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十月 October 周一，17日，开学第一天 Monday, 17th. The First Day of School 今天是开学第一天。我还没有从长假中缓过神来，就要上四年级了！许多家长来送孩子报名上学。街道上人来人往，学校里也熙熙攘攘，一年级学生那里更加乱糟糟。我发现许多同学和老师都有了变化，还碰见了以前的老师。我找到了自己的班级，却想着过去的假期和以前的老师，心中升起一丝 伤感。 T oday is the first day of school. The three months of vacation in the country have passed like a dream. This morning my mother took me to the Baretti schoolhouse to have me enter for the third elementary grade: I was thinking of the country, and went unwillingly. T The streets were swarming with boys: the two book-shops were thronged with fathers and mothers who were purchasing bags, portfolios, and copy-books, and in front of the school so many people had collected, that the beadle and the policeman found it hard to keep the entrance clear. Near the door, I felt myself touched on the shoulder: it was my master of the second grade, cheerful, as usual, and with his red hair ruffled. He said to me: “So we are to part forever, Enrico?” I knew it well, yet the words pained me. We made our way in with difficulty. Ladies, gentlemen, women of the people, workmen, officials, nuns, and servants, all leading boys with one hand, and holding the promotion books in the other, filled the anteroom and the stairs, making such a buzzing, that it seemed like entering a theatre. I was glad to see once more that large room on the ground floor, with the doors leading to the seven classes, where I had passed nearly every day for three years. There was a throng of teachers going and coming. My schoolmistress of the first upper class greeted me from the door of the classroom, and said: “Enrico, you are going to the floor above, this year. I shall not even see you pass by any more!” And she gazed sadly at me. The principal was surrounded by women who were much worried because there was no room for their sons; and it struck me that his beard was a little whiter than it had been last year. I found the boys had grown taller and stouter. On the ground floor, where the divisions had already