It happened in the August of '99, or it may have been in the early days of September; but I remember that we heard the cuckoo in Patcham Wood, and that Jim said that perhaps it was the last of him. I was still at school, but Jim had left, he being nigh sixteen and I thirteen.
La chose arriva en août 1799, ou peut-être bien dans les premiers jours de septembre, mais je me rappelle que nous entendions le coucou dans le bois de Patcham et que, d'après Jim, c'était sans doute pour la dernière fois.