From a child this Frank had been a donought that his father, a headborough, who could ill keep him to school to learn his letters and the use of the globes, matriculated at the university to study the mechanics but he took the bit between his teeth like a raw colt and was more familiar with the justiciary and the parish beadle than with his volumes.
Haurretarik Frank hori zen alfer zotz bat izana, zeinen aitak, herrizain bat, nekez edukirik eskolan letrak eta astrolabioaren maneiuak ikastekotz, matrikulatu baitzuen bekanikako estudioetan baina hark hartu zuen ahoko hura hortz artean potro lotsagabe batek bezala eta bazter egotzi zuen, eta ezagunak zituen jandarma buru eta herrizainak bere liburuak bainoago.