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El agua del baño empezó a correr, y cuando llegó al dormitorio las ropas se desprendieron de sus ganchos. La mujer quiso huir, pero la puerta estaba atrancada.
The water turned on in her little bathroom and the plug went in, and just about the time it began to overflow, all her clothes fell off their hooks. She went to run out of the room, but the door was stuck, and when she yanked on the handle it opened real quick and she spread out on the floor.
A la hora de almorzar, Jerónimo había cambiado: casa Haddy sin techo ni suelo, casa Maywit ídem, escalinata de Peaselee arrancada y rota, otras casas destejadas, bodega atrancada, almacén refrigerado atrancado y cubierto de estiércol, casa de baños atascada y llena de estiércol, bombas desmontadas... todo arruinado, dijo Padre, «en bien de la fumigación».
By lunchtime, Jeronimo was changed - Haddy house out top and bottom, Maywit house ditto, Peaselee stoop torn out and broken up, other houses unshingled, root cellar boarded, cold store boarded and manured, bathhouse plugged and manured, pumps tinkered apart - all of them wrecked, Father said, "in the interest of fumigation."
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