It might have seemed to him a waste of pomp and ammunition to kill a bug with a battery of artillery, but there seemed nothing incongruous about the getting up such an expensive thunderstorm as this to knock the turf from under an insect like himself.
Li hauria semblat un excés de pompa i de municions de matar una xinxa amb una bateria de canons; pero no trobava res d'incongruent en esmerçar una tamborinada com aquella per sacsejar l'herba sota un insecte com ell.