translation.ca: Mentre passava vora la casa on vivia Jeff Thatcher, veié una noia nova en el jardí, una exquisida criatura d'ulls blaus i cabell daurat, aconduit en dues llargues trenes, que duia una blanca túnica estival i uns pantalonets brodats.
translation.en: As he was passing by the house where Jeff Thatcher lived, he saw a new girl in the garden--a lovely little blue-eyed creature with yellow hair plaited into two long-tails, white summer frock and embroidered pan-talettes.