Joining their horny hands over the rough table at which they sat, they wished each other Merry Christmas in their can of grog; and one of them: the elder, too, with his face all damaged and scarred with hard weather, as the figure-head of an old ship might be:
Egur zakarreko mahaiaren gainean eskuak lotuz bi gizonek elkarri Eguberri on bat desira zioten grog-ez beteriko euren latorrizko edalontzien aurrean; eta hauetako batek, adinduenak, aurpegia eguraldiaren errukigabetasunaren ondorioz hondatu eta seinalatua zuela, abesti kementsu bati ekin zion, galerna bera bezain kementsua.