Well, just as I was looking at the Major, waiting for him to come up, he stumbled with his lame leg over a branch of gorse, and in recovering himself he let go his hold of the leash, and in an instant there was the beast of a dog flying down the hillside in my direction.
Or, comme je regardais venir le major, et que j'attendais son arrivée, il buta de sa jambe blessée par-dessus une branche de genêt; en reprenant son équilibre, il lâcha la courroie et aussitôt voilà ce maudit animal parti à fond de train de mon côté, au bas de la côte.