I was so anxious to see it kept entire, lest the goats should break through, that I never left off till, with infinite labour, I had stuck the outside of the hedge so full of small stakes, and so near to one another, that it was rather a pale than a hedge, and there was scarce room to put a hand through between them; which afterwards, when those stakes grew, as they all did in the next rainy season, made the enclosure strong like a wall, indeed stronger than any wall.
Mivel ezt nem engedhettem meg, szinte végeláthatatlan munkával, apró karók segítségével duzzasztottam mind sűrűbbre a sövénykerítést, olyannyira, hogy már inkább falra emlékeztetett. Annyi rés sem volt rajta, hogy a kezem átférjen.