He said that was big enough; but then, as I had taken no care of it, and it had lain two or three and twenty years there, the sun had so split and dried it, that it was rotten.
Dijo que era lo suficientemente grande pero, como no lo había cuidado en veintidós o veintitrés años, el sol lo había astillado y secado y parecía estar algo podrido.