he'd be locked up for fourteen days and the cabbage and rotten potatoes, which they gave us for mess rations, would ruin his stomach. He said he'd give us all his mess rations and army bread: it wasn't worth having and we could share it among ourselves or have it in turns.
Baina morroi zikoitz hark ezetz, bi aste egongo zela kaiolan, eta sabela izorratuko zitzaiola jateko ematen zizkiguten Bruselako aza eta patata ustelekin; bere anoa eta ogia ez zitzaizkiola interesatzen, eman egingo zizkigula, partekatu edo txandaka jan genitzakeela.