Gently swayed by the ambling pace of his good little horse, and drinking in the warm smell with the freshness of snow and air in it, he rode through the forest over the crumbling sinking snow that melted at each footstep, and rejoiced at the sight of each one of his trees with its swelling buds and the moss reviving on its bark. When he had passed the forest, a vast expanse of velvety green unrolled before him without a single bare spot, and only sprinkled here and there in the hollows with patches of unmelted snow.
Buzgón poroszkáló lovacskáján egyenletesen imbolyogva, s a hó és a levegő frisseségével vegyes langyos illatot teli tüdővel élvezve, mikor a szétfolyó lábnyomokkal teleszórt, s itt-ott behorpadt és omlós hóréteggel borított úton keresztülment az erdőn, minden egyes mohostörzsű s duzzadt rügyekkel pompázó fájának megörült.