translation.ca: Després s'agenolla vora el foc, i escrigué penosament alguna cosa en cada un d'ells amb la seva quilla roja.
translation.en: Then he knelt by the fire and painfully wrote something upon each of these with his "red keel"; one he rolled up and put in his jacket pocket, and the other he put in Joe's hat and removed it to a little distance from the owner.