O cocheiro e as mulas
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E em pé, quando era mais pequeno, metia a cara no vidro, e via o cocheiro com as suas grandes botas, escanchado na mula da esquerda, e segurando a rédea da outra; na mão levava o chicote grosso e comprido.
And standing, when I was smaller, I put my face on the glass and saw the coachman with his big boots, astride the left mule, and holding the rein of the other; in his hand he carried the thick and long whip.
The narrator describes a childhood memory of watching a coachman from a window.
The narrator recalls a childhood memory of pressing his face against a window to watch a coachman riding a mule and holding the reins of another, with a thick whip in his hand.
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