The sun had shone out in the evening, and I had come down with my fishing-rod (for I had promised Boy Jim to go with him to the mill-stream), when what should I see but a post-chaise with two smoking horses at the gate, and there in the open door of it were my mother's black skirt and her little feet jutting out, with two blue arms for a waist-belt, and all the rest of her buried in the chaise.
J'étais descendu avec ma ligne à pêche, car j'avais promis à Jim de laccompagner au ruisseau du moulin, quand tout à coup, j'aperçus devant la porte une chaise de poste et deux chevaux fumants. La portière était ouverte et j'y voyais la jupe noire de ma mère et ses petits pieds qui dépassaient.