They were eloquent in their distress; but they presently discovered that the fire had eaten so far up under the great log it had been built against (where it curved upward and separated itself from the ground), that a handbreadth or so of it had escaped wetting; so they patiently wrought until, with shreds and bark gathered from the under sides of sheltered logs, they coaxed the fire to burn again.
Foren eloqüents en llur desastre; pero al cap de poc descobriren que el foc havia rosegat tan amunt de la soca contra la qual havia estat bastit (alla on ella s'encorbava cap en l'aire i es separava de terra), que un pam, si fa no fa, s'havia escapat de la mullena: així, doncs, maldaren pacientment fins que amb vilordes i escorces que arreplegaren de sota els flancs de les soques aixoplugades engaliparen el foc a cremar de bell nou.