While they were dressing their wounds, I tried to make a hole in the thing with the spiky end of the hitcher, and the hitcher slipped and jerked me out between the boat and the bank into two feet of muddy water, and the tin rolled over, uninjured, and broke a teacup.
Mentre essi si medicavano, tentai di aprire un buco nella latta con l’estremità aguzza della gaffa; ma la gaffa mi scivolò di mano e mi scagliò fra la barca e la sponda in sessanta centimetri d’acqua fangosa, mentre la scatola si metteva a rotolare, illesa, rompendo una tazza.