The cattle, who had lost all but a few patches of their winter coats, began to low in the meadows; the crooked-legged lambs began to play round their bleating mothers, who were losing their wool; swift-footed children began to run along the quickly-drying paths marked with imprints of bare feet, the merry voices of women who were bleaching their linen began to chatter by the ponds, and the axes of peasants, getting ready their wooden ploughs and harrows, clicked in the yards.
Megbődűlt a réteken legelésző s helyenkint még téli szőrrel takart marha, bégető és gyapjukat hullató anyjuk mellett görbelábú báránykák futkostak, a tó partján jókedvű asszonynépség szava pattogott, az udvarok táján nagyokat döngtek az ekéket és boronákat tatarozó parasztok szekerczéi.