Em fa llevar a la mateixa hora cada matí; em fa rentar; em pentinen d'una manera que esgarrifa; no em volen deixar dormir en el cobert de fusta. He de portar els vestits condemnats que m'ofeguen: sembla que no deixin passar gens d'aire, tanmateix; i faig goig d'una manera tan endiastrada que no puc tirar-me a terra, ni ajeure'm, ni rodolar enlloc. Que no m'he escapolit per una porta de celler, fa… bé, jo diria que fa anys.
She makes me get up just at the same time every morning; she makes me wash, they comb me all to thunder; she won't let me sleep in the woodshed; I got to wear them blamed clothes that just smothers me, Tom; they don't seem to any air git through 'em, somehow; and they're so rotten nice that I can't set down, nor lay down, nor roll around anywher's;