At that moment our hunter returned, who had been seeing his horses provided for; that is to say, he had economically let them loose in the fields, where the poor beasts had to content themselves with the scanty moss they could pull off the rocks and a few meagre sea weeds, and the next day they would not fail to come of themselves and resume the labours of the previous day.
En ce moment rentra le chasseur, qui venait de pourvoir à la nourriture des chevaux, c'est-à-dire qu'il les avait économiquement lâchés à travers champs; les pauvres bêtes devaient se contenter de brouter la mousse rare des rochers, quelques fucus peu nourrissants, et le lendemain elles ne manqueraient pas de venir d'elles-mêmes reprendre le travail de la veille.