C'était en effet autour de lui que tournait la herscheuse.
It was in fact around him that the putter was revolving.
Et il en donna une poignée a la herscheuse, qui l'engloutit goulument.
He gave a handful of it to the putter, who swallowed it greedily.
Depuis cinq grandes heures, la herscheuse et son galant se promenaient a travers la ducasse.
For five long hours the putter and her lover had been walking about the fair.
Cependant, les deux galants de la herscheuse furent sur le point de s'allonger des gifles.
The putter's two lovers, however, were on the point of coming to blows.
Ce dernier, bouleversé de la rencontre, avait eu un geste pour protéger la herscheuse, qui se serrait contre lui.
The latter, overwhelmed by this encounter, made a gesture as though to protect the putter, who was pressing herself against him.
Meme la herscheuse et les deux galibots ne roulaient plus, préparaient et apportaient les pièces du boisage.
Even the putter and the two trammers left off wheeling to prepare and bring pieces of timber.
Alors, des qu'il y avait une berline vide a remonter, le receveur donnait le signal, la herscheuse emballait sa berline pleine, dont le poids faisait monter l'autre, quand le freineur desserrait son frein.
Then, as soon as there was an empty tram to send back, the receiver gave the signal and the putter embarked her full tram, the weight of which made the other ascend when the brakesman loosened his brake.
Au relais, a quatre-vingts mètres de la taille, une autre herscheuse prenait la berline et la roulait a quatre-vingts mètres plus loin, jusqu'au pied du plan incliné, pour que le receveur l'expédiât avec celles qui descendaient des voies d'en haut.
At the relay, eighty metres from the cutting, another putter took the tram and pushed it eighty metres farther to the upbrow, so that the receiver could forward it with the others which came down from the upper galleries.
Comme la herscheuse s'était remise au roulage, ils l'appelèrent en s'irritant de son zele: si le charbon avait des pieds, il sortirait tout seul.
As the putter had gone back to the haulage they called her, irritated at her zeal: let the coal take care of itself.
Vrai, tu refuses? dit-il a la herscheuse, de son air provocant.
"Well, do you refuse?" he said to the putter, in his provoking way.
Alors, il haussait les épaules, plein d'une indifférence tranquille. Une herscheuse, pour quoi faire?
Then he shrugged his shoulders with tranquil indifference, What should he do with a putter?
Silencieux, Étienne emporta sa lampe et monta au puits, avec la herscheuse.
Étienne silently took his lamp and went towards the shaft with the putter.
C'était déja derriere la fosse, quarante-trois ans plus tôt, que le père Bonnemort avait pris sa femme, une herscheuse si chétive, qu'il la posait sur une berline, pour l'embrasser a l'aise.
It was now forty-three years since Father Bonnemort had taken his wife behind the pit; she was a putter, so slight that he had placed her on a tram to embrace her at ease.
