainuzko ontzi bat zuela; segurtatu zidan mundu guztia "primeran, baina primeran" portatzen ari zela; bete zuen urez galoi laurden bat-edo, eta atzera joan zen arrapaladan.