第一章 摩西和“赶牛人”.doc

第一章 摩西和“赶牛人” Chapter 1 Discover Moses and the Bulrushers 你看过《汤姆·索亚历险记》吗？书的结尾是汤姆和我把强盗窃藏在山洞里的六千块金洋找到了，法官撒切尔替我们放利每人每天得一块金洋，达格丝寡妇收我做她的干儿子，我受不了她的正经规矩就溜走了。汤姆·索亚打算组织一伙强盗，要我回到寡妇身边，先做体面人才能加入。 寡妇管我叫迷途羔羊，带我做饭前祷告，跟我讲摩西和“赶牛人”的故事，我对死去的人不感兴趣，我想抽烟，寡妇不让，可她自己闻鼻烟。 她妹妹瓦岑小姐是个很瘦的老姑娘，戴着一副眼镜，逼着我学拼音，并跟我讲好多规矩，我说我想去地狱，不想跟她上天堂。我问她汤姆·索亚能不能上天堂，她说不能。这样我又能和他在一起了。晚上祷告后，我上楼本打算想点高兴的事，但是远处猫头鹰的笑声和夜鹰的嚎声以及野鬼的叫声，弄得我非常沮丧。 远处，镇上的钟声响了十二下，我掏出烟斗抽上一袋烟，隐隐约约听见那边发出的猫叫声，汤姆·索亚在等着我呢！ OU don’t know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain’t no matter. That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly. There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth. That is nothing. I never seen anybody but lied one time or another, without it was Aunt Polly, or the widow, or maybe Mary. Aunt Polly—Tom’s Aunt Polly, she is梐nd Maryr, and the Widow Douglas is all told about in that book, which is mostly a true book, with some stretchers, as I said before. Now the way that the book winds up is this: Tom and me found the money that the robbers hid in the cave, and it made us rich. We got six thousand dollars apiece梐ll gold. It was an awful sight of money when it was piled up. Well, Judge Thatcher he took it 亚and put it out at interest, and it fetched us a dollar a day apiece all the year round梞ore than a body could tell what to do with. The Widow Douglas she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me; but it was rough living in the house all the time, considering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways; and so when I couldn’t stand it no longer I lit out. I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied. But Tom Sawyer he hunted me up and said he was going to start a band of robbers, and I might join if I would go back to the widow and be respectable. So I went back. The widow she cried over me, and called me a poor lost lamb, and she called me a lot of other names, too, but she ne