However, as the sun baked these two very dry and hard, I lifted them very gently up, and set them down again in two great wicker baskets, which I had made on purpose for them, that they might not break; and as between the pot and the basket there was a little room to spare, I stuffed it full of the rice and barley straw; and these two pots being to stand always dry I thought would hold my dry corn, and perhaps the meal, when the corn was bruised.
Pure sconci com’erano questi due vasi, poichè il sole gli ebbe seccati e induriti, gli alzai pian piano da terra e li collocai entro due grandi canestri di vimini fatti da me a posta per contenerli e difenderli ad un tempo dal rompersi; poi siccome tra il vaso e il canestro rimaneva un vano, lo colmai con paglia d’orzo e di riso pensando che, se questi due vasi si mantenevano asciutti, avrebbero contenuto il mio grano e fors’anche la mia farina, quando il primo sarebbe macinato.