As a boy he had imagined the reins by which horses are driven as slender silken bands and it shocked him to feel at Stradbrooke the greasy leather of harness.
Umetan, zaldiak gidatzeko erabiltzen diren hedeak setazko banda finak zirela imajinatzen zuen eta desilusionatu egin zen Stradbrooken uhalen larru koipetsua ikustean.