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黑 骏 马 The Black 黑 骏 马 My Early Home我的第一个家 我的第一个家 PAGE 2 PAGE 3 第一章 我的第一个家 Chapter 1 My Early Home 在一个牧场里，有一个池塘，池塘边上栽着一些柳树。小黑马白天在妈妈身边奔跑，天热了就在树阴下休息。 牧场有六匹小马驹，他们经常奔跑，有时还边跑边咬，而且还踢人。一天，小黑马的妈妈告诉他：那些小马驹以后都是拉大车的，没学过礼仪，但他是有教养的，要做一匹彬彬有礼的好马，不能咬人和踢人。 小黑马的主人对他很好，经常给他些好吃的。一天，一个叫迪克的耕童翻过篱笆摘黑莓吃，然后用石子和树枝赶他们玩，这一切被在隔壁的主人看到，他跳过来抓着迪克的胳膊打了他一耳光，并将他开除了。牧场照看马匹的老丹尼尔和主人一样和善，小黑马的日子过得很好。 T he first place that I can well remember was a large pleasant meadow with a pond of clear water in it. Some shady trees leaned over it, and rushes and water-lilies grew at the deep end. Over the hedge on one side we looked into a plowed field, and on the other we looked over a gate at our master’s house, which stood by the roadside; at the top of the meadow was a grove of fir trees, and at the bottom a running brook overhung by a steep bank. T While I was young I lived upon my mother’s milk, as I could not eat grass. In the daytime I ran by her side, and at night I lay down close by her. When it was hot we used to stand by the pond in the shade of the trees, and when it was cold we had a nice warm shed near the grove. As soon as I was old enough to eat grass my mother used to go out to work in the daytime, and come back in the evening. There were six young colts in the meadow besides me; they were older than I was; some were nearly as large as grown-up horses. I used to run with them, and had great fun; we used to gallop all together round and round the field as hard as we could go. Sometimes we had rather rough play, for they would frequently bite and kick as well as gallop. One day, when there was a good deal of kicking, my mother whinnied to me to come to her, and then she said: “I wish you to pay attention to what I am going to say to you. The colts who live here are very good colts, but they are cart-horse colts, and of course they have not learned manners. You have been well-bred and well-born; your father has a great name in these parts, an