15 Hugtight Sticky Glue

Hugtight Sticky Glue Once a week, on Wednesdays, the Twits had Bird Pie for supper. Mr Twit caught the birds and Mrs Twit cooked them. Mr Twit was good at catching birds. On the day before Bird Pie day, he would put the ladder up against The Big Dead Tree and climb into the branches with a bucket of glue and a paint-brush. The glue he used was something called HUGTIGHT and it was stickier than any other glue in the world. He would paint it along the tops of all the branches and then go away.

每个星期的星期三，Twits一家的晚餐都会吃鸟派。 特威特先生抓了鸟，特威特太太煮了它们。 特威特先生擅长抓鸟。 在鸟派日的前一天，他会把梯子靠在大死树上，带着一桶胶水和一把画笔爬到树枝上。 他用的是一种叫HUGTIGHT的胶水，它比世界上任何一种胶水都要粘。 他会沿着所有树枝的顶部涂上它，然后离开。

As the sun went down, birds would fly in from all around to roost for the night in The Big Dead Tree. They didn't know, poor things, that the branches were all smeared with horrible HUGTIGHT. The moment they landed on a branch, their feet stuck and that was that. The next morning, which was Bird Pie day, Mr Twit would climb up the ladder again and grab all the wretched birds that were stuck to the tree. It didn't matter what kind they were – song thrushes, blackbirds, sparrows, crows, little jenny wrens, robins, anything – they all went into the pot for Wednesday's Bird Pie supper.

当太阳落山时，鸟儿会从四面八方飞来，在大枯树上栖息过夜。 可怜的孩子们，他们不知道树枝上沾满了可怕的HUGTIGHT。 他们一落在树枝上，脚就卡住了，就是这样。 第二天早上，是吃鸟派的日子，特维特先生又爬上梯子，把所有被粘在树上的可怜的鸟都抓起来。 不管它们是什么——画眉、画眉、麻雀、乌鸦、小燕尾鹩莺、知更鸟，什么都可以——它们都进了锅里，准备星期三的鸟派晚餐。