Or it is the same figure, a year or so gone over, in his first hard hat (ah, that was a day!), already on the road, a fullfledged traveller for the family firm, equipped with an orderbook, a scented handkerchief (not for show only), his case of bright trinketware (alas! a thing now of the past!) and a quiverful of compliant smiles for this or that halfwon housewife reckoning it out upon her fingertips or for a budding virgin, shyly acknowledging (but the heart? tell me!) his studied baisemoins.
Edo ber iduria da, urte bete edo iraganik, lehen gapelu gotorra jauntzirik (ai!, hura izan zen eguna!), jadanik bidera jalgia, familiaren entrepresako saltzaile konplitua, kaieraz horniturik, musuzapi lurrintsua (ez soilik erakustekoa), purtxileriazko salgai distiranten kutxa (ondikotz!, aspaldiko gauza orai) eta huntarako edo hartarako irri adeitsu andana bat erhiez kontua egiten duen etxekoandere erdi bereganatu hunendako edo puntzela loratu berriarendako, herabeti eskertzen baitazkio (bihotza zer, ordea? Erran!) bere eskumuin neurritsuak.