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.
Triscaban patizambos corderitos al lado de sus madres, perdidos ya los vellones de su lana, y ágiles chiquillos corrían por los senderos húmedos, dejando en ellos las huellas de sus pies descalzos. En las albercas se oía el rumor de las voces de las mujeres, muy ocupadas en el lavado de su colada, a la vez que en los patios resonaba el golpe de las hachas de los campesinos, que reparaban sus aperos y sus arados.