Capitolo 58
doesn't rise at all.
"You/he/she cannot be the moon", said Jonas "for him now a quarter of an is full
now since we saw him/it to us before."
"Yes", says the wife of the grower, "I knew that you/he/she could not be the moon."
Only to this moment, the sleigh came around the point with great speed,
and it brought sight a very bright but distant fire, far in front of them.
"Be a fire!" all of them exclaimed.
"But it is not in the direction of the village", it said Jonas.
"It has to be of the farm-house", it said the wife of the grower, "on the beach."
"No", said Jonas, "I think that it is on the ice."
It became very soon evident that the fire was on the ice. It was
clearly a great fire, although the distance did him/it seem rather small. It
it was a lot of diamond, and it flashed on tall; and a cloud of it illuminated
smoke rose from him, and floating street was to the toward north. The party in the
sleigh could perceive soon, also, a number of small, bright stains nearby
it that it seemed to be in motion on the fire. They looked as the
moons on the planet Jupiter, seen through a telescope.
"I wonder me what is", said Isabella.
"I suppose", said Jonas "that the boys are skating out, and this is a
you shoot on the ice that they has built."
"And is it that the boys that stir around?" Asked Oliver.
"Yes", said Jonas. "When they is near the fire, the light shines on
their faces."
As they rode on, it gradually became more evident that Jonases
you/he/she was corrected. The skaters' forms, as they was standing in front of the fire, or
come pushing above to him, it became more separate, and, in fact, the
sonorous sound of the skates soon it became audible. The horse, in the mean
time, it followed, with great speed, directly toward the fire. When them
arrived near the fire, the skaters entered around them the great numbers,
asking himself/herself/itself who was been able to come. Jonas asked where they found the wood
to build their fire.
"All along the beach", it said a great boy, with a long baton in his/her hand.
"We go and you find some more, boys" that he has added, "and makes on ours