It bubbled out into a pool and then fell a hundred feet to another pool, and this one, overflowing, dropped again, so that it continued, down and down, until it came to the rubble of the upland, and there it disappeared altogether. There wasn't much left of it then anyway, for every time it fell over an escarpment the thirsty air drank it, and it splashed from the pools to the dry vegetation.
Putzu batera zurrust egiten zuen, gero ehun oinbete jaisteko beste putzu batera, eta putzu honek, gainezka egin eta ura isurtzen zuen, behealdera beti, desagertu arte. Edonola ere, ez zuen gehiegi irauten, aire egartiak edaten zuelako mailetatik jausi ahala, eta putzuetatik landaretza ihartura jausten zelako.