As he had been for a time accustomed to wear nightcaps, his handkerchief would not keep down over his ears, so that his hair in the morning was all tumbled pell-mell about his face and whitened with the feathers of the pillow, whose strings came untied during the night.
Denbora luzez algodoizko txanoaren ohitura izana zuenez, bere burukozapia ez zitzaion belarrietara atxikirik mantentzen; beraz ileak, goizerako, aurpegira erortzen zitzaizkion nahas-mahas eta bere burukoaren lumatxaz zuriturik, honen xingolak askatu egiten baitziren gauean zehar.