Then they knocked up a little place for him at the bottom of the garden, about quarter of a mile from the house, and made him take the machine down there when he wanted to work it; and sometimes a visitor would come to the house who knew nothing of the matter, and they would forget to tell him all about it, and caution him, and he would go out for a stroll round the garden and suddenly get within earshot of those bagpipes, without being prepared for it, or knowing what it was.
Mais parfois arrivait un visiteur qui n’était pas informé et qu’on oubliait de prévenir. Que d’aventure il allât faire un tour dans le jardin, il risquait de se trouver soudain a portée d’oreille de l’instrument sans s’y attendre ni savoir ce que c’était.