open your mouth as little as you possibly can; but if a serjeant or an officer asks you questions so that you have to answer, say that you've been lying ill in the house of a peasant who took you in out of charity when you were shivering with fever in a ditch by the roadside.
hala ere, ahalik eta gutxiena zabaldu ahoa, baina, ezinbestean, zalditeriako ofizialorderen bat edo ofizialen bat galdezka hasten bazaik, eta nahitaez erantzun beharrean gertatzen bahaiz, esaiek gaixorik egon haizela baserritar batenean, hark errukiz hartu baihinduen etxean, bideko lubaki batean hi sukarrez dardarka aurkitu ondoren.