Those petty panics, when a whole neighborhood in pajamas would pick up candles and vanish, cackling and clucking, into the bowels of the earth to escape a peril that was almost entirely imaginary, showed up the terrifying futility of those people, who behaved by turns like frightened hens and sheepish sheep.
Izualdi kaxkar haietan, auzo bat osorik pijama erantzi gabe aurretik kandela zuela barrenaldeetan murgiltzen zenean txioka arrisku ia zeharo alegiazko batetik ihesi, horietan ageri zen klaro jende horien txepelkeria tristagarria, noiz oilo ikaratu, noiz ardi gizen eta otxan.