Aber bald zog er ihn enttäuscht wieder zurück; nicht nur, daß ihm das Essen wegen seiner heiklen linken Seite Schwierigkeiten machte - und er konnte nur essen, wenn der ganze Körper schnaufend mitarbeitete - , so schmeckte ihm überdies die Milch, die sonst sein Lieblingsgetränk war, und die ihm gewiß die Schwester deshalb hereingestellt hatte, gar nicht, ja er wandte sich fast mit Widerwillen von dem Napf ab und kroch in die Zimmermitte zurück.
But he soon drew his head back again in disappointment; not only did the pain in his tender left side make it difficult to eat the food - he was only able to eat if his whole body worked together as a snuffling whole - but the milk did not taste at all nice. Milk like this was normally his favourite drink, and his sister had certainly left it there for him because of that, but he turned, almost against his own will, away from the dish and crawled back into the centre of the room.