Now the school was closed; and all the children were running about, there was a swarm of little creatures shouting and tumbling and fighting; while those fathers who were not at the public-house were resting in groups of three or four, crouching on their heels as they did in the mine, smoking their pipes with an occasional word in the shelter of a wall.
Maintenant, l'école était fermée, toute la marmaille traînait, c'était un grouillement de petits etres piaulant, se roulant, se battant; tandis que les peres, qui n'étaient pas a l'estaminet, restaient par groupes de trois ou quatre, accroupis sur leurs talons comme au fond de la mine, fumant des pipes avec des paroles rares, a l'abri d'un mur.