She had four dinky sets with awfully pretty stitchery, three garments and nighties extra, and each set slotted with different coloured ribbons, rosepink, pale blue, mauve and peagreen, and she aired them herself and blued them when they came home from the wash and ironed them and she had a brickbat to keep the iron on because she wouldn't trust those washerwomen as far as she'd see them scorching the things.
Lau pare apain zeuzkan, brodatu izugarri politekin, hiru azpi-gona eta lo-atorra estra, eta bakoitzak margo desberdineko xingolak zeuzkan irekiguneetan sartuta, arrosak, urdin argiak, malbak, eta ilar-berdeak; berak egurasten zituen, eta anil-uretan jartzen, lixiba etxeratzen zutenean, eta berak lisatzen zituen, are adreilu bat zeukan, lisaburdina gainean edukitzeko, ez baitzen fidatzen lixiba-egileez, ikusiak baitzituen arropa kiskaltzen.