Without venturing for Scrooge quite as hardily as this, I don't mind calling on you to believe that he was ready for a good broad field of strange appearances, and that nothing between a baby and rhinoceros would have astonished him very much. Now, being prepared for almost anything, he was not by any means prepared for nothing;
Scroogeren kasuan hainbeste esatea arriskatu gabe, ez zait axola, une horretan, prest zegoela sinets ezazuela eskatzea, agerpen bitxi kolekzio handi bati aurre egiteko, eta umetxo eta errinozeronte baten artean dagoen guztiaren aurrean harrituta ez geratzeko. Baina, ia guztirako prest egonda, ez zegoen ezertarako prestatua;