middleaged men, old women, children, women dead in childbirth, men with beards, baldheaded businessmen, consumptive girls with little sparrows' breasts. All the year round he prayed the same thing over them all and shook water on top of them:
garerdiko gizonak, atsoak, umeak, erditzean hildako emakumeak, txolarre-bularra duten neska hetikadunak, urte guztian zehar gauza bera errezatzen guztien inguruan, eta haien gainera ura zipriztintzen: