Their muscular hands grasped the strung handle; their entire bodies were bent forward, as though to slay an ox. And this went on for hours, from one end of the plain to the other, over ditches and hedges and the slopes of the road, the low walls of the enclosures.
Les mains musculeuses serraient le manche ficelé, le corps entier se lançait, comme pour assommer un boeuf; et cela pendant des heures, d'un bout a l'autre de la plaine, par-dessus les fossés, les haies, les talus des routes, les murs bas des enclos.