The cattle, who had lost all but a few patches of their winter coats, began to low in the meadows; the crooked-legged lambs began to play round their bleating mothers, who were losing their wool; swift-footed children began to run along the quickly-drying paths marked with imprints of bare feet, the merry voices of women who were bleaching their linen began to chatter by the ponds, and the axes of peasants, getting ready their wooden ploughs and harrows, clicked in the yards.
Заревела на выгонах облезшая, только местами еще не перелинявшая скотина, заиграли кривоногие ягнята вокруг теряющих волну блеющих матерей, побежали быстроногие ребята по просыхающим, с отпечатками босых ног тропинкам, затрещали на пруду веселые голоса баб с холстами, и застучали по дворам топоры мужиков, налаживающих сохи и бороны.