He said that bringing home that trout had saved him from a whacking, and that even his school-master had said it was worth the rule-of-three and practice put together.
Egli disse che l’aver portato a casa quella trota gli aveva risparmiata una solenne bastonatura, e che anche il maestro gli aveva detto che la trota valeva la regola del tre e tutta la computisteria messe insieme.