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.
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.