It evidently wanted to go on, and prognosticate drought, and water famine, and sunstroke, and simooms, and such things, but the peg prevented it, and it had to be content with pointing to the mere commonplace "very dry."
Je sentais qu’il aurait aimé aller plus loin, annoncer sécheresse, disette d’eau, insolation, simoun2, et autres agréments, mais le butoir l’en empecha, et il se contenta d’indiquer un fort banal « tres sec ».