16 Four Sticky Little Boys

Four Sticky Little Boys On one Tuesday evening after Mr Twit had been up the ladder and smeared the tree with HUGTIGHT, four little boys crept into the garden to look at the monkeys. They didn't care about the thistles and stinging-nettles, not when there were monkeys to look at. After a while, they got tired of looking at the monkeys, so they explored further into the garden and found the ladder leaning against The Big Dead Tree. They decided to climb up it just for fun. There's nothing wrong with that. The next morning, when Mr Twit went out to collect the birds, he found four miserable little boys sitting in the tree, stuck as tight as could be by the seats of their pants to the branches. There were no birds because the presence of the boys had scared them away. Mr Twit was furious. 'As there are no birds for my pie tonight,' he shouted, 'then it'll have to be boys instead!' He started to climb the ladder. 'Boy

一个星期二的晚上，推特先生爬上梯子，在树上涂上HUGTIGHT后，四个小男孩爬进花园去看猴子。 当有猴子可以看的时候，他们就不关心蓟和荨麻了。 过了一会儿，他们厌倦了看猴子，于是他们向花园深处探索，发现梯子靠在那棵大死树上。 他们决定爬上去只是为了好玩。 这没什么不对的。 第二天早上，当特威特先生出去捡鸟时，他发现四个可怜的小男孩坐在树上，紧紧地抓住裤子的屁股，紧紧地贴在树枝上。 没有鸟，因为孩子们的出现把它们吓跑了。 推特先生非常愤怒。“既然今晚我的派没有鸟做，”他喊道，“那就只好用男孩做了!”他开始爬梯子。 的男孩

Pie might be better than Bird Pie,' he went on, grinning horribly. 'More meat and not so many tiny little bones!' The boys were terrified. 'He's going to boil us!' cried one of them.

“派可能比鸟派好，”他接着说，可怕地咧嘴一笑。 “多一点肉，少一点小骨头!”男孩们吓坏了。 “他要把我们煮了!”其中一个叫道。

'He'll stew us alive!' wailed the second one. 'He'll cook us with carrots!' cried the third. But the fourth little boy, who had more sense than the others, whispered, 'Listen, I've just had an idea. We are only stuck by the seats of our pants. So quick! Unbutton your pants and slip out of them and fall to the ground.' Mr Twit had reached the top of the ladder and was just about to make a grab for the nearest boy when they all suddenly tumbled out of the tree and ran for home with their naked bottoms winking at the sun.

“他会把我们活活煮死的!”第二个哭着说。 “他会用胡萝卜煮我们的!”第三个叫道。 但是第四个小男孩比其他三个都聪明，他小声说:“听着，我有个主意。 我们只是被裤子的座位卡住了。 那么快!解开裤子的扣子，从裤子里滑出来，倒在地上。”特威特先生已经爬到了梯子顶端，正准备抓住离他最近的一个男孩，这时他们突然从树上滚了下来，朝家跑去，光着屁股对着太阳眨着眼睛。