A mesura que s'ana atansant, apaivaga la seva celeritat, es posa al mig del carrer, es decanta d'allo més a estribor, i orsa feixugament, amb laboriosa pompa i minuciositat, perque personificava el «Big Missouri», i es creia tenir un calat de nou peus d'aigua.
As he drew near, he slackened speed, took the middle of the street, leaned far over to starboard and rounded to ponderously and with laborious pomp and circumstance--for he was personating the Big Missouri, and considered himself to be drawing nine feet of water.