I had tortoise or turtle enough, but now and then one was as much as I could put to any use: I had timber enough to have built a fleet of ships; and I had grapes enough to have made wine, or to have cured into raisins, to have loaded that fleet when it had been built.
Volt sok teknőcöm és teknősbékám, de csak néha ejtettem el egyet, amikor szükségem volt a húsára. Annyi faanyaggal rendelkeztem, amiből hajóflotta épülhetett volna, a szőlőmből pedig annyi bort vagy mazsolát nyerhettem, ami megtölthette volna flottám hajóit.