Thus shaken up, the old instrument, whose strings buzzed, could be heard at the other end of the village when the window was open, and often the bailiff's clerk, passing along the highroad bare-headed and in list slippers, stopped to listen, his sheet of paper in his hand.
Hark horrela eraginik, tresna zahar hura, zeinaren hariak dardarikatu egiten baitziren, herrian barrena azkeneko muturreraino ere entzuten zen, baldin eta leihoa irekita bazegoen, eta sarritan herriko aguazila, burutsik eta oski-erresta errepidean aurrera zihoala, hura entzuten geratzen zen, bere paper-orria eskuan.