Florent, who was a good penman, set him copies in large hand and round hand on slips of paper. The words he chose were very long and took up the whole line, and he evinced a marked partiality for such expressions as "tyrannically," "liberticide," "unconstitutional," and "revolutionary." At times also he made the boy copy such sentences as these:
Florentek ereduak prestatzen zituen bere letra ederrarekin; paper zerrendak ziren, non, hizki lodiz eta ertainez, hitz luze-luzeak idazten baitzituen, lerro osoa betez. Gustuko zituen "tiranokeriaz, askatasun hiltzailea, konstituzio aurkakoa, iraultzailea" eta horrelako hitzak; edo bestela, honelako esaldiak kopiarazten zizkion umeari: