I had tortoise or turtle enough, but now and then one was as much as I could put to any use: I had timber enough to have built a fleet of ships; and I had grapes enough to have made wine, or to have cured into raisins, to have loaded that fleet when it had been built.
Erano a mia disposizione quante testuggini avessi volute; ma d’una sola a quando a quando io poteva cibarmi; aveva quanto legname sarebbe bastato a mettere in mare un’armata navale, e grappoli d’uva quanti ci volevano per far vino e provvedernela.