He laughed as he heard it for it made him think of McCann, and he saw him a squat figure in a shooting jacket and breeches and with a fair goatee, standing in the wind at Hopkins' corner, and heard him say:
Barre egin zuen entzutean, McCann ekarri baitzion gogora, eta ikusi ere egin zuen figura kuzkurtu bat ehizarako txaketa eta britxekin eta kokots-bizar horail batekin, Hopkinseneko izkinan haizetan zutik, honela zioela: