"It's the earth that rests on three fishes, sir," the peasant would explain reassuringly, in a patriarchal-magnanimous singsong voice, "but against ours, that is, the mir, as everyone knows, it's the landowner's will;
-Lurra da, jauna, hiru arrain euskarri dituena-argitzen zion mujikak, lasai asko, onginahizko doinu patriarkal gozo batez-, mundua, hau da, gure mundua, jaunen borondatearen mende dago, jakina denez;