A captain who chanced to pass that way with his company had carried him off from our village when he was a boy of about twelve years, and now twelve years later the young man came back in a soldier's uniform, arrayed in a thousand colours, and all over glass trinkets and fine steel chains.
Llevóle de nuestro lugar, siendo muchacho de hasta doce años, un capitán que con su compañía por allí acertó a pasar, y volvió el mozo de allí a otros doce, vestido a la soldadesca, pintado con mil colores, lleno de mil dijes de cristal y sutiles cadenas de acero.