“What are you doing?” he asked.
“I’m mending this dam’ roof. Remediando this dam’ teja.”
“Who told you to mend the roof?”
“The capataz and also the teniente.”
“Is that true?”
“Yes, my brave, it is true. Go you and ask them if you don’t believe me.”
“What do you say?”
“Go you and ask them, if you do not believe.”
“They did not say so to me, that the roof should be mended.”
“See here, brother: they said so to me. Do you get that? To me, that is me here, they dicoed that I should mend this dam’ roof; and I’m mending it; and when it’s ended, you can have the dam’ bits to scratch with.”