When Lurgan was told the tale later, he mourned aloud that he could not have been in the place of the stubborn, inattentive coolies, who with grass mats over their heads and the raindrops puddling in their foot-prints, waited on the weather.
egia esatera alegia. Gero, kontatu zionean Lurgani istorioa, kexuka aritu zen ezin izan zuelako cooli egoskor, arduragabeen lekuan egon, buru gainean belarrezko alfonbratxoak zituztela eta euri-tantak putzu bihurtzen oin-urratsetan, noiz atertuko zain.