The lads, dressed like their papas, seemed uncomfortable in their new clothes (many that day hand-sewed their first pair of boots), and by their sides, speaking never a work, wearing the white dress of their first communion lengthened for the occasion were some big girls of fourteen or sixteen, cousins or elder sisters no doubt, rubicund, bewildered, their hair greasy with rose pomade, and very much afraid of dirtying their gloves.
Mutikoek, beren aitak bezala jantzirik, beren jantzi berriengatik deseroso ziruditen (askok estrinatu ere egun horretan egin baitzuten beren bizitzako lehen bota-parea), eta hauen ondoan ikusten zen, txintik esan gabe, beren lehen jaunartzeko jantzia abagu honetarako luzatua soinean, hamalau edo hamasei urteko zenbait neskato handi, haien lehengusina edo arreba zaharrenak segur aski, musugorri, kikildurik, arrosa-ukenduz ileak gantzuturik, eta beren eskuxorroak zikintzeko beldurraren beldurrez.