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.
Amikor ezeket a nap ereje kiégette, nagyon óvatosan vittem őket a lakásomba, mintha a legdrágább porcelán díszedények lettek volna, s otthon külön a számukra font két kosárba tettem azokat. A korsó és kosár közötti hézagot árpa- és rizsszalmával tömtem ki.