And right through the crowd, from the distant crossway, an army of street-sweepers was advancing in file down the road, the brooms swishing rhythmically, while scavengers provided with forks pitched the collected refuse into tumbrels, which at intervals of a score of paces halted with a noise like the chattering of broken pots.
Eta, nahaspilaren erdian, kale garbitzaile pila bat hurbiltzen ari zen bidegurutzearen bukaeratik, lerroan jarrita, erratzei kolpe neurritsuz eragiten zietela; eta, haien atzetik, zabor biltzaileek zakarrak botatzen zituzten artagabe hogei pausotik hogei pausora gelditzen ziren iraulki orga batzuetara, zarata handia ateraz, baxerak hausten ariko balira bezala.