But each year, with money made working summers on his father's sugar-beet farm, he had done the best he could, and on Christmas morning he had always hurried to the Clutter house carrying a package that his sisters had helped him wrap and that he hoped would surprise Nancy and delight her.
Baina urtero, bere aitak azukre-erremolatxa lantzeko zeukan etxaldean lan eginez, ahalegina egiten zuen, eta Eguberri goizean Clutterren etxera joaten zen bere arrebek biltzen lagundutako paketea aldean zuela Nancy txunditu eta txoraturik uzteko esperantzatan.