There were also some people of the smaller middle class, from distant parts of the city, who had come down at four o'clock in the morning to buy a really fresh fish, and had ended by allowing some enormous lot, costing from forty to fifty francs, to be knocked down to them, with the result that they would be obliged to spend the whole day in getting their friends and acquaintances to take the surplus off their hands.
Burgesak ere baziren, auzo urrunetako errentadunak, goizeko lauretan arrain freskoa erostera etorri eta azkenean ia oharkabe izugarrizko sorta baten jabe egiten zirenak, berrogei edo berrogeita hamar liberaren arrain saila; egun guztia pasatu behar gero, bere ezaguerako pertsonen artean arraina partitzen. Bat-batean, jendea bultzaka hasten zen alboetatik.